Sales in ICA stores increased by 2.9% in December 2019 compared with the corresponding month last year. Sales in like-for-like stores increased by 2.7% compared to last year.

  December January
2019 - Decembe
r 2019
Store sales MSEK Change Change MSEK Change Change
excl. VAT all like all like-for
stores -for stores -like
-like
Maxi ICA 3 912 3.9% 3.3% 38 080 4.3% 3.9%
Stormarknad
ICA Kvantum 2 879 3.4% 2.0%   29 524 3.6% 2.8%

ICA 3 192 1.2% 2.5% 36 169 2.0% 2.4%
Supermarket
ICA Nära 1 546 2.9% 2.8%  18 168 2.0% 2.6%
Total 11 529 2.9%  2.7% 121 941 3.1% 3.0%
                 

In December 2019, sales in ICA stores totalled SEK 11,529 million excluding VAT, which is an increase of 2.9% compared with the same month in the previous year. Sales in January-December 2019 amounted to SEK 121,941 million, an increase of 3.1% compared with the previous year.

ICA Gruppen estimates the calendar effect for December to be -0.4%.

At 31 December 2019, the number of ICA stores was 1,270. Store sales for January will be published on 10 February 2020 at 08:45 CET.

To see all publication dates in 2020, please visit ICA Gruppen's website http://www.icagruppen.se/en/investors/calendar.

 

For more information
ICA Gruppen press service, telephone number: +46 (0)10 422 52 52

https://news.cision.com/ica-gruppen-ab/r/swedish-ica-stores---december-sales-figures,c3005201

https://mb.cision.com/Main/7955/3005201/1171930.pdf

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