Strong growth

The sales channels of the Mr. Bricolage Group increased their sales revenue in the first half of 2007 by 7.5 per cent to € 913.7 mio. While the Mr. Bricolage stores were able to record a sales increase of 8.2 per cent to € 850.9 mio, sales of the Catena stores declined by 1.1 per cent to € 62.8 mio. The 413 Mr. Bricolage stores had a combined retail area of 1 171 mio m² at the end of June 2007, following six new openings (+22 355 m²) and 14 store extensions (+25 704 m²). The number of Catena outlets went down by four to 102, and their retail area also suffered a 2.6 per cent reduction to 103 000 m².