Department stores & clothing register moderate growth in April
30 May '06
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Industry Trends: Monthly Seasonally Adjusted And Trend Estimates as follows:
Total Retail: There has been moderate trend growth for the last five months. Hospitality and services had moderate growth in April 2006 after six months of strong growth and Other retailing has had six months of strong growth to April 2006.
Department stores and Clothing and soft good retailing have had moderate trend growth for at least three months.
Department Stores There has been moderate trend growth for the last four months. There has been strong growth in Western Australia and Victoria for five and two months respectively.
All other published states had moderate trend growth in April 2006.
Clothing And Soft Good Retailing The trend growth has been moderate for the last three months. The trend growth for New South Wales has increased to being moderate in April 2006 after two months of weak growth.
In April 2006, Victoria had weak trend growth while Queensland was in decline. By contrast, Western Australia, Tasmania and South Australia have had strong trend growth for at least four months.