In 1957, the Darty family – the father and his three sons, Natan, Marcel and Bernard – managed a small store of textiles.

This entity increased in size through acquisitions and by the beginning of 2003 included Darty and But in France, Comet in the United Kingdom, BCC in the Netherlands, Vanden Borre in Belgium and Datart in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

[4] In July 2007, the company bought Menaje Del Hogar, an electrical retail chain based in Spain.

[6] In 2012, the company completed the sale of Comet Group, which they sold for £2 to OpCapita, and paid the purchaser a sweetener of £50 million to take the loss-making venture away.

It had sourcing offices based in Paris and Hong Kong, as well as a wholly owned wholesaler of electrical accessories, Dacem, which supplied all of Darty's European operations.