Essilor reports an increase in sales of 23,6% for the first quarter of this year. Total sales increased to 1.269,9 million euro. Like-for-like, which means without sales which counted this quarter but not in the first quarter of 2011, sales increased with 8,5%. All regions contributed to the growth. Despite the less favourite economical circumstances sales in Europe increased with 11% mainly due to positive developments in the Northern European countries. North-America, Latin-America and the combination of Asia, Pacific and Africa did much better with growth of respectively 15,5%, 34,5% and 57,6%. In the first quarter Essilor acquired another 11 companies with combined sales of 52 million euro.
