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Sweden's ICA Sees Sales Rise By 2.6% In February

By Steve Wynne-Jones
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Sweden's ICA Sees Sales Rise By 2.6% In February

Swedish retailer ICA has said that sales across its store network rose by 2.6% in February, compared to the same period last year.

Like-for-like sales rose by 2.1%, the company said.

Divisional Performance

Its ICA Kvantum business was the strongest performing division, posting SEK 2.1 billion worth of sales, an increase of 3.7%, or 2.0% on a like-for-like basis.

ICA Nära posted sales of SEK 1.3 billion, a 3.4% increase (3.5% in like-for-like terms), while Maxi ICA Stormarknad posted sales of SEK 2.6 billion, which was 2.2% higher, or up 1.6% in like-for-like terms.

Its ICA Supermarket business posted sales of SEK 2.6 billion, a 1.5% increase, or 2.0% in like-for-like terms.

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Overall Sales

Overall, sales in ICA stores totalled SEK 8.6 billion excluding VAT, which is an increase of 2.6% compared with the same month in the previous year.

Sales over the first two months of the year amounted to SEK 17,627 million, an increase of 2.7% compared with the previous year.

ICA Gruppen estimates the calendar effect for February to be 0%.

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