Organic range continues to grow

ICA Gruppen presents its Sustainability Report for the second quarter of 2015
today. The report covers important events and initiatives within the
environment, quality, ethical trade, health and community engagement.
“It is now three years since we started publishing a quarterly report of our
sustainability initiatives in line our aim to both increase transparency and
improve the follow-up structure. But still what is important here is not the
reporting, but the actual results we achieve. And here there is a lot to be
pleased about. Thanks to long-term and targeted efforts within energy,
refrigerants, transports and business travel, we have achieved a real reduction
in emissions of greenhouse gases. Our organic sales also continue to grow,
partly due to an extended range of ICA’s private labels,” says Per Strömberg,
CEO of ICA Gruppen.

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Development of the organic range
In the second quarter, sales of ICA Sweden’s organic range in the Swedish ICA
stores rose by 58% (62) compared with the corresponding period in the previous
year. At the same time development of new organic products continued, including
the launch of a number of new items within the “I love eco” concept.

Sharp increase in take-back of unused medicines
Apotek Hjärtat’s campaign to encourage people to return unused medicines to
their nearest pharmacy resulted in an increase in collection during the first
and second quarters of 2015 of a full 42%.

150,000 downloads of the “ICA hälsorabatt” (ICA health discount) app
To encourage a daily dose of exercise, ICA Sweden launched the “ICA hälsorabatt”
app at the end of the previous quarter. The app registers all movement during
the day – and every completed kilometre then provides a discount on selected
products. The app has been downloaded more than 150,000 times since its launch.

ICA Gruppen’s sustainability reporting acclaimed
At the beginning of June, the Swedish professional institute for authorised
public accountants (FAR) awarded ICA Gruppen an honourable mention in the “Best
Sustainability Report” competition. Later in the same month, ICA Gruppen also
received an honourable mention in the Swedish environmental magazine
Miljörapporten’s review “Best Sustainability Report by a Listed Company”.

For more information
ICA Gruppen press service, Telephone number: +46 10 422 52 52

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 8:00 CET on Thursday, 20 August, 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 Apotek Hjärtat which conducts pharmacy
operations. The Group also includes the wholly owned portfolio company inkClub
and the partly owned portfolio company Hemtex. For more information see
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