Retail Trade - October 2005

Seasonally adjusted retail sales (CZ-NACE 52) were up by 0.3% month-on-month in October, the same growth of the trend component meant a moderate slowdown when compared to the previous two months Table 1).

Graph 1
Under the same number of working days in October 2004 and 2005, not seasonally adjusted sales grew by 3.4% year-on-year, the sale of non-food goods was up by 4.7% and the sale of food, beverages and tobacco by 1.7%. It has already been a twenty-third month of a continuous growth of retail trade.

Sales in the individual assortment types of stores:

- non-specialised stores: sales grew by 3.0%, of which by 9.1% in stores with non-food goods predominating (the highest share in the total growth of retail sales) and by 1.6% in stores with food, beverages and tobacco predominating. Sales of non-food goods grew in all size groups of enterprises, mainly in big chain stores;

- specialised stores: sale of non-food goods grew faster (+3.9%) than sale of food, beverages and tobacco (+2.6%). Sales of non-food goods grew in all size groups of stores, enterprises selling food, beverages and tobacco and having 20 to 99 employees did not exceed the results of October 2004;

- in specialised stores with non-food goods, consumers showed increased interest in textile, clothing and footwear (+10.2%); pharmaceutical and medical goods, cosmetic and toilet articles (+6.1%) and electronics, electrical appliances, hardware, furniture and other household articles sold well (+5.7%, the second highest share in the total growth of retail sales). Sale of books, newspapers and stationery and other retail sale in specialised stores grew only slightly (+0.3%).


In October, according to data presented by Eurostat, seasonally adjusted retail sales in the EU25 were 0.2% up month-on-month and 1.4% up year-on-year (working days adjusted). Among member states for which data were available, year-on-year increases in sales were observed in Latvia (+21.6%), Lithuania (+16.4%), Slovakia (+12.4%), Poland (+7.7%), Denmark and Sweden (both +7.4%), Finland (+5.2%), Slovenia (+4.5%), Luxembourg (+1.7%), the United Kingdom (+1.5%) and Germany (+0.2%). Decreases were reported for Belgium (-2.0%), Portugal (-0.8%) and Spain (-0.2%).
Not seasonally adjusted sales in the automotive segment (CZ-NACE 50) grew by 1.5% year-on-year at constant prices . Sale, maintenance and repair of motor vehicles rose by 3.7%, sale of automotive fuel was 1.8% below last year’s level.

In retail trade incl. the automotive segment (CZ-NACE 52+50) , seasonally adjusted sales grew by 0.6% month-on-month and not seasonally adjusted sales rose by 2.8% 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: alena.hellerova@csu.gov.cz
Data source: CZSO direct survey in enterprises
End of data collection: 6 December 2005
End of data processing: 12 December 2005
The data for October 2005 are preliminary, further data refinement should take place when data for December 2005 are processed. Final data for all months of 2005 will be known in June 2006.
Monthly data since 1997 are available as time series ( /produkty/slu_cr