Retail Trade - April 2004
Stable growth of retail sales
Publication Date: 16. 06. 2004
Product Code: r-9101-04
Month-on-month comparison:
In April, compared with March, seasonally adjusted constant price retail sales incl. the automotive segment increased by 1.7%. This development was particularly affected by higher sales in the automotive segment (+4.1%), particularly sale of motor vehicles (+9.1%). Also sale of food (+0.8%) and sale of non-food goods (+0.4%) grew.
Year-on-year comparison :
Seasonally adjusted constant price retail sales incl. the automotive segment were 2.9% up, which was by 1.6 percentage points more than the average for the preceding three months, but by 0.9 percentage points less than the average for the preceding 12 months.
Not seasonally adjusted sales rose by 2.6%, most in enterprises with 100 or more employees (+7.6%), whereas entrepreneurs without employees sold by 9.3% less than in April 2003.
Sales in the automotive segment increased by 0.9%. Sale of motor vehicles was 4.3% up, in spite of a lower number of the new cars sold. On the other hand, down were maintenance and repair of motor vehicles (-2.5%) and sale of automotive fuel (-1.6%); the first y-o-y fall since February 2001 was recorded for the latter.
Sales in retail trade (excl. the automotive segment) grew by 3.4%, non-food goods sold better (+4.3%) than food (+2.4%). Sales in the individual assortment types of stores developed as follows:
- sales in non-specialised stores varied. While stores with food, beverages or tobacco predominating reported higher sales (+2.4%), sales in stores with non-food goods predominating were lower (-4.6%), mainly due to decreasing sales by entrepreneurs without employees and enterprises with 100 or more employees;
- specialised stores raised their sale of non-food goods in all size groups of stores (+6.5% in total) and sale of food, beverages and tobacco (+2.6%);
- sales in stores with textiles, clothing and footwear (+14.8%) and in stores selling furniture, electrical household appliances, hardware and other household equipment (+12.3%) continued to grow considerably. Higher sales were also achieved in the remaining specialised stores – with pharmaceutical and medical goods, cosmetic and toilet articles (+5.0%) and with books, newspapers and stationery and other retail sale in specialised stores (+2.2%)%;
- sales via stalls and markets grew by 1.5% and sale of second-hand goods rose by 0.4%, whereas sale via mail order houses fell by 7.7%.
International comparison:
According to the first estimates of Eurostat, seasonally adjusted sales in retail trade excl. the automotive segment in the EU-25 grew by 0.7% m-o-m; in y-o-y terms, not seasonally adjusted sales increased by 2.2%.
Note
Contact: Alena Hellerová, phone (+420) 274 052 921, e-mail: ahellerova@gw.czso.cz
Data source: CZSO direct survey in enterprises
End of data collection: 7 June 2004
End of data processing: 11 June 2004
Related publication: 9106-04 Monthly Survey in Retail Trade, Hotels and Restaurants ( https://csu.gov.cz )
The data are preliminary; revised data for April 2004 will be released in following two monthly News Releases; final data for each month of the year 2004 will be known in June 2005.