ICA Gruppen AB: ICA Gruppen issues bonds for SEK 1.5 billion

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ICA Gruppen has today successfully completed a bond issue of SEK 1.5 billion under the company's Swedish MTN programme. The bonds have a tenor of five years and mature on 17 June 2019. The bonds are divided into two tranches, of which SEK 1 300 billion carries floating interest and SEK 200 million carries fixed interest.

Handelsbanken Capital Markets and SEB (Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB (publ)) are Joint Bookrunners for the issue. The bonds will be listed on Nasdaq OMX Stockholm.

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 www.icagruppen.se

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 16.45 CET on Tuesday 10 June 2014.

IMPORTANT NOTICE The information in this press release is not for release, publication or distribution, either directly or indirectly, in the United States, Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, Canada, Switzerland, Singapore, South Africa or New Zealand. The distribution of this press release may be prohibited in certain other jurisdictions. The information in this press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or an invitation to purchase any securities in ICA Gruppen in any jurisdiction. This press release does not constitute, nor will it form part of, an offer or invitation to purchase or subscribe for securities in the United States. The securities referred to herein may not be offered or sold in the US without registration or exemption from registration as provided in the US Securities Act of 1933, as amended ("Securities Act”). ICA Gruppen does not intend to register any portion of the offering of the securities in the US or to conduct a public offering of the securities in the US. Copies of this announcement are not being distributed or sent and may not be distributed or sent to the US, Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, Canada, Switzerland, Singapore, South Africa or New Zealand.

This document has not been approved by any regulatory authority. This document is a press release and not a prospectus, and investors should not subscribe for or purchase any securities referred to in this document except on the basis of the information that is provided in the prospectus which has been approved by the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority and is available for download at ICA Gruppen’s website.

EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA ICA Gruppen has not resolved to offer shares or rights to the public in any Member State of the European Economic Area other than Sweden. Within such Member States of the European Economic Area, other than Sweden, which have implemented the Prospectus Directive (a "Relevant Member State”), no action has been undertaken as of this date to make an offer to the public of shares or rights requiring publication of a prospectus in any Relevant Member State. In consequence, the shares or rights may only be offered in a Relevant Member State: (a) to a qualified investor (as defined in the Prospectus Directive or applicable law), or (b) in any other circumstances not requiring ICA Gruppen to publish a prospectus as provided under Article 3(2) of the Prospectus Directive.

In the application of this, the expression an "offer to the public of shares or rights” in any Relevant Member State means the communication, in any form, of sufficient information on the terms of the offer and the shares or rights to be offered so as to enable an investor to decide to purchase any securities, as the same may be varied in such a Relevant Member State due to the implementation of the Prospectus Directive in that Member State, and the expression "Prospectus Directive” means Directive 2003/71/EC including any relevant implementing measures in each Relevant Member State.

Handelsbanken Capital Markets and SEB are acting for ICA Gruppen and no one else in connection with the new share issue and will not be responsible to anyone other than ICA Gruppen for providing the protection afforded to their clients or for providing advice in relation to the new share issue and/or any other matter referred to in this announcement.

Handelsbanken Capital Markets and SEB accept no responsibility whatsoever and make no representation or warranty, express or implied, for the contents of this announcement, including its accuracy, completeness or verification or for any other statement made or purported to be made by Handelsbanken Capital Markets, SEB, or on their behalf, in connection with ICA Gruppen and the new shares and the new share issue, and nothing in this announcement is or shall be relied upon as a promise or undertaking in this respect, whether as to the past or future. Handelsbanken Capital Markets and SEB accordingly disclaim to the fullest extent permitted by law all and any liability whether arising in tort, contract or otherwise which Handelsbanken Capital Markets and SEB might otherwise have in respect of this announcement or any such statement.

FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS

This press release contains forward-looking statements that reflect management’s current views with respect to future events and potential financial performance. Although ICA Gruppen believes that the expectations reflected in such statements are reasonable, no assurance can be given that such expectations will prove to be correct. Accordingly, results may differ materially from those set out in the forward-looking statements as a result of various factors. You are advised to read this announcement, and the prospectus and the information incorporated by reference therein once available, in their entirety for a further discussion of the factors that could affect ICA Gruppen’s future performance and the sectors in which ICA Gruppen operates. In the light of these risks, uncertainties and assumptions, it is possible that the events described in the forward-looking statements in this announcement may not occur.

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