Solna, Sweden, 2017-Oct-11 — /EPR Retail News/ — Sales in the Swedish ICA stores increased by 4.4% in September 2017 compared with the corresponding month last year. Sales in like-for-like stores increased by 3.6%.
| September 2017 | January – September 2017 | |||||
| Store sales excl. VAT |
Mkr | Change all stores | Change like-for-like | Mkr | Change all stores | Change like-for-like |
| Maxi ICA Stormarknad | 2,773 | 6.0% | 5.7% | 25,659 | 2.9% | 2.9% |
| ICA Kvantum | 2,219 | 5.0% | 2.5% | 20,582 | 3.8% | 1.8% |
| ICA Supermarket | 2,788 | 3.4% | 2.9% | 25,904 | 2.5% | 1.9% |
| ICA Nära | 1,364 | 2.5% | 2.4% | 12,837 | 1.8% | 1.9% |
| Total | 9,144 | 4.4% | 3.6% | 84,981 | 2.8% | 2.2% |
In September 2017, sales in the Swedish ICA stores totalled SEK 9,144 million excluding VAT, which is an increase of 4.4% compared with the same month in the previous year. Sales in January-September 2017 amounted to SEK 84,981 million, an increase of 2.8% compared with the previous year.
ICA Gruppen estimates the calendar effect for September to be 0%.
At 30 September 2017, the number of ICA stores in Sweden was 1,287. Store sales for October will be published on 8 November 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
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Source: ICA Gruppen