The German and Austrian Hagebaumarkt stores showed a clear increase in the third quarter. In the home market of Germany, the Hagebau specialist trading group's sales division increased its net sales turnover to € 1.45 bn (retailer external turnover with end customers). This corresponds to a 2.1 per cent increase compared to the same period in 2014. The 41 Austrian Hagebaumarkt stores increased their external turnover by 3.2 per cent to € 152.96 mio (previous year: € 148.20 mio).At the end of the nine-month period, the company headquarters were slightly under the corresponding revenue of € 4.75 bn from the previous year with their centrally invoiced turnover of € 4.70 bn. Whereby € 2.94 bn was attributable to the specialist retail trade, that's 0.9 per cent less than in the same period of the previous year.