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Sweden's ICA Sees Sales Up 5.7% In November

Swedish retailer ICA Gruppen has posted a like-for-like sales increase of 5.7% across its store estate in November. Sales across the group's portfolio s...

Sweden’s ICA Sees Sales Up 8.9% In October 2020

Swedish retailer ICA has posted an 8.9% year-on-year growth in sales to SEK10.8 billion (€1.05 billion) in October 2020. Like-for-like sales for th...

Amazon Launches Shopping Website In Sweden

Amazon.com Inc on Wednesday opened up its Swedish website, offering customers more than 150 million products across 30 categories, marking its first entry...

Axfood Sees Sales, Profitability Up, Despite Challenging Operating Conditions

Swedish retailer Axfood has posted a 5.5% increase in consolidated net sales in its third quarter, along with a 11.3% increase in operating profits, while...

Tissue Maker Essity Hit By Stay-At-Home Trend, Invests In Digital

Swedish hygiene products group Essity's sales suffered again in the third quarter from the stay-at-home trend sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as...

Sweden’s ICA Sees 6.7% Sales Growth In September 2020

Swedish retailer ICA Gruppen has posted a 6.7% year-on-year growth in sales to SEK 10.2 billion (€980 million) in September 2020. Like-for-like sal...

Axfood’s Dagab Partners With Scania For Sustainable Transport

Sweden’s Axfood has announced that its subsidiary Dagab has partnered with Scania to reduce fossil-fuels in its fleet. The partnership will see Sc...

Swedish Trade Sector To Lose SEK70bn In Q2 2020: Report

The trade sector in Sweden is set to lose SEK70 billion (€6.73 billion) in the second quarter of 2020, according to the latest Merchant Economy report...