Lenta Limited announced consolidated sales results for the fourth quarter and year-to-date ended December 31, 2018. For the quarter, the company announced that total sales grew 6.6%, to RUB 119.5 billion compared to RUB 112.1 billion a year ago, including retail sales growth of 11.3% to RUB 115.3 billion compared to RUB 103.7 billion a year ago and wholesales fall of 50.7%. Like-for-like retail sales growth of 2.1%. LFL retail traffic growth of 0.0% and LFL retail ticket growth of 2.1%. For the year-to-date, total sales grew 13.2% to RUB 413.5 billion compared to RUB 365.2 billion a year ago, including retail sales growth of 13.6% to RUB 392.1 billion compared to RUB 345.0 billion a year ago and wholesales growth of 6.0%. LFL retail sales growth of 1.3%, which excludes LFL wholesales growth of 5.3%. LFL retail traffic growth of 0.5% combined with a 0.8% increase in LFL retail ticket. 13 hypermarkets and 38 supermarkets were opened on net basis during with 84.7 th. sq.m of net selling space addition. Total selling space increased to 1,467,482 sq.m, increased by 6.1% compared to previous year.