Key findings: P6141.2 - Wholesale trade sales, July 2014

Sales at constant 2012 prices: results for July 2014

Measured in real terms (constant 2012 prices), wholesale trade sales decreased by 4,6% year-on-year in July 2014. Seasonally adjusted wholesale trade sales decreased by 5,2% in July 2014 compared with June 2014. This followed month-on-month changes of 2,6% in June 2014 and -1,4% in May 2014.

Seasonally adjusted wholesale trade sales decreased by 1,9% in the three months ended July 2014 compared with the previous three months.

Sales at current prices: results for July 2014

Measured in nominal terms (current prices), wholesale trade sales increased by 2,6% in July 2014 compared with July 2013. The major contributor to this increase was dealers in solid, liquid and gaseous fuels and related products (11,0% and contributing 2,5 percentage points).

Wholesale trade sales increased by 6,2% in the three months ended July 2014 compared with the three months ended July 2013. The major contributors to this increase were dealers in:

  • solid, liquid and gaseous fuels and related products (11,5% and contributing 2,6 percentage points); and
  • food, beverages and tobacco (8,0% and contributing 1,3 percentage points).