The largest turnover had little surprisingly the largest municipality of Eskilstuna with SEK 6.4 billion. There, the increase was 1.8 per cent, ie 117 million. It shows new figures from HUI Research.

Enjoy the strongest growth

Next to the podium came Nyköping with SEK 4 billion and Katrineholm with SEK 2 billion.

What is noteworthy is that Gnesta had the greatest growth of just under six percent, compared with 2017.

Vingåker and Oxelösund decreased

Two municipalities in Sörmland reduced their turnover.

Vingåker's total landed at SEK 636 million, which is a decrease of 1.3 percent.

Oxelösund had a slight decrease with SEK 1 million and sales reached SEK 398 million.

Retail in Sweden

Looking at the whole country, physical retail sales in Sweden totaled SEK 674 billion last year, an increase of just under two percent compared to 2017.

90 per cent consisted of retail trade and ten per cent e-commerce.