Drop in the first quarter as well

The sales losses in the DIY and builders' merchant division of the Finnish Kesko group of companies continued in March as well. The loss for the first quarter as a whole amounts to 6.7 per cent on a volume of € 499.6 mio. At -5.6 per cent the drop recorded by the domestic DIY stores was somewhat less extreme than the -7.9 per cent suffered abroad.