Sales by the French Bricorama Group in the third quarter of 2006 were up by 4.4 per cent over the same period last year to € 170.3 mio. In France the group had sales of € 117.3 mio (+3.9 per cent), while sales abroad increased to € 53.0 mio (+5.6 per cent). Sales for the first nine months of the year have risen by 2.1 per cent to € 478.6 mio.