45.96% Retail 98 due to our acquisition of joint control of Aldeasa and its businesses in 30 locations in Europe, Latin America and the Middle East, whose volume of purchases reached more than €162m. > Procurement of services Although the cost of services is markedly lower than that of goods, procurement of services is still a significant cost item (22%): the total amount increased by 9% over 2004, and is mainly generated by the two widest and most ramified purchase networks North America and Italy - whose respective percentage of our total cost of services is 46% and 29%.