Sales decreased by 5 per cent in March to 489 MSEK (515). In local currencies, sales decreased by 2 per cent. Sales in March was negatively affected by a calendar effect of about 6 percentage points, due to fewer trading days compared with the previous year.
Compared with the same month previous year, the net store portfolio was expanded by
7 stores. At the end of the period, the total number of stores was 205.
Sales were distributed as follows:
| Countries, MSEK | March 2015/16 |
March 2014/15 |
Percentage change | Percentage change, local currency |
| Sweden | 235 | 235 | +0 | +0 |
| Norway | 179 | 202 | -12 | -4 |
| Finland | 53 | 52 | +1 | +1 |
| Outside Nordic countries | 23 | 25 | -7 | +0 |
| 489 | 515 | -5 | -2 |
Total sales during the first eleven months of the fiscal year (May 2015 to March 2016) increased by 4 per cent to 7,082 MSEK (6,824). In local currencies, sales increased by
6 per cent.
The Year-end Report 2015/16 will be published at 07:00 CET on Wednesday
8 June 2016. The report will be presented on the same day at 08:30 CET in Clas Ohlson’s store at Drottninggatan 53 in Stockholm, Sweden.
The information in this press release comprises information that Clas Ohlson AB (publ) is required to disclose pursuant to the Swedish Securities Market Act and/or the Swedish Financial Instruments Trading Act. The information was submitted for publication on 15 April 2016 at 7:00 a.m. (CET)