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

September January -
2020 September
2020
Store sales MSEK Change Change  MSEK Change Change   
excl. VAT all  like all  like-for
stores -for stores -like
-like
Maxi ICA 3,222 9.1% 8.1% 30,940 10.8% 9.4%
Stormarknad
ICA Kvantum 2,481 7.1% 6.9%       7.9% 7.2%
23,484
ICA 2,972 3.9% 4.8% 28,046 3.3% 4.6%
Supermarket
ICA Nära 1,538 7.0% 6.7%  14,629 6.4% 6.4%
Total 10,213 6.7% 6.6% 97,099 7.2% 7.0%

In September 2020, sales in ICA stores totalled SEK 10,213 million excluding VAT, which is an increase of 6.7% compared with the same month in the previous year. Sales in January- September 2020 amounted to SEK 97,099 million, an increase of 7.2% compared with the previous year.

ICA Gruppen estimates the calendar effect for September to be +0.2%.

On 30 September 2020 the number of ICA stores was 1,269. Store sales for October will be published on 9 November 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---september-sales-figures,c3212196

https://mb.cision.com/Main/7955/3212196/1316210.pdf

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