Double-digit growth rate

Rautakesko can look back over a positive first six months of 2007. The Finnish builders’ merchant and DIY retail group recorded sales of € 1.948 bn, or 20.4 per cent more than in the same period last year. Sales in Finland went up by 11.7 per cent to € 741.2 mio, and Rautakesko achieved an increase of 26.5 per cent abroad.