ICA Gruppen AB: Swedish ICA stores – April sales figures

Regulatory News:

Sales in the Swedish ICA (STO:ICA) stores rose by 9.7% in April 2014 compared with the corresponding month last year. In like-for-like stores the sales increase was 9.0%. Easter 2014 was in April compared with March in 2013. In terms of sales, Easter is an important holiday and had a positive impact on store sales in April compared with last year.

In April 2014, sales in the Swedish ICA stores totalled SEK 8,796 million excluding VAT, which is an increase of 9.7% compared with the same month in the previous year. Sales in January-April 2014 amounted to SEK 32,683 million, an increase of 2.3% compared with the previous year.

The Easter holiday is assessed to have increased store sales with approximately 7% during April 2014.

At 30 April 2014, the number of ICA stores in Sweden was 1,320.

Store sales for May will be published on Tuesday, 10 June 2014 at 08.45. CET. To see all publication dates in 2014, please visit ICA Gruppen’s website http://www.icagruppen.se/en/investor-relations/calendar/.

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 08.45 CET on Friday, 9 May 2014.

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 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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