In financial year 2006, Germany's Gauselmann Group exceeded by far the corporate targets that it had set itself.

The business volume totalled €1.33bn (€1.003bn in 2005) with aggregated consolidated revenues of its three business units rising to €1.001bn (€732m in 2005).

This corresponds to a revenue increase of 37 per cent. Almost half of the revenue increase results from business acquisitions in the last two years. German domestic and foreign business contributed approximately 50 per cent each to the total revenue.

“My group of companies is celebrating its 50-year anniversary this year and last year’s was the best financial result in our history of our company,” said founder and chairman, Paul Gauselmann.