Swedish ICA stores – February sales figures
Sales in the Swedish ICA stores rose by 1.7% in February 2014 compared with the corresponding month last year. In like-for-like stores the sales increase was 1.1% during the month.
| February | Year to date | |||||
| Store sales excl. VAT |
SEKm | Change all stores |
Change like-for-like |
SEKm | Change all stores |
Change like-for-like |
| Maxi ICA Stormarknad | 2,190 | 3.2% | 2.2% | 4,558 | 3.7% | 2.7% |
| ICA Kvantum | 1,826 | 2.8% | 1.6% | 3,804 | 3.7% | 2.5% |
| ICA Supermarket | 2,360 | 0.7% | 0.0% | 4,890 | 1.7% | 1.0% |
| ICA Nära | 1,130 | -0.5% | 0.3% | 2,320 | 0.4% | 1.3% |
| Total | 7,506 | 1.7% | 1.1% | 15,572 | 2.6% | 1.9% |
In February 2014, sales in the Swedish ICA stores totalled SEK 7,506 million excluding VAT, which is an increase of 1.7% compared with the same month in the previous year. Year to date sales have increased by 2.6% to SEK 15,572 million compared to 2013.
At 28 February 2014 the number of ICA stores in Sweden totalled 1,321. The number of stores was unchanged during the month.
Store sales for March will be published on 8 April 2014 at 08.45. CET. To see all publication dates in 2014, please visit ICA Gruppen’s website http://www.icagruppen.se/en/investor-relations/calendar/.
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