Mr. Bricolage sales dip below previous year’s level

Sales by DIY stores belonging to the French franchise Mr. Bricolage came to € 2.1942 bn last year. The figure is 3.7 per cent down on the previous year, with like-for-like sales down 0.9 per cent. Sales in France were down by 4.3 per cent at a sales volume of € 1.9545 bn, while the fall in like-for-like sales was 1.2 per cent. However, sales in the group’s 69 foreign stores in Andorra, Belgium, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Romania, Morocco, Mauritius, Madagascar and Uruguay were up by 3.1 per cent to € 222.5 mio, with like-for-like sales growing by 1.2 per cent. Online sales brought in € 17.2 mio.
At the end of the year the group had 866 stores. Of the 797 stores in France, 359 trade under the main Mr. Bricolage brand and 127 under the Les Briconautes logo. 311 stores use neither of the two marketing brands.