Solna, Sweden, 2016-Oct-10 — /EPR Retail News/ — Sales in the Swedish ICA stores increased by 3.0% in September 2016 compared with the corresponding month last year. Sales in like-for-like stores increased by 2.6%.
| September 2016 | January – September 2016 | |||||
| Store sales, excl. VAT | SEKm | Change all stores |
Change like-for-like |
SEKm | Change all stores |
Change like-for-like |
| Maxi ICA Stormarknad | 2,617 | 3.2% | 2.8% | 24,939 | 3.4% | 2.6% |
| ICA Kvantum | 2,123 | 2.8% | 2.2% | 19,908 | 2.8% | 2.4% |
| ICA Supermarket | 2,686 | 2.6% | 2.3% | 25,193 | 2.2% | 2.1% |
| ICA Nära | 1,331 | 3.7% | 3.7% | 12,604 | 3.2% | 3.5% |
| Total | 8,757 | 3.0% | 2.6% | 82,645 | 2.8% | 2.5% |
In September 2016, sales in the Swedish ICA stores totalled SEK 8,757 million excluding VAT, which is an increase of 3.0% compared with the same month in the previous year. Sales in January-September 2016 amounted to SEK 82,645 million, an increase of 2.8% compared with the previous year.
ICA Gruppen estimates the calendar effect for September to be +1.9%.
At 30 September 2016, the number of ICA stores in Sweden was 1,295. Store sales for October will be published on 8 November 2016 at 08.45 CET.
To see all publication dates in 2016, please visit ICA Gruppen’s website http://www.icagruppen.se/en/investors/calendar.
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 time 08:45 on Monday October 10, 2016
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Source: ICA Gruppen