ECONOMIC INTERPENETRATION / (eu) handling

In France, the group MANULO (59.2 million euro turnover in 2000), specialised in industrial handling, has taken over the French subsidiaries of the Australian BRAMBLES, i.e., MAKOLIFT and OMF which together have an annual turnover of 15.2 million euro. With these acquisitions, MANULOC expects a turnover of 122 million euro this year with a workforce of 700.