Solna, Sweden, 2015-10-9 — /EPR Retail News/ — Sales in the Swedish ICA stores rose by 4.1% in September 2015 compared with the corresponding month last year. Sales in like-for-like stores increased by 3.4%.
| September 2015 | January – September 2015 | |||||
| Store sales, excl. VAT | SEKm | Change all stores |
Change like-for-like |
SEKm | Change all stores |
Change like-for-like |
| Maxi ICA Stormarknad | 2,537 | 6.9% | 4.2% | 24,121 | 5.9% | 3.6% |
| ICA Kvantum | 2,065 | 4.0% | 4.2% | 19,372 | 4.6% | 3.5% |
| ICA Supermarket | 2,621 | 2.6% | 2.3% | 24,678 | 2.1% | 2.4% |
| ICA Nära | 1,280 | 2.2% | 2.7% | 12,182 | 2.2% | 2.6% |
| Total | 8,503 | 4.1% | 3.4% | 80,353 | 3.8% | 3.0% |
In September 2015, sales in the Swedish ICA stores totalled SEK 8,503 million excluding VAT, which is an increase of 4.1% compared with the same month in the previous year. Sales in January-September 2015 amounted to SEK 80,353 million, an increase of 3.8% compared with the previous year.
At 30 September 2015, the number of ICA stores in Sweden was 1,304.
Store sales for October will be published on 9 November 2015 at 08.45 CET. To see all publication dates in 2015, please visit ICA Gruppen’s website http://www.icagruppen.se/en/investors/calendar.
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ICA Gruppen discloses the information provided herein pursuant to the Securities Market Act and/or the Financial Instruments Trading Act. The information was submitted for publication at 08.45 CET on Thursday, 8 October 2015.