ICA Gruppen AB: Quarterly Report on Sustainability July – September 2013

Regulatory News:

Today, ICA Gruppen (STO:ICA) presents its report on ICA’s sustainability activities for the third quarter of 2013. The report covers significant events and activities within environment, quality, ethical trade, health and social engagement.

"To excel in corporate responsibility is one of our six strategic themes. We therefore continually strive to raise our ambitions with new efforts. During the quarter ICA continued to work, among other things, with improvements in environment and quality, for example increased origin labelling,” says Per Strömberg, CEO of ICA Gruppen.

Important events in brief

• ICA Sweden has signed the Bangladesh Accord, an international agreement between companies and trade unions to improve safety in the textile industry in Bangladesh.

• Further steps have been taken to phase out packaging containing the controversial plastic chemical bisphenol A (BPA). ICA’s own brand tuna is now also sold in a new, innovative package which is BPA-free as well as more efficient to transport.

• ICA Sweden was awarded The Transport Group’s Pegasus Prize for 2013 for work on finding new, more environmentally friendly fuels for transports, primarily methane diesel. The motivation includes the admirable way in which ICA has made demands on hauliers’ environmental performance.

• Rimi Baltic continues its focus on health and carried out a number of activities during the quarter.

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, 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 and inkClub and partly owned portfolio companies Cervera, Hemtex and Kjell & Company. For more information see www.icagruppen.se

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