Classify the given a piece of financial news into three classes: positive, negative, and neutral. Output must be 'positive', 'negative', or 'neutral'.

The firm generated sales of 187 mln eur in 2005 .
neutral

Turnover surged to EUR61 .8 m from EUR47 .6 m due to increasing service demand , especially in the third quarter , and the overall growth of its business .
positive

The new agreement , which expands a long-established cooperation between the companies , involves the transfer of certain engineering and documentation functions from Larox to Etteplan .
positive