date:Mar 18, 2013
Russian grocery chain Dixy said on Friday its revenues rose 20.2 percent in February, year-on-year, to 13.5 billion roubles ($438.6 million) after a rise of 22.1 percent in the previous month.
Adjusted for the leap year effect - as there were 28 days last month compared to 29 days in February 2012 - sales grew 23.8 percent, the company said in a statement.
Growth was helped by new store openings as the company's selling space expanded by 25 percent from the year earlier.
Dixy, the third-large