Dixons chief executive John Clare said there was a mixed outlook for PC sales.
Despite the fall in sales, Dixons also said it believed its market share was improving.
Dixons Retail changed its name from DSG International at the end of last year.
Some analysts took Dixons' performance as proof that the much-heralded slowdown in consumer spending had arrived.
Meanwhile Dixons fell on fears the electrical retailer may cut its profit outlook on Thursday.
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Dixons' share price fell 2.8% on Tuesday, when rumours of poor Christmas trading results first emerged.
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By all accounts, Browett did an excellent job in turning around Dixons under bad economic conditions.
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Mr Browett left British electronics chain Dixons to take up his post with Apple in April this year.
"There wasn't anything particularly exciting for Dixons to be selling, " added Mr Rowland.
In Britain Dixons has been followed by similarly familiar firms such as W.H.
She was in the main building, but Kyle and his classmates were hunkered down in another building, the Dixons said.
He held senior positions at Dixons between 1982 and 1987 before becoming group finance director at Redlands, the building materials company.
Dixons raised its final dividend to 4.25p, making a total for the year of 5.5p, which compares to last year's 4.6p.
Under the plans, Dixons became an online retail operation with its 190 outlets rebranded as Currys.digital along with branches of Currys.
Dixons's Freeserve enjoys a special advantage that Libertysurf will have to do without: a generous cut of the increased telephone bills.
Mr. Browett had run struggling U.K. electronics retailer Dixons Retail and had international experience that fit with Apple's continuing global retail expansion.
Dixons, one of Britain's biggest electrical retailers, has launched a free Internet access service, as have such copycats as Tesco, a supermarket chain.
He was replaced in April 2012 by John Browett, formerly of U.K. retailer Dixons Retail PLC, who himself stepped down a mere six months later.
The tablets are arriving on shelves in John Lewis, Argos, Asda, Dixons, Sainsbury, Waitrose, Blackwell's and Foyles and they are also available to purchase through www.nook.co.uk.
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"Consumer confidence across some of our markets is fragile and we expect it to continue to be so through much of 2011, " said Dixons' chief executive John Browett.
Sales fell 25% at Dixons' troubled French online retailer Pixmania.
Browett had been chief executive of British electronics retailer, Dixons.
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Mr Clare refused to comment on the search for a replacement for Dixons chairman Sir Stanley Kalms, who is retiring from the business he built up after 30 years.
The company, Gray explains, runs large-format stores, such as those of Best Buy in the U.S. or Dixons in the U.K., and is taking market share away from smaller retailers.
To date the Commission has said it is investigating large players in the warranty market such as Dixons, Argos, Littlewoods, and insurance companies Cornhill, Landmark, Pinnacle and London General, among other companies.
Dixons bought out the remaining shares in Pixmania last year in an attempt to turn the business around, and has been forced to write off much of the value of its investment.
Bleak warnings have sounded from such broad-based supermarket groups as Carrefour in France and Metro in Germany, from Federated Department Stores in America and from specialists such as Dixons, a British electronics chain.
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Shares of Comet's rivals rose on news of the planned administration, with Dixons Retail, which owns PC World and Currys, jumping 15% as investors speculated that a major competitor could be removed from the market.
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