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;
- as to the less significant types of sale with a low share in total retail sales, on the increase were sale via mail order houses (+12.8%), sale of second-hand goods in stores (+4.7%) and sale via stalls and markets and other non-store retail sale (+2.2%).
In June, according to Eurostat estimates, seasonally adjusted retail sales in the EU25 were up by 0.5% m-o-m and 1.7% y-o-y (working days adjusted). Among member states for which data were available, y-o-y increases in sales were observed in Lithuania (+13.6%), Denmark (+9.6%), Sweden (+9.5%), Slovakia (+8.1%), Slovenia (+7.6%), Finland (+6.1%), Belgium (+3.0%), the United Kingdom (+2.0%), Portugal (+1.9%), Spain (+1.4%), Poland (+1.2%), France (+0.8%) and Germany (+0.5%). A decrease was reported for Luxembourg (-1.8%).
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