date:May 12, 2014
20% of the company's annual revenue. The unit includes 865 stores, nine warehouses and employs more than 7,000 workers. It reported sales of 2.18 billion last year.
Dia said it had removed the French unit's performance from the group's adjusted earnings report for the first quarter of 2014, where it recorded sales of 1.83 billion, down from 1.87 billion in the same period last year. Excluding France, DIA operated 6,487 stores at the end of the quarter, after opening 24 new outlets.
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