Sales in ICA stores increased by 5.0% in January compared with the corresponding month last year. Sales in like-for-like stores increased by 4.8% compared to last year.

  January 2020  
Store sales MSEK Change all stores Change like-for-like
excl. VAT
Maxi ICA Stormarknad 3,055 6.1% 5.4%
ICA Kvantum 2,445 6.8% 5.1%
ICA Supermarket 2,882 2.4% 3.8%
ICA Nära 1,422 5.0% 4.9%
Total 9,803 5.0%  4.8%
           

In January, sales in ICA stores totalled SEK 9,803 million excluding VAT, which is an increase of 5.0% compared with the same month in the previous year.

ICA Gruppen estimates the calendar effect for January to be +1.4%.

At 31 January, the number of ICA stores was 1,269. Store sales for February will be published on 9 March 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---january-sales-figures,c3030713

https://mb.cision.com/Main/7955/3030713/1190392.pdf

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