Now that the main summer holiday period is over the reporting season kicks off again in earnest next week, when Dixons Carphone is among those updating.

Now that the main summer holiday period is over the reporting season kicks off again in earnest next week, when Dixons Carphone is among those updating.

Next Tuesday, newly merged Dixons Carphone will issue a quarterly update – its first since Dixons and Carphone Warehouse teamed up in August.

When the deal went live the retailer’s bosses were keen to show they would move fast to make good on the promise of the deal and, on the first formal day of trading, Carphone shop-in-shops opened in a raft of Dixons’ Currys and PC World stores.

Next week’s update covers a period before the two retailers combined, so as well as their respective trading much of the interest will be in the mood music.

The hope will be that the bullish outlook that accompanied the deal is maintained.

Dixons Carphone shares got a big boost this week when it emerged that Vodafone is cutting its links with rival Phones 4U.

That should further bolster Dixons Carphone’s strength in the key smartphone category. The growing use of such devices and the new ways in which they are being used of course provided much of the logic of the merger.

There will be more detail on Dixons Carphone’s plans next month, when the retailer is expected to hold a strategy day. Tuesday’s update should pique interest in what that may hold and in the business generally.

Vodafone hangs up on Phones 4u and ups distribution with Dixons Carphone