Solna, Sweden, 2017-Aug-09 — /EPR Retail News/ — Sales in the Swedish ICA stores increased by 1.9% in July 2017 compared with the corresponding month last year. Sales in like-for-like stores increased by 1.2%.
| July 2017 | January –July 2017 | |||||
| Store sales excl. VAT |
Mkr | Change all stores | Change like-for-like | Mkr | Change all stores | Change like-for-like |
| Maxi ICA Stormarknad | 2,943 | 2.1% | 2.1% | 19,931 | 2.3% | 2.3% |
| ICA Kvantum | 2,301 | 2.9% | 0.7% | 15,983 | 3.6% | 1.6% |
| ICA Supermarket | 3,128 | 1.8% | 1.2% | 20,104 | 2.2% | 1.7% |
| ICA Nära | 1,657 | 0.1% | 0.4% | 9,943 | 1.6% | 1.7% |
| Total | 10,029 | 1.9% | 1.2% | 65,962 | 2.5% | 1.9% |
In July 2017, sales in the Swedish ICA stores totalled SEK 10,029 million excluding VAT, which is an increase of 1.9% compared with the same month in the previous year. Sales in January-July 2017 amounted to SEK 65,962 million, an increase of 2.5% compared with the previous year.
ICA Gruppen estimates the calendar effect for July to be -1.3%.
At 31 July 2017, the number of ICA stores in Sweden was 1,290. Store sales for August will be published on 8 September 2017 at 08.45 CET.
To see all publication dates in 2017, please visit ICA Gruppen’s website http://www.icagruppen.se/en/investors/calendar.
For more information:
ICA Gruppen press service
Telephone number: +46 10 422 52 52
Source: ICA Gruppen