Agenda: General election, Dixons Carphone, Superdry and Ted Baker

Watches of Switzerland

The luxury watch retailer posts its interim results on Tuesday. The business, which made its stock market debut with a £647m valuation in May will hope to continue its strong run of results as it comes into the festive season. The retailer recorded a 17.8% jump in group revenue to £209.4m in its first quarter in August.

McColl’s

The convenience store specialist will post its pre-close trading update on Tuesday. Shareholders will hope the disruption caused by the collapse of Palmer & Harvey has run its course after the business reported a 19% fall in adjusted EBITDA to £13m at the half-year mark, while sales were broadly flat at £611.1m.

The business said despite the disruption it was confident in its long-term strategy.

Mothercare

The beleaguered specialist retailer will post its interim results on Tuesday. Mothercare’s UK division tumbled into administration last month, with 2,800 jobs set to be axed across stores and head office as the business is wound down.

The retailer’s international division, which is still profitable, was not included in the administration.

Kantar-Nielsen

Kantar and Nielsen will post their respective grocery sales figures on Tuesday.

Grocers will hope that spend will increase in the build-up to the festive season following a sluggish October when sales across the wider grocery market grew 1%, according to Kantar.

Ted Baker

The fashion retailer will post a third-quarter trading update on Wednesday. The once strong performer will hope to reassure nervy investors with its results, having uncovered a £25m stock overstatement earlier this month. Ted Baker also called in consultancy firm AlixPartners this month to help with a review of operations following a difficult year that has seen the business issue three profit warnings.

Dixons Carphone

The electricals retail group will report its interim results on Thursday. The business will be under pressure to indicate how it plans to grow profits and bolster sales momentum despite its flagging mobile division. The retailer, which posted a 2% uplift in UK like-for-like sales in its first-quarter results in September, but recorded a 22% slide in pre-tax profits to £298m at its full-year results in June.

Superdry

The fashion retailer will post its interim results on Thursday. The business, which swung to a pre-tax loss of £85.4m in its full-year results in July, has blamed its subsequent 11.3% fall in sales to £376.8m in its first quarter on “legacy issues”. Julian Dunkerton, who was made chief executive on a permanent basis in October, will hope to show shareholders his product design refresh and focus on social media to win back relevance with a younger audience is bearing fruit.

Ocado

The online grocer-cum-technology specialist will update the market with details of fourth-quarter trading performance on Thursday.

Ocado signed another landmark partnership, with Japanese grocer Aeon, at the end of last month, but its share price has dipped since after it launched a £500m bond issue to fund its tech commitments.

Tie-ups with the likes of Kroger, Sobeys and Casino helped its tech division – Ocado Solutions – rake in £122.7m during the first half of its financial year.

In July, Ocado said it expected full-year revenue growth of 10% to 15% from its online grocery business but cautioned that Solutions revenue would slow as a result of Morrisons temporarily handing back capacity at Ocado’s Erith warehouse.

General election

The UK goes to the polls on Thursday in one of the most important elections in the country’s history.

The Conservatives had an 11-point lead in the polls on Friday as Boris Johnson seeks to secure a majority in Parliament.

Johnson, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and Liberal Democrats leader Jo Swinson have been split on the crucial issue of Brexit during the campaign trail.

None of the three main parties has offered much by way of potential relief for retailers in their manifestos, despite ongoing calls for the government to revamp the business rates system and loosen planning laws to help revive the high street.