Swedish ICA stores – April figures
Sales in ICA stores increased by 11.1% in April 2019 compared with the corresponding month last year. Sales in like-for-like stores increased by 10.9%.
| April 2019 | January – April 2019 | |||||
| Store sales excl. VAT |
MSEK | Change all stores | Change like-for-like | MSEK | Change all stores | Changelike-for-like |
| Maxi ICA Stormarknad | 3,250 | 13.6% | 12.5% | 11,911 | 4.6% | 3.5% |
| ICA Kvantum | 2,503 | 9.9% | 10.4% | 9,408 | 2.8% | 3.0% |
| ICA Supermarket | 3,076 | 9.9% | 9.6% | 11,522 | 3.3% | 3.1% |
| ICA Nära | 1,541 | 10.1% | 10.9% | 5,677 | 2.9% | 3.8% |
| Total | 10,371 | 11.1% | 10.9% | 38,518 | 3.5% | 3.3% |
In April 2019, sales in ICA stores totalled SEK 10,371 million excluding VAT, which is an increase of 11.1% compared with the same month in the previous year. Sales in January-April 2019 amounted to SEK 38,518 million, an increase of 3.5% compared with the previous year.
ICA Gruppen estimates the calendar effect for April to be +5.5%, which is mainly explained by Easter being in April this year, while it was in March last year.
At 30 April 2019, the number of ICA stores was 1,272. Store sales for May will be published on 11 June 2019 at 08:45 CET.
To see all publication dates in 2019, please visit ICA Gruppen’s website http://www.icagruppen.se/en/investors/calendar.
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