Sales in ICA stores increased by 8.9% in October 2020 compared with the corresponding month last year. Sales in like-for-like stores also increased by 8.9% compared to last year.

October January -
2020 October
2020
Store sales MSEK Change Change MSEK Change Change
excl. VAT all like all like-for
stores -for stores -like
-like
Maxi ICA 3,471 12.6% 11.6% 34,411 11.0% 9.6%
Stormarknad
ICA Kvantum 2,657 9.0% 9.0%   26,141 8.1% 7.4%

ICA 3,105 5.0% 6.1% 31,151 3.5% 4.7%
Supermarket
ICA Nära 1,584 9.0% 8.8%  16,213 6.6% 6.7%
Total 10,817 8.9% 8.9% 107,916 7.4% 7.2%

In October 2020, sales in ICA stores totalled SEK 10,817 million excluding VAT, which is an increase of 8.9% compared with the same month in the previous year. Sales in January- October 2020 amounted to SEK 107,916 million, an increase of 7.4% compared with the previous year.

ICA Gruppen estimates the calendar effect for September to be +1.8%.

On 31 October 2020 the number of ICA stores was 1,267. Store sales for November will be published on 8 December 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---october-sales-figures,c3232858

https://mb.cision.com/Main/7955/3232858/1331757.pdf

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