Swedish ICA stores – March sales figures
Sales in the Swedish ICA stores fell by 4.9% in March 2014 compared with the corresponding month last year. In like-for-like stores the sales decrease was 5.3%. Easter is in April in 2014 compared with in March in 2013. Since Easter is a key holiday in terms of sales, the calendar effect had a negative impact on sales compared with the previous year.
| March | 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 | 2,439 | -6.7% | -6.9% | 6,998 | -0.2% | -0.9% |
| ICA Kvantum | 2,024 | -3.9% | -5.3% | 5,828 | 0.9% | -0.2% |
| ICA Supermarket | 2,600 | -4.3% | -4.9% | 7,490 | -0.5% | -1.2% |
| ICA Nära | 1,257 | -4.0% | -3.0% | 3,577 | -1.2% | -0.1% |
| Total | 8,321 | -4.9% | -5.3% | 23,893 | -0.1% | -0.7% |
In March 2014 sales in the Swedish ICA stores totalled SEK 8,321 million excluding VAT, which is a decrease of 4.9% compared with the same period in the previous year. Year-to-date sales total SEK 23,893 million which is marginally lower, -0,1%, than 2013.
The calendar effect due to Easter is estimated to amount to approximately -6 percentage points for March and
-1,3 percentage points for the year-to-date.
At 31 March 2014 the number of ICA stores in Sweden totalled 1,320. The number of stores decreased by one (ICA Nära) during the month.
Store sales for April will be published on Friday, 9 May 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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