BADEN-BADEN (dpa-AFX) - Leasing specialist Grenke has made significantly more new business in 2022. The volume of new leasing business rose by around 39 percent to 2.3 billion euros, the SDax-listed company announced in Baden-Baden on Wednesday. Grenke thus reached the upper end of its forecast range of 2.1 to 2.3 billion euros, which was raised in October. The contribution margin, i.e. the difference between revenues and variable costs, did not increase quite as strongly. It climbed by a good 26 percent to just under 370 million euros. The margin measured against the contribution margin therefore fell by one and a half percentage points to 16.1 percent. For some time now, Grenke has been focusing more on contracts with larger volumes, which are generally not as profitable./zb/jha/