Baumax increases sales

In 2005 the Austrian Baumax Group increased its gross sales by 5.1 per cent to € 1.1 bn. The DIY store and garden centre operator achieved sales worth € 550 mio in Austria, equivalent to an increase of 3.4 per cent. Sales abroad account for 48 per cent of the total. Not all countries exhibited a uniform trend: sales totalled € 200 mio in the Czech Republic, € 100 mio in Slovakia and € 140 mio in Hungary. In Slovenia Baumax reported a figure of € 30 mio and in Croatia € 40 mio.