ICA Gruppen to sell Forma


ICA Gruppen has signed an agreement to sell Forma Publishing Group, with
publications that include Icakuriren and Hus & Hem, to the Danish media company
Egmont. In a separate deal, the trade magazines Icanyheter and Market will be
sold to ICA-handlarnas Förbund. Taken overall, the divestment of Forma is not
expected to generate any earnings impact for ICA Gruppen.
“The divestment of Forma is in line with the strategy we adopted last autumn for
our portfolio operations, and which meant that Forma, Kjell & Company and
Cervera will be sold,” says ICA Gruppen’s CEO Per Strömberg.

The sale of Forma is subject to approval from the Swedish Competition Authority.
The final purchase price, and consequent final earnings impact, will be
determined in conjunction with completion of the divestments to Egmont and ICA
-handlarnas Förbund, preliminarily scheduled for in the beginning of October
2014. The enterprise value for the magazines Market and Icanyheter, to be
acquired by ICA-handlarnas Förbund, amounts to approximately SEK 20 million.

Divestment of the remaining operations in Forma complies with the strategy
adopted by ICA Gruppen in autumn 2013 and which meant that Forma, Kjell &
Company and Cervera will be sold. Forma Books was sold in autumn 2013 and the
sale of Kjell & Company to FSN Capital was finalised in May 2014. The divestment
process for Cervera will be initiated during autumn 2014.

Forma Publishing Group had sales totalling SEK 242 million in the period July
2013-June 2014 and posted an operating profit excluding non-recurring items of
SEK 16 million for the twelve months period.

For more information
ICA Gruppen’s press service, telephone: +46 10 422 52 52

ICA Gruppen AB discloses the information provided herein pursuant to the Swedish
Securities Market Act and/or the Swedish Financial Instruments Trading Act. The
information was submitted for publication at 08.45 CET on Wednesday, 29 August
2014.
ICA Gruppen AB (publ) is one of the Nordic region’s leading retail companies,
with around 2,300 of its own and retailer-owned stores in Sweden, Norway,
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The Group includes the retail companies ICA
Sweden, ICA Norway and Rimi Baltic, ICA Real Estate, which owns and manages
properties and ICA Bank, which offers financial services to Swedish customers.
The Group also includes the wholly owned portfolio companies Forma Publishing
Group and inkClub and partly owned portfolio companies Cervera and Hemtex. For
more information see icagruppen.se (http://www.icagruppen.se)

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