IMPROVING LIVES THROUGH DATA ECOSYSTEMS

Sales at constant 2012 prices: results for June 2015

Measured in real terms (constant 2012 prices), wholesale trade sales increased by 0,4% year-on-year in June 2015. Seasonally adjusted wholesale trade sales decreased by 0,5% in June 2015 compared with May 2015. This followed month-on-month changes of 3,4% in May 2015 and -6,0% in April 2015.
 
Seasonally adjusted wholesale trade sales decreased by 1,6% in the second quarter of 2015 compared with the previous quarter.

Sales at current prices: results for June 2015

Measured in nominal terms (current prices), wholesale trade sales increased by 3,5% in June 2015 compared with June 2014. The major contributor to this increase was dealers in machinery, equipment and supplies (12,8% and contributing 1,9 percentage points).

Wholesale trade sales increased by 0,6% in the second quarter of 2015 compared with the second quarter of 2014. The major contributors to this increase were dealers in:

• food, beverages and tobacco (3,8% and contributing 0,6 of a percentage point);
• machinery, equipment and supplies (3,7% and contributing 0,6 of a percentage point);
• construction and building materials (8,7% and contributing 0,5 of a percentage point); and
• 'other' household goods except precious stones (4,6% and contributing 0,5 of a percentage point).

Dealers in solid, liquid and gaseous fuels and related products was a significant negative contributor (-10,4% and contributing -2,4 percentage points).