In connection with the strong business growth and the acquisitions of international dealers during the past 12 months, the number of employees increased by 5% to 22,629 as of 30 September 2012 compared to a number of staff of 21,536 as of 30 September 2011. Due to first time consolidations of international dealers in the last three months of 2011 and the first nine months of 2012, the number of full-time-employees increased by 447.