Roughly like 2006

Zeus reports net sales of € 936.9 mio for the Hagebaumarkt stores in Germany at the end of the first three quarters of 2007, which amounts to an increase of 0.0 per cent. The report also gives an adjusted net sales figure of € 15.7 mio for Hagebau’s Kompakt stores, which amounts to an increase of 0.9 per cent, and of € 62.6 mio or a rise of 1.2 per cent for the Werkmarkt format. The net overall total comes to € 1.0152 bn in like-for-like terms, or an increase of 0.1 per cent. Forecasts for the full year 2007 come to roughly the same level as 2006, with some slight increases.