Sweden

Sweden's ICA Sees Sales Rise By 2.6% In February

Swedish retailer ICA has said that sales across its store network rose by 2.6% in February, compared to the same period last year. Like-for-like sales r...

ESM TV Meets… Magnus Groth, Essity

In the latest edition of ESM: European Supermarket Magazine (Issue 1, 2018), we meet Magnus Groth, chief executive of Essity, the Sweden-based paper produc...

Sweden's Svensk Handel Welcomes New Legislation On Retail Theft

Svensk Handel, a group that represents the retail and wholesale trade in Sweden, has welcomed new legislation by the Swedish government to combat organised...

Sweden’s ICA Enjoys January Sales Boost, Invests In E-Commerce

ICA Sweden has posted a 2.4% increase in like-for-like sales in January 2018, with total sales up 2.8%. Sales in its ICA Nära proximity banner perf...

Ingvar Kamprad, Ikea’s Swedish Billionaire Founder, Dies at 91

Ingvar Kamprad, whose boyhood business of selling pencils and seeds from his bicycle in Sweden eventually grew into the Ikea furniture chain, has died. He...

Coop Sweden Sees Increase In Sales Of Organic Products

Coop Sweden’s sales of organic products grew by 0.1% in 2017, increasing organic’s share of total sales to 10.1% across the retailer&rsquo...

Orkla's Senior Vice President Investor Relations To Step Down

Norwegian food producer Orkla has announced that Mattias Orrenius will step down as senior vice president for investor relations, to take up the role as ch...

Orkla Buys Online Health and Sports Nutrition Stores

Norwegian food producer Orkla has announced its acquisition of the Swedish company Health and Sports Nutrition Group HSNG AB. The move sees Orkla invest...