Boxclever (styled as “boxclever”) is a British electronic and domestic appliance rental chain that was founded in 2000 by the merger of

Radio Rentals Radio Rentals was formed in 1930Radio Rentals Staff Handbook in Brighton, Sussex, UK to rent out radio sets by Percy Perring-Thoms with a turnover in the first year of £780 (). It later offered televisions and ultimately video recorders for re ...

and Granada Rentals. The company originally operated through

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stores but later moved to an online-only service. The company was sold to

WestLB WestLB AG (derived from ''Westdeutsche Landesbank'', i.e. "Western German state Bank") was a European commercial bank based in Düsseldorf, Germany which was mainly owned by the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Landesbanks are a group of pa ...

and went into

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in June 2003, causing WestLB to register their €650 million bad debt charge. The company was bought out of administration in January 2005 by Fortress Investment Group for £135 million. Fortress and Cerberus sold the business to Weight Partners in May 2011.

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