IMPROVING LIVES THROUGH DATA ECOSYSTEMS

Sales at constant 2012 prices: results for August 2015

Measured in real terms (constant 2012 prices), wholesale trade sales decreased by 0,1% year-on-year in August 2015. Seasonally adjusted wholesale trade sales decreased by 1,0% in August 2015 compared with July 2015. This followed month-on-month changes of 1,0% in July 2015 and -0,5% in June 2015.
 
Seasonally adjusted wholesale trade sales decreased by 0,3% in the three months ended August 2015 compared with the previous three months.

Sales at current prices: results for August 2015

Measured in nominal terms (current prices), wholesale trade sales increased by 0,3% in August 2015 compared with August 2014. The major positive contributors to this increase were dealers in:

• machinery, equipment and supplies (10,4% and contributing 1,6 percentage points); and
• agricultural raw materials and livestock (20,2% and contributing 1,2 percentage points).

A significant negative contributor was dealers in solid, liquid and gaseous fuels and related products (-14,9% and contributing -3,4 percentage points).

Wholesale trade sales increased by 3,2% in the three months ended August 2015 compared with the three months ended August 2014. The major contributors to this increase were dealers in:

• machinery, equipment and supplies (10,9% and contributing 1,7 percentage points);
• construction and building materials (13,8% and contributing 0,8 of a percentage point); and
• 'other' household goods except precious stones (7,2% and contributing 0,7 of a percentage point).