Swedish Match AB operates in the Chewing and smoking tobacco sector.
In addition to historical fundamental analyses, the complete report available to purchase compares Swedish Match AB with three other
tobacco companies in Europe:
Bulgartabac Holding AD
of Bulgaria
(2017
sales of 398.04 million Bulgarian Lev [US$251.77 million]
),
Scandinavian Tobacco Group A/S
of Denmark
(6.46 billion Danish Kroner [US$1.07 billion]
of which 39%
was Machine-made cigars), and
Philip Morris CR a.s.
which is
based in the Czech Republic
(12.20 billion Czech Koruny [US$597.07 million]
of which 53%
was Czech Republic).
Sales Analysis.
Swedish Match AB reported sales of SEK 16.10 billion (US$1.92 billion)
for the
year ending
December of 2017.
This
represents
an
increase of 3.5%
versus 2016, when the company's sales were SEK 15.55 billion.
Sales at Swedish Match AB have increased during each of the previous five years
(and since 2012, sales have increased a total of 29%).
Sales of Other Tobacco Products saw an increase
that was more than double the company's growth rate: sales were up
8.2% in 2017, from
SEK 4.28 billion to SEK 4.63 billion.
Not all segments of Swedish Match AB experienced an increase in sales in 2017:
sales of Lights fell 1.8% to SEK 1.29 billion.