Successful six months

The Hornbach Group has successfully concluded the first half of the 2008/2009 financial year (1 March to 31 August 2008). Net sales of the parent company, Hornbach Holding AG, rose 6.7 per cent to € 1.526 bn. The Hornbach Baumarkt AG part of the group also increased sales by 6.7 per cent to € 1.439 bn, which amounts to an increase of 1.9 per cent like-for-like. The group’s international stores recorded sales 13.3 per cent up to € 584.6 mio. EBIT recorded by the Hornbach DIY stores rose by 58.3 per cent to € 114.4 mio. The German group currently operates 127 DIY and garden stores, 36 of them abroad. The average retail area per store comes to just under 11 200 m².