Swedish ICA stores – March 2015 sales figures


Sales in the Swedish ICA stores rose by 6.2% in March 2015 compared with the
corresponding month last year. Sales in like-for-like stores increased by 5.1%.

+-----------+-----+------+--------+------+------+--------------------+
|           |March                |January                           |
|           |2015                 |– March                           |
|           |                     |2015                              |
+-----------+-----+------+--------+------+------+--------------------+
|Store      |SEKm |Change|Change  |SEKm  |Change|Change like-for-like|
|sales,     |     |all   |like-for|      |all   |                    |
|excl. VAT  |     |stores|-like   |      |stores|                    |
+-----------+-----+------+--------+------+------+--------------------+
|Maxi ICA   |2,653|8.8%  |6.0%    |7,521 |7.5%  |5.2%                |
|Stormarknad|     |      |        |      |      |                    |
+-----------+-----+------+--------+------+------+--------------------+
|ICA Kvantum|2,160|6.7%  |4.8%    |6,168 |5.8%  |4.0%                |
+-----------+-----+------+--------+------+------+--------------------+
|ICA        |2,710|4.4%  |4.8%    |7,717 |3.2%  |3.6%                |
|Supermarket|     |      |        |      |      |                    |
+-----------+-----+------+--------+------+------+--------------------+
|ICA Nära   |1,318|4.4%  |4.8%    |3,717 |3.5%  |4.0%                |
+-----------+-----+------+--------+------+------+--------------------+
|Total      |8,841|6.2%  |5.1%    |25,123|5.1%  |4.2%                |
+-----------+-----+------+--------+------+------+--------------------+

In March 2015, sales in the Swedish ICA stores totalled SEK 8,841 million
excluding VAT, which is an increase of 6.2% compared with the same month in the
previous year. Sales in January-March 2015 amounted to SEK 25,123 million, an
increase of 5.1% compared with the previous year.

The calendar effect in March, primarily due to Easter, is estimated at 1.1% and
at 0.3% for January-March.

At 31 March 2015, the number of ICA stores in Sweden was 1,311.

Store sales for April will be published on 11 May 2015 at 08.45 CET. To see all
publication dates in 2015, please visit ICA Gruppen’s website
http://www.icagruppen.se/en/investors/#!/calendar.

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Market Act and/or the Financial Instruments Trading Act. The information was
submitted for publication at 08.45 CET on Friday, 10 April 2015.
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, since January 2015, Apotek Hjärtat which
conducts pharmacy operations. The Group also includes ICA Norway which is being
divested, the wholly owned portfolio company inkClub and the partly owned
portfolio company Hemtex. For more information see icagruppen.se

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