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FY 2024/25
Annual General Meeting 2024
News
HORNBACH Group FY 2024/25
HORNBACH Group delivers successfully in FY 2024/25 – preliminary figures underscore solid performance and relevance for customers
With 171 DIY megastores and garden centers, two specialist retail stores, 39 builders’ merchant outlets, and online shops in nine countries across Europe, the HORNBACH Group is one of the leading DIY players in Germany and Europe.
HORNBACH Baumarkt AG operates 171 DIY megastores and garden centers and two specialist retail stores in nine European countries. The subgroup HORNBACH Baustoff Union currently operates 39 builders’ merchant outlets in south-western Germany and close to the border in France.
2 million sqm
retail space
All in all, HORNBACH Baumarkt AG has retail space of around two million square meters. That corresponds to an average store size of around 12,000 square meters.
Euro 2,849
surface productivity
Sales per square meter of retail space (surface productivity of HORNBACH Baumarkt) stood at Euro 2,849 in 2024/25.
25,000
employees
The HORNBACH Group currently has around 25,000 employees.
Euro 6.2 bn
sales
The HORNBACH Group generated sales of around Euro 6.2 billion in the 2024/25 financial year (+0.6 percent on previous year).
Euro 270 m
Adjusted EBIT
The HORNBACH Group’s adjusted EBIT stood at approx. Euro 270 million in the 2024/25 financial year (+6.0 percent on previous year).
“We are pleased with the solid results achieved in the past financial year. Despite dampened customer sentiment, particularly in Germany, we successfully developed our business. Thus, we were able to increase market share in Germany as well as in other European key markets. The 1.2% rise in customer frequency in combination with a stable average basket size underscores our role as a trusted partner for home improvement endeavors and projects. We were able to stabilize our Group sales on a high level and increased our adjusted EBIT by 6.0%.”
CEO Albrecht Hornbach on the 2024/25 financial year
“We are pleased with the solid results achieved in the past financial year. Despite dampened customer sentiment, particularly in Germany, we successfully developed our business. Thus, we were able to increase market share in Germany as well as in other European key markets. The 1.2% rise in customer frequency in combination with a stable average basket size underscores our role as a trusted partner for home improvement endeavors and projects. We were able to stabilize our Group sales on a high level and increased our adjusted EBIT by 6.0%.”
CEO Albrecht Hornbach on the 2024/25 financial year
