H&M Hennes & Mauritz

Earnings Release • Jan 16, 2017

Press release

16 January 2017

Sales development in December 2016

The H&M group's sales including VAT increased by 6 percent in local currencies in December 2016 compared to the same month last year. Converted into SEK, sales increased by 10 percent.

	Financial year
	2013/2014	2014/2015	2015/2016	2016/2017
December	10	15	10	6
January	15	14	7
February	11	15	10
March	13	10	2
April	17	10	5
May	19	10	9
June	12	14	8
July	17	16	10
August	19	1	7
September	8	11	1
October	14	12	10
November	10	4	9
Full year	14	11	7

Sales development per month in percent in local currencies:

The total number of stores amounted to 4,379 on 31 December 2016 compared to 3,957 on 31 December 2015.

The Full-year Report, covering the period 1 December 2015 – 30 November 2016, will be published at 08.00 (CET) on 31 January 2017. Percentage sales development for the month of January will be published at 08.00 (CET) on 15 February 2017.

Karl-Johan Persson, CEO

Contact: Nils Vinge, Head of IR, +46 8 796 5250

The information in this press release is that which H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB (publ) is required to disclose under the EU Market Abuse Regulation (596/2014 /EU). The information was submitted for publication by the abovementioned person at 08.00 CET on 16 January 2017. This press release, along with additional information about H&M, is available at www.hm.com.

H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB (publ) was founded in Sweden in 1947 and is quoted on Nasdaq Stockholm. H&M's business idea is to offer fashion and quality at the best price in a sustainable way. In addition to H&M, the group includes the brands & Other Stories, Cheap Monday, COS, Monki and Weekday as well as H&M Home. The H&M Group has more than 4,300 stores in 64 markets including franchise markets. In 2016, sales including VAT were SEK approximately 223 billion. The number of employees amounts to more than 148,000. For further information, visit hm.com.