ICA Gruppen AB: Swedish ICA stores – February 2015 sales figures

Regulatory News:

ICA Gruppen AB (STO:ICA):

Sales in the Swedish ICA stores rose by 4.8% in February 2015 compared with the corresponding month last year. Sales in like-for-like stores increased by 3.9%.

In February 2015, sales in the Swedish ICA stores totalled SEK 7,864 million excluding VAT, which is an increase of 4.8% compared with the same month in the previous year. Sales in January-February 2015 amounted to SEK 16,281 million, an increase of 4.5% compared with the previous year.

At 28 February 2015, the number of ICA stores in Sweden was 1,312.

Store sales for March will be published on 10 April 2015 at 08.45 CET. To see all publication dates in 2015, 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 08.45 CET on Monday, 9 March 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, since January 2015, Apotek Hjärtat which conducts pharmacy operations. The Group also includes ICA Norway which is being divested, the wholly owned portfolio company inkClub and the partly owned portfolio companies Cervera and Hemtex. For more information see icagruppen.se

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