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Hornbach Holding AG: Hornbach Group boosts sales by 6.0 percent to Euro 3.57 billion - Seite 2

AG. "Together with our high-performing online retail, our stationary DIY
stores and garden centers offer real added value to customers, particularly
those planning to tackle larger-scale construction and renovation
projects."

Other European countries return to like-for-like growth

The Hornbach Group can also report pleasing growth for the 2014/2015
financial year in its eight country markets outside Germany. Including one
new store opening, DIY sales in other European countries rose 5.0 percent
(2013/2014: 3.5 percent) to Euro 1,390 million.
Like-for-like sales performance at Hornbach DIY megastores with garden
centers * (in percent)

2014/2015 financial          1st        2nd        3rd        4th     Total
year                     quarter    quarter    quarter    quarter
2013/2014 financial
year

Group                       14.6       -1.0        1.0        2.4       4.4
                            -5.9        4.6        4.6       10.6       2.7
Germany                     19.4       -1.0        1.4        1.8       5.5
                            -5.8        7.7        7.0       14.1       4.9
Other European
countries                    8.2       -1.0        0.6        3.4       2.8
                            -6.1        0.5        1.5        5.9      -0.1

* excluding currency items

The international business achieved a turnaround in its like-for-like sales
net of currency items. After three consecutive years of decline, Hornbach's
international stores posted substantial adjusted sales growth of 2.8
percent in 2014/2015 (2013/2014: -0.1 percent).

According to the company, these figures also reflect the overall
improvement in the macroeconomic framework for consumers and construction
clients outside Germany compared with the previous year. Hornbach can
report significantly improved sales momentum in all of its country markets.
"What is pleasing for us is that we have yet again grown faster than the
DIY sector average, and that not only in Germany, but also across most of
our international network", added Albrecht Hornbach.

In 2014/2015, Hornbach Baustoff Union GmbH had to match the high standard
set in the strong previous year. At Euro 213 million, sales at this
subgroup, which operated an unchanged total of 27 builders' merchant
outlets at the balance sheet date on February 28, 2015, fell only slightly
short of the previous year's figure of Euro 216 million.