Sales down

Kesko reports sales in its building and home improvement trade division down by 24.2 per cent to € 1.816 bn for the first nine months of the 2009 financial year. Sales in Finland fell by 22.6 per cent to € 841.2 mio. Sales abroad amounted to € 975.2 mio, or 25.6 per cent down on the same period last year.