Swedish ICA stores – March sales figures
Sales in ICA stores decreased by 2.8% in March 2019 compared with the corresponding month last year. Sales in like-for-like stores decreased by 3.0%.
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January – March 2019 | January – March 2019 | ||||
| Store sales excl. VAT |
MSEK | Change all stores | Changelike-for-like | MSEK | Change all stores | Changelike-for-like |
| Maxi ICA Stormarknad | 3,085 | -3.3% | -4.3% | 8,661 | 1.5% | 0.5% |
| ICA Kvantum | 2,444 | -3.6% | -3.5% | 6,905 | 0.5% | 0.6% |
| ICA Supermarket | 2,961 | -2.1% | -2.4% | 8,446 | 1.1% | 0.7% |
| ICA Nära | 1,469 | -1.8% | -0.9% | 4,135 | 0.4% | 1.6% |
| Total | 9,959 | -2.8% | -3.0% | 28,147 | 1.0% | 0.7% |
In March 2019, sales in ICA stores totalled SEK 9,959 million excluding VAT, which is a decrease of 2.8% compared with the same month in the previous year. Sales in January-March 2019 amounted to SEK 28,147 million, an increase of 1.0% compared with the previous year.
ICA Gruppen estimates the calendar effect for March to be -5.3%, which is mainly explained by Easter being in April this year, while it was in March last year.
At 31 March 2019, the number of ICA stores was 1,274. Store sales for April will be published on 9 May 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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ICA Gruppen AB (publ) is a leading retail company with a focus on food and health. The Group includes ICA Sweden and Rimi Baltic which mainly conduct grocery retail, ICA Real Estate which owns and manages properties, ICA Bank which offers financial services and Apotek Hjärtat which conducts pharmacy operations. The Group also includes Hemtex. For more information see icagruppen.se
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