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About ten years after it was established, the German DIY retail cooperative EMV-Profi has revealed sales growth of 3.5 per cent to € 686 mio in the current 2008 financial year. The number of stores over 500 m² in size rose from 274 in 2007 to the current total of 280. The result in like-for-like terms amounts to a sales decrease of around 2.5 per cent.