The pharmacy chain Apotea reports an adjusted operating profit of 92.4 million kronor for the first quarter of the year, an increase from 62.2 million kronor for the corresponding quarter last year.
The net sales increased by more than 15 percent to 1.7 billion kronor in the quarter.
"The growth in the quarter was driven by a stable underlying demand for pharmacy products", writes CEO Pär Svärdson in a comment in the interim report.