Releases - H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB

Turnover for the H&M Group increased in November 2001 by 20 per cent compared with the corresponding period last year. The sales increase is reported excluding currency rate changes. Sales increase per month in per cent:


1998/1999 1999/2000 2000/2001

December 22 19 7
January 21 13 22
February 17 27 16
March 42 5 27
April 23 18 15
May 23 15 20
June 33 7 21
July 19 10 18
August 24 3 26
September 7...

Turnover for the H&M Group increased in October 2001 by 18 per cent compared with the corresponding period last year. The sales increase isreported excluding currency rate changes. Sales increase per month in per cent:


1998/1999 1999/2000 2000/2001

December 22 19 7
January 21 13 22
February 17 27 16
March 42 5 27
April 23 18 15
May 23 15 20
June 33 7 21
July 19 10 18
August 24 3 26
September 7 22...

Turnover for the H&M Group increased in September 2001 by 34 per cent compared with the corresponding period last year.

The sales increase is reported excluding currency rate changes.

Sales increase per month in per cent:

1998/1999 1999/2000 2000/2001


December 22 19 7
January 21 13 22
February 17 27 16
March 42 5 27
April 23 18 15
May 23 15 20
June 33 7 21
July 19 10 18
August 24 3...

• H&M's Group turnover amounted to SEK 32,356 M, an increase of 27
per cent. In comparable currency rates the increase was 18 per cent.

• Turnover for the third quarter amounted to SEK 10,965 M, an
increase of 34 per cent compared with last year. In comparable currency
rates the increase was 22 per cent.

• Increased market shares in every country.

• Profit after financial items was SEK 3,378 M, an...

• Turnover for the H&M Group amounted to SEK 21,391 M (SEK 17,242 M),
an increase of 24 per cent. In comparable currency rates, the increase
was 17 per cent.

• Good sales development during the second quarter. Increased market
shares in all countries.

• Turnover for the second quarter amounted to SEK 11,758 M (SEK 8,977
M), an increase of 31 per cent compared with the previous year, in
comparable currency...

Leif Persson will succeed Jan Jacobsen as chief financial officer at H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB.

Leif Persson has been working as financial officer within the H&M Group since 1974. Since March 2000 he has been working at the Stockholm head office together with Jan Jacobsen. Between 1989 and 2000 Leif Persson was head of finance at H&M in Germany, H&M's largest market, and before then at H&M in Denmark...

• Turnover for the year amounted to SEK 35,876 M including VAT (SEK 32,977 M), an increase of 9 per cent compared to last year. With comparable exchange rates, the increase was 12 per cent.

• Profit after financial items was SEK 4,003 M (SEK 4,759 M), a decrease of 16 per cent compared to last year, mainly due to price reductions, currency translation effects and investments in two new markets, the USA and...