PARIS (Reuters) - France's Vinci (PA:SGEF) posted a 5.1 percent rise in first-quarter sales on Thursday, helped by acquisitions, a robust concessions activity and a recovering French construction market.
Europe's biggest construction and concessions company kept forecasts that profits and revenue would rise this year.
Total revenue reached 8.437 billion euros (7.05 billion pounds) in the quarter. Excluding currency fluctuations and changes in scope, sales rose 3.5 percent year-on-year, Vinci said.
Order intake for the quarter was 9.5 billion euros, up 9 percent from the same period a year earlier.