Bricorama grows by five per cent

French DIY retailer Bricorama was able to increase sales in 2011 by 5.07 per cent to € 733.4 mio. France saw an increase of 5.2 per cent and accounted for € 482.8 mio of the total. Belgium and the Netherlands contributed sales of € 226.6 mio, or 4.1 per cent more than the previous year. Sales in Spain rose by 11.1 per cent to € 24.0 mio following the opening of the company’s ninth outlet there; in like-for-like terms they only just attained the previous year’s level. Bricorama achieved an increase of 81 per cent to € 1.4 mio in the area of e-commerce.