Some gains in double digits

Last year the retail division of the German cooperative group Eurobaustoff made a gain of 5.34 per cent. This increase was achieved by the Eurobaustoff specialist dealers mainly in the product categories of machines and tools, paint and garden furniture, where they notched up double-digit growth. Even the tiling/natural stone line of business, which finished with an increase of 2.6 per cent, came off better than the cooperative's other sales channels. These results compare with the wholesale division, where there was a sales decline of 0.87 per cent. Eurobaustoff's combined external sales amounted to around € 9.5 bn.