Textiles, clothing & footwear retail sales up 9.7% in June'05

29 Aug '05

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Czech statistical office presented the retails sales results for June 2005.

Seasonally adjusted retail sales (CZ-NACE 52) grew by 0.1% m-o-m at constant prices. The trend component rose by approx. 0.2% m-o-m, its growth remained roughly at the level of May.

Not seasonally adjusted sales at constant prices have been increasing y-o-y for last nineteen months, and the growth in June reached the same level as the average for last 12 months (3.0%). Sales of non-food goods were up by 3.5% and of food, beverages and tobacco by 2.4%, under the same number of working days in June 2004 and June 2005.

Not seasonally adjusted sales in individual assortment types of stores:

- non-specialised stores: sales grew by 2.6%, of which in stores with non-food goods predominating by 4.2% and in stores with food, beverages or tobacco predominating by 2.1%. Decisive for both groups of stores were sales by enterprises with 100 or more employees;

- specialised stores: sale of food, beverages and tobacco increased by 3.7% and sale of non-food goods by 3.3%;

- consumers' demand continued for pharmaceutical and medical goods, cosmetic and toilet articles (+11.8%), sales grew in all size groups of stores except stores without employees. The long-term increases continued in sale of textiles, clothing and footwear (+9.7%) and sale of electronics, electrical appliances, hardware, furniture and other household goods (+2.6%). Lower sales were recorded for books, newspapers and stationery and other retail sale in specialised stores (-0.7%), which was affected by lower sales of enterprises in the size group 1-19 employees;

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