As the global economy has shown signs of picking up, Hong Kong’s value of total retail sales in July 2010, provisionally estimated at HK$27.2 billion, up 18.9% over a year earlier, according to the latest figures released by the Census and Statistics Department.
Taking the first seven months of 2010 together, total retail sales increased by 18.0% in value or 14.9% in volume over the same period a year earlier. Footwear and allied products and other clothing accessories (+18.2%); commodities in department stores (+16.2%); wearing apparel (+14.1%); miscellaneous consumer goods (+9.9%); food, alcoholic drinks and tobacco (+7.3%); furniture and fixtures (+7.1%); commodities in supermarkets (+4.7%); and fuels (+4.0%).
