IMPROVING LIVES THROUGH DATA ECOSYSTEMS

Sales at constant 2012 prices: results for April 2015

Measured in real terms (constant 2012 prices), wholesale trade sales decreased by 6,3% year-on-year in April 2015. Seasonally adjusted wholesale trade sales decreased by 6,5% in April 2015 compared with March 2015. This followed month-on-month changes of 3,0% in March 2015 and 2,0% in February 2015.

Seasonally adjusted wholesale trade sales increased by 2,0% in the three months ended April 2015 compared with the previous three months.

Sales at current prices: results for April 2015

Measured in nominal terms (current prices), wholesale trade sales decreased by 4,1% in April 2015 compared with April 2014. The major contributor to this decrease was dealers in solid, liquid and gaseous fuels and related products (-19,5% and contributing -4,5 percentage points).

Wholesale trade sales increased by 0,2% in the three months ended April 2015 compared with the three months ended April 2014. The largest positive contributors to this increase were dealers in:
• food, beverages and tobacco (7,7% and contributing 1,2 percentage points);
• ‘other’ goods (13,4% and contributing 1,1 percentage points); and
• ‘other’ household goods except precious stones (10,3% and contributing 1,0 percentage point).

Dealers in solid, liquid and gaseous fuels and related products was a significant negative contributor (-15,8% and contributing -3,6 percentage points).