Hagebau Austria's sales rose by 0.9 per cent to € 392 mio in 2009. The results for the first five months of the current year indicate sales growth of 4.6 per cent to € 155 mio over the same period one year previously. As Hagebau's CEO Heribert Gondert explained at the members' meeting in Dresden, the company achieved this positive result despite a reduction in the total number of stores from 153 to 151.