ICA Gruppen AB: Swedish ICA stores – August 2016 sales figures

Regulatory News:

Sales in the Swedish ICA  (STO:ICA) stores increased by 1.1% in August 2016 compared with the corresponding month last year. Sales in like-for-like stores increased by 0.8%.

In August 2016, sales in the Swedish ICA stores totalled SEK 9,535 million excluding VAT, which is an increase of 1.1% compared with the same month in the previous year. Sales in January-August 2016 amounted to SEK 73,887 million, an increase of 2.8% compared with the previous year.

ICA Gruppen estimates the calendar effect for August to be -0.2%.

At 31 August 2016, the number of ICA stores in Sweden was 1,295. Store sales for September will be published on 10 October 2016 at 08.45 CET.

To see all publication dates in 2016, please visit ICA Gruppen’s website http://www.icagruppen.se/en/investors/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 time 08:45 on Thursday September 8, 2016.

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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 Hemtex. For more information see icagruppen.se

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