The sales channel Byggvaror Skånska is primarily responsible for the decline. Its sales dropped by 28.1 per cent to SEK 509.9 mio. In contrast, the primary sales channel Byggmax almost achieved the previous year's value with a decline of 0.2 per cent to SEK 4.4911 bn.
At the end of the year, the group operated a total of 163 stores: there were 100 Byggmax stores in Sweden for the first time, as well as nine Skånska Byggvaror locations, 44 stores in Norway (including four Skånska Byggvarors) and eleven Byggmax stores in Finland.