Electrical goods and mobile phone retailer Dixons Carphone has said that sales were strong in its first full year of trading as one entity, with like-for-like revenue up 6% and market share gains across electricals and mobile in the UK & Ireland, Nordics and Greece.

In a statement, group chief executive Sebastian James said: “Nearly a year into our merger, I am very pleased to be posting such a strong first full year trading statement for our combined Dixons Carphone Group.

On the integration, our teams should be very proud of the progress that we have made. A very committed group of people has achieved this; it has required not just hard work, but also pragmatism and a willingness to roll up sleeves and get stuck in. By the autumn, in the UK, Ireland and Sweden, we will have moved our head offices, begun moving our logistics and our repair centres, built integrated management teams and opened almost 280 new mobile stores. This is tricky to achieve - to say the least - and I would like to record my thanks to the teams for making it look so comparatively easy.

“It is a truism that the time to fix the roof is when the sun is shining, and we will pursue continued investment in the business this year to do just that. We are making excellent progress but there is still much to do, and many areas of the business that we want to improve further. Delivery options, IT investment, extending our free warranty programme, further training for our colleagues, Norwegian pricing and others are in our sights to make us stronger in the long term.

“Also, I am really pleased that we have launched our new mobile virtual network operator, iD. So far it is doing everything that we hoped it would, and some of the features we plan for the summer are genuinely unique. Finally, in the CWS business, the management has worked hard to build on our already strong pipeline, which is now looking quite exciting and which I look forward to talking more about in due course."