Solna, Sweden, 2017-Nov-11 — /EPR Retail News/ — Sales in the Swedish ICA stores increased by 3.4% in October 2017 compared with the corresponding month last year. Sales in like-for-like stores increased by 2.6%.
| October 2017 | January – October 2017 | |||||
| Store sales excl. VAT |
Mkr | Change all stores | Change like-for-like | Mkr | Change all stores | Change like-for-like |
| Maxi ICA Stormarknad | 2,785 | 3.3% | 3.0% | 28,444 | 2.9% | 2.9% |
| ICA Kvantum | 2,266 | 4.2% | 1.7% | 22,847 | 3.9% | 1.8% |
| ICA Supermarket | 2,812 | 3.1% | 2.9% | 28,690 | 2.5% | 2.0% |
| ICA Nära | 1,359 | 2.6% | 2.7% | 14,222 | 1.9% | 2.0% |
| Total | 9,222 | 3.4% | 2.6% | 94,204 | 2.9% | 2.2% |
In October 2017, sales in the Swedish ICA stores totalled SEK 9,222 million excluding VAT, which is an increase of 3.4% compared with the same month in the previous year. Sales in January-October 2017 amounted to SEK 94,204 million, an increase of 2.9% compared with the previous year.
ICA Gruppen estimates the calendar effect for October to be -0.5%.
At 31 October 2017, the number of ICA stores in Sweden was 1,283. Store sales for November will be published on 8 December 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