Swedish retailer ICA has posted sales of SEK 9,604 million in April 2017, which represents an increase of 8% compared to the same month last year.
Sales have been strong so far in 2017, with figures from January to April totalling SEK 36,107 million - an increase of 2.3% on 2016.
The retailer's hypermarket chain, Maxi ICA Stormarknad, experienced the highest level of growth, with an increase of 9.6% on a like-for-like basis.
Earlier this week, ICA announced that it had managed to cut greenhouse gas emissions in its business by more than a third over the past year, with plans to reduce this by a further 30% by the end of the decade, as part of a sustainability drive.
ICA operates almost 1,300 stores across Sweden.
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