ICA Gruppen AB: Swedish ICA Stores – March 2015 Sales Figures

Regulatory News:

ICA Gruppen AB (STO:ICA)

Sales in the Swedish ICA stores rose by 6.2% in March 2015 compared with the corresponding month last year. Sales in like-for-like stores increased by 5.1%.

In March 2015, sales in the Swedish ICA stores totalled SEK 8,841 million excluding VAT, which is an increase of 6.2% compared with the same month in the previous year. Sales in January-March 2015 amounted to SEK 25,123 million, an increase of 5.1% compared with the previous year.

The calendar effect in March, primarily due to Easter, is estimated at 1.1% and at 0.3% for January-March.

At 31 March 2015, the number of ICA stores in Sweden was 1,311.

Store sales for April will be published on 11 May 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 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 company Hemtex. For more information see 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 08.45 CET on Friday, 10 April 2015.

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