Hornbach’s tenth branch in Austria is to open at St. Pölten before the end of the Hornbach financial year, which means before the end of February 2003. The store will have a weighted overall retail area of 11 901 m². As a result, the total weighted retail area of all the Austrian Hornbach outlets will increase to 117 008 m². The largest of these is the store in Krems, which comes to 13 237 m².