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RadioShack
Electronics retailer that filed two bankruptcies. Standard General acquired 1,743 stores for $26.2M but failed to revive the brand.
Also known as Radio Shack, Tandy Corporation
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Reviewed operating findings or a classified operating outcome are available.
Record updated Sept. 4, 2026
Current ownership
Current owner not established
This record does not identify a current owner. That absence is a gap in the record, not a conclusion about ownership.
1 ownership record has an unresolved current/former status.
Ownership and transaction history
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March 1, 2017
Operations ceased
Operating outcome
Nov. 19, 2020
Revival or successor activity recorded
Operating outcome
Date not recorded
What happened under and after ownership
Operating outcome
Ceased operations, then returned
Filed a second Chapter 11 in March 2017 and closed the large majority of its US corporate stores.
Retail Ecommerce Ventures bought the brand in November 2020 and relaunched it as an e-commerce site; the Unicomer Group acquired the worldwide RadioShack business in May 2023.
Operates today as radioshack.com and through third-party retailers, under Unicomer Group ownership; no RadioShack physical stores remain.
- Founded
- 1921
- Sponsor at closure
- Standard General (via General Wireless Operations)
- Business Wire · 2020 · REV brand acquisition
- Unicomer Group (company primary) · 2023 · Unicomer Group acquired the global RadioShack brand and IP in May 2023
- TWICE (trade publication) · current e-commerce operations under the RadioShack brand
- Wikipedia · RadioShack founded 1921 by brothers Theodore and Milton Deutschmann
- NPR · 2017 · hedge fund Standard General, via affiliate General Wireless, owned RadioShack's remaining stores when General Wireless filed the March 2017 second bankruptcy
What we do not know
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- No current public ownership assessment has been published.
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