ICA Gruppen Issues SEK 2.5 Billion in New Bonds

ICA Gruppen AB, formerly Hakon Invest AB, is a Sweden-based company that operates in a number of areas important to people’s everyday lives, including grocery, pharmacies, banking and insurance. The core business is grocery retail. The Company's business activities are divided into five segments: The ICA Sweden, that provides grocery retail services; The Rimi Baltic operates a grocery retail business and has 297 wholly owned stores in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania; The Apotek Hjartat, that operates pharmacy market; The ICA Real Estate, that has a property portfolio within the retail segment. Its overall mission is to satisfy the long term need for appropriate properties in the right locations and to create the conditions for ICA’s businesses to increase growth and take market share; and The ICA Bank provides a broad range of banking and insurance services to private and corporate customers.