Downward sales trend

The Finnish Kesko Group’s building and home improvement trade division recorded sales of € 1.191 bn in the first six months of 2009, which amounts to a decrease of 25.1 per cent on the same period last year. Sales in Finland dropped by 23.4 per cent to € 567.3 mio. A sales decline of 26.5 per cent to a total of € 623.4 mio is revealed for the group’s stores abroad (in Norway, Sweden, the Baltic states, Russia and Belarus).