Sales in ICA stores increased by 5.4% in August 2020 compared with the corresponding month last year. Sales in like-for-like stores increased by 5.2% compared to last year.

August January -
2020 August
2020
Store sales MSEK Change Change MSEK Change Change
excl. VAT all like all like-for
stores -for stores -like
-like
Maxi ICA 3,529 8.9% 7.5% 27,718 11.0% 9.6%
Stormarknad
ICA Kvantum 2,643 4.8% 4.4%   21,003 8.1% 7.3%

ICA 3,235 2.1% 3.2% 25,074 3.2% 4.5%
Supermarket
ICA Nära 1,732 5.7% 5.7%  13,091 6.3% 6.4%
Total 11,139 5.4% 5.2% 86,885 7.3% 7.0%

In August 2020, sales in ICA stores totalled SEK 11,139 million excluding VAT, which is an increase of 5.4% compared with the same month in the previous year. Sales in January-August 2020 amounted to SEK 86,885 million, an increase of 7.3% compared with the previous year.

ICA Gruppen estimates the calendar effect for August to be -2.0%.

At 31 August 2020 the number of ICA stores was 1,269. Store sales for September will be published on 8 October 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---august-sales-figures,c3190061

https://mb.cision.com/Main/7955/3190061/1303396.pdf

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