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Baumax sticking to annual plan

Baumax still intends to achieve two-figure growth for the entire year in terms of both turnover and operating results, despite sales growth of just two per cent in the first quarter

News27. May 2002

New ATB boss

Guillermo Leal is now at the head of the Spanish franchise headquarters, which has gone through a process of restructuring and departures

News24. May 2002

Pilot in the neighbourhood

Home Depot tests its new convenience store concept in Brooklyn

News24. May 2002

Teubl switchover to OBI

Styrian builders’ merchant leaves the Öbau Group

News24. May 2002

Extraordinary general meeting on Castorama takeover

Chairman Francis Mackay: “We want to keep the French management”

News23. May 2002

Sales down in Austria

Particularly the markets of Central Europe are behind the Baumax Group’s two per cent gain

News23. May 2002

Kingfisher mandate relinquished

Castorama boss Loyez leaves the board of the British group

News22. May 2002

Profit growth overtakes sales increase

Home Depot has produced its quarterly results: like-for-like growth comes to five per cent

News22. May 2002

Loyez presents his own reckoning

The head of Castorama speaks of a hostile takeover bid and refers to the strength of his company’s figures compared to B&Q

News21. May 2002

Like-for-like rise of 7.5 per cent

Lowe’s, the second largest DIY retailer in the world, had a turnover of US $ 6.47 bn in the first quarter of the current financial year

News21. May 2002

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Baumax sticking to annual plan

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Pilot in the neighbourhood

Teubl switchover to OBI

Extraordinary general meeting on Castorama takeover

Sales down in Austria

Kingfisher mandate relinquished

Profit growth overtakes sales increase

Loyez presents his own reckoning

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