Retail Trade - August 2005

Seasonally adjusted retail sales (CZ-NACE 52) grew by 1.1% month-on-month at constant prices. The trend component rose by 0.4% m-o-m, which was, if expressed by figure on two decimal places, the highest increase since January 2003 (Table 1).

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Seasonally adjusted (SA) and working days adjusted (WDA) sales at constant prices were up by 4.2% year-on-year. The number of working days being higher this year (+1), not seasonally adjusted sales grew by 5.9% (the highest growth since November 2004), of which sale of food, beverages and tobacco was up by 3.5% and sale of non-food goods by 7.9%.

Not seasonally adjusted sales in individual assortment types of stores:

- non-specialised stores: sales grew by 3.9%, of which in stores with non-food goods predominating faster (+9.3%) than in stores with food, beverages or tobacco predominating (+2.6%). Among stores with non-food goods predominating, particularly sales of enterprises with 100+ employees were on the increase;

- specialised stores: sale of food, beverages and tobacco (+8.3%) and sale of non-food goods (+7.2%) rose considerably. This was the highest growth in this year in both types of stores;

- specialised stores with non-food goods reached a growth of sales that was by 3.8 percentage points higher than in last 12 months, the highest increases were recorded for sale of textile, clothing and footwear (+15.9%), electronics, electrical appliances, hardware, furniture and other household goods (+10.7%) and pharmaceutical and medical goods, cosmetic and toilet articles (+9.7%);

- sale via stalls and markets and other non-store retail sale grew by 19.9%, sale via mail order houses by 10.8%, while sale of second-hand goods in stores fell by 1.3%. However, the percentage of these types of sale in total sales is insignificant.

In August, according to Eurostat estimate, seasonally adjusted retail sales in the EU25 were up by 0.7% month-on-month and up by 2.2% year-on-year (working days adjusted). Among member states for which data were available, y-o-y increases in sales were observed in Latvia (+22.6%), Lithuania (+14.0%), Slovenia (+13.8%), Slovakia (+11.6%), Denmark (+9.2%), Belgium (+6.7%), Sweden (+6.3%), Finland (+6.2%), France (+4.1%), Poland (+3.7%), Spain (+2.5%), Portugal (+1.2%) and the United Kingdom (+0.9%). Decreases were reported for Luxembourg (-4.4%) and Germany (-0.8%).

Not seasonally adjusted sales in the automotive segment (CZ-NACE 50) grew by 7.0% year-on-year at constant prices, of which sale of automotive fuel by 9.7% and maintenance and repair of motor vehicles by 5.2%.

In retail trade incl. the automotive segment (CZ-NACE 52+50) , seasonally adjusted sales dropped by 0.1% month-on-month and not seasonally adjusted sales rose by 6.3% year-on-year, both at constant prices.

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Note
1) The whole time series is seasonally adjusted every month, indices in the graph are changed retroactively.

Contact: Alena Hellerova, tel. (+420) 274052921, e-mail: ahellerova@gw.czso.cz
Data source: CZSO direct survey in enterprises
End of data collection: 6 October 2005
End of data processing: 12 October 2005
The data are preliminary; revised data for all months of 2005 will be known in June 2006.
Monthly data since 1997 are available as time series ( /produkty/slu_cr ).