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

Sales at constant 2012 prices: results for February 2015

Measured in real terms (constant 2012 prices), wholesale trade sales decreased by 0,4% year-on-year in February 2015. Seasonally adjusted wholesale trade sales increased by 3,1% in February 2015 compared with January 2015. This followed month-on-month changes of 0,1% in January 2015 and 0,9% in December 2014.

Seasonally adjusted wholesale trade sales decreased by 0,9% in the three months ended February 2015 compared with the previous three months.


Sales at current prices: results for February 2015

Measured in nominal terms (current prices), wholesale trade sales increased by 0,4% in February 2015 compared with February 2014. The major contributor to this increase was dealers in ‘other’ goods (22,1% and contributing 1,8 percentage points).

Wholesale trade sales decreased by 0,8% in the three months ended February 2015 compared with the three months ended February 2014. The major contributor to this decrease was dealers in solid, liquid and gaseous fuels and related products (-15,7% and contributing -3,6 percentage points).