ICA Gruppen rights issue fully subscribed

The subscription period for the ICA Gruppen AB (publ) new issue with
preferential rights for existing shareholders expired on Friday, 24 May 2013.
The final outcome shows that 39,902,922 ordinary shares, corresponding to
99.19% of the offering, were subscribed for with primary preferential rights. In
addition, applications have been made to subscribe for 15,247,316 ordinary
shares without the support of subscription rights. The new issue is thereby
fully subscribed and the company will receive approximately SEK 5 billion.

Per Strömberg, CEO of ICA Gruppen: "We are grateful for the confidence shown by
our shareholders by participating in the rights issue. Interest in taking part
has been considerable."

Ordinary shares subscribed for without subscription rights have been allocated
in accordance with the principles specified in the prospectus. Settlement notes
for these shares will be sent out this week to subscribers to whom shares have
been allocated.

The total number of shares in ICA Gruppen AB (publ) will increase as a result of
the new rights issue to 201,146,795, divided into 119,078,903 ordinary shares
and 82,067,892 C shares. The company's share capital will thereby increase from
SEK 402,293,590 to SEK 502,866,987.50 distributed among 201,146,795 shares, each
with a quota value of SEK 2.50.

Ordinary shares and C shares carry the same voting rights but a different
dividend entitlement. While ordinary shares have an unlimited dividend
entitlement, C shares do not carry entitlement to cash profit distribution. All
C shares will be converted into ordinary shares on 1 January 2016, which means
that subsequently the company will only have one class of share in the form of
ordinary shares with dividend entitlement. The total number of shares will
remain unchanged after the conversion.

The new ordinary shares subscribed for with primary preferential rights are
expected to be registered with the Swedish Companies Registration Office on or
around 30 May and recorded in the respective accounts on or around 4 June 2013.

For more information
ICA Gruppen press service, phone number: +46 70 253 66 60



ICA Gruppen discloses the information provided herein pursuant to the Securities
Market Act and/or the Financial Instruments Trading Act. The information was
submitted for publication at 08.00 CET on Thursday, 30 May 2013.

ICA Gruppen AB (publ) is one of the Nordic region's leading retail companies,
with around 2, 400 of its own and retailer-owned stores in Sweden, Norway and
the three Baltic states. 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 fully-owned portfolio companies Forma Publishing Group and inkClub
and partly owned portfolio companies Cervera, Hemtex and Kjell & Company. For
more information see www.icagruppen.se

  

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