High growth and good profitability
The second quarter of the year was favourably affected mainly by Willys’ continued strong performance as well as by Axfood Snabbgross’s profitable growth. We continue to take market shares and delivered better earnings than last year. We did this at the same time that we are making a number of future-oriented investments in the store network, e-commerce and logistics solutions for the future.President and CEO Klas Balkow’s comments on the interim report for the second quarter 2019: “Our sales growth of 6.7% is proof that our various food concepts are consolidating already strong