Sales in ICA stores increased by 6.7% in December 2020 compared with the corresponding month last year. Sales in like-for-like stores increased by 6.6% compared to last year.

December January -
2020 December
2020
Store sales MSEK Change Change MSEK Change Change
excl. VAT all like all like-for
stores -for stores -like
-like
Maxi ICA 4,229 8.1% 7.2% 42,092 10.5% 9.3%
Stormarknad
ICA Kvantum 3,037 5.5% 6.0%      31,719 7.4% 7.0%
ICA 3,348 4.9% 4.7%  37,454 3.6% 4.6%
Supermarket
ICA Nära 1,686 9.1% 10.7%  19,419 6.9% 7.2%
Total 12,300 6.7% 6.6% 130,684 7.2% 7.0%

In December 2020, sales in ICA stores totalled SEK 12,300 million excluding VAT, which is an increase of 6.7% compared with the same month in the previous year. Sales in January-December 2020 amounted to SEK 130,684 million, an increase of 7.2% compared with the previous year.

ICA Gruppen estimates the calendar effect for December to be +2.0%.

On 31 December 2020 the number of ICA stores was 1,266. Store sales for January will be published on 8 February at 08:45 CET.

To see all publication dates in 2021, 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,c3266318

https://mb.cision.com/Main/7955/3266318/1357942.pdf

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