Solna, Sweden, 2017-Sep-08 — /EPR Retail News/ — Sales in the Swedish ICA stores increased by 3.4% in August 2017 compared with the corresponding month last year. Sales in like-for-like stores increased by 2.6%.
| August 2017 | January –August 2017 | |||||
| Store sales excl. VAT |
Mkr | Change all stores | Change like-for-like | Mkr | Change all stores | Change like-for-like |
| Maxi ICA Stormarknad | 2,952 | 3.7% | 3.6% | 22,884 | 2.5% | 2.5% |
| ICA Kvantum | 2,363 | 3.7% | 1.4% | 18,362 | 3.7% | 1.7% |
| ICA Supermarket | 3,011 | 3.0% | 2.5% | 23,115 | 2.3% | 1.8% |
| ICA Nära | 1,529 | 2.7% | 2.8% | 11,473 | 1.8% | 1.9% |
| Total | 9,856 | 3.4% | 2.6% | 75,834 | 2.6% | 2.0% |
In August 2017, sales in the Swedish ICA stores totalled SEK 9,856 million excluding VAT, which is an increase of 3.4% compared with the same month in the previous year. Sales in January-August 2017 amounted to SEK 75,834 million, an increase of 2.6% compared with the previous year.
ICA Gruppen estimates the calendar effect for August to be +0.5%.
At 31 August 2017, the number of ICA stores in Sweden was 1,290. Store sales for September will be published on 9 October 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.
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ICA Gruppen press service, Telephone number: +46 10 422 52 52
SOURCE: ICA Gruppen