Retail Trade - January 2005
Retail trade started the new year promisingly
Publication Date: 17. 03. 2005
Product Code: r-9101-05
Seasonally adjusted constant price retail sales (CZ-NACE 52) grew by 0.6% month-on-month . Trend rose by 0.3% m-o-m, i.e. the growth slightly accelerated, compared to the two preceding months (Table 1).
Graph 1
Not seasonally adjusted constant price retail sales were up by 3.7% year-on-year (under the same number of working days in January 2005 and 2004), of which sale of non-food goods grew by 3.8% and sale of food by 3.4%.
Sales in the individual assortment types of stores developed:
- sales in non-specialised stores increased by 2.1%, but only enterprises with 100 or more employees reported growth (+6.8%). Sales rose by 2.9% in stores with food, beverages or tobacco predominating (which make up 85% of the total sales of food) and dropped by 0.9% in stores selling predominantly non-food goods;
- specialised stores saw faster growing sale of food, beverages and tobacco (+6.3%) than sale of non-food goods (+4.6%). All size groups of stores contributed to the higher sale of food, beverages and tobacco. In non-food goods, sales in enterprises with 1-19 employees were not higher y-o-y (these enterprises account for nearly half of total sales of non-food goods); the other size groups of stores reported relatively high increases;
- among stores selling non-good goods, the highest sale increases occurred in electronics, electrical appliances, hardware, furniture and other household goods (+11.8%) and textiles, clothing and footwear (+9.0%). Lower increases were recorded by stores with pharmaceutincal and medical goods, cosmetic and toilet articles (+3.1%) and other non-food goods (books, newspapers, stationery, etc.) (+0.9%);
- sale via mail order houses , which is of small importance, grew significantly (+19.6%), sale via stalls and markets and other non-store retail sale rose (+7.7%); on the other hand, the long-term fall in sale of second-hand goods continued (-13.6%).
In January, according to Eurostat estimates, seasonally adjusted retail sales in the EU25 grew by 0.1% m-o-m and by 0.9% y-o-y (working days adjusted). Among Member States for which data are available, sales increased y-o-y in Slovakia (+8.0%), Lithuania (+7.7%), Denmark (+7.5%), Sweden (+6.9%), the United Kingdom (+3.8%), Poland and Spain (both +2.1%). On the other hand, sales fell in Belgium (-4.5%), Luxembourg (-1.7%), France (-0.7%) and Germany (-0.4%).
Not seasonally adjusted constant price sales in the automotive segment (CZ-NACE 50) rose by 14.0% y-o-y. In particular sale of automotive fuel (+18.9%) and sale of motor vehicles (+14.0%) were up, whereas maintenance and repair of motor vehicles grew by only 1.4%.
Sales in retail trade incl. the automotive segment (CZ-NACE 52+50) increased by 6.6%.
Note
1) The whole time series is seasonally adjusted every month, indices in the graph are subject to retroactive changes.
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: 9 March 2005
End of data processing: 12 March 2005
The data are preliminary; revised data for each month of 2005 will be known in June 2006.
Monthly data since 1997 are available as time series ( /slu_ts ).