Man-made fibres output up even as August retail sales touch record level
19 Oct '05
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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%) and 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.