Key findings: P6141.2 - Wholesale trade sales, January 2015

Sales at constant 2012 prices: results for January 2015

Measured in real terms (constant 2012 prices), wholesale trade sales decreased by 7,0% year-on-year in January 2015. Seasonally adjusted wholesale trade sales decreased by 0,3% in January 2015 compared with December 2014. This followed month-on-month changes of 0,9% in December 2014 and -2,7% in November 2014.

Seasonally adjusted wholesale trade sales decreased by 4,0% in the three months ended January 2015 compared with the previous three months.

Sales at current prices: results for January 2015

Measured in nominal terms (current prices), wholesale trade sales decreased by 5,4% in January 2015 compared with January 2014. The major contributor to this decrease was dealers in solid, liquid and gaseous fuels and related products (-21,4% and contributing -5,2 percentage points).

Wholesale trade sales decreased by 2,3% in the three months ended January 2015 compared with the three months ended January 2014. The major contributor to this decrease was dealers in solid, liquid and gaseous fuels and related products (-12,7% and contributing -2,9 percentage points).