IMPROVING LIVES THROUGH DATA ECOSYSTEMS

Sales at constant 2012 prices: results for January 2016

Measured in real terms (constant 2012 prices), wholesale trade sales decreased by 4,0% in January 2016 compared with January 2015. Seasonally adjusted wholesale trade sales decreased by 1,0% in January 2016 compared with December 2015. This followed month-on-month changes of 0,4% in December 2015 and -1,9% in November 2015.
 
In the three months ended January 2016, seasonally adjusted wholesale trade sales decreased by 1,7% compared with the previous three months.
 

Sales at current prices: results for January 2016

Measured in nominal terms (current prices), wholesale trade sales increased by 5,9% in January 2016 compared with January 2015. The main contributor to this increase was dealers in machinery, equipment and supplies (30,1% and contributing 5,1 percentage points).

Wholesale trade sales increased by 5,8% in the three months ended January 2016 compared with the three months ended January 2015. The main positive contributors to this increase were dealers in:

• machinery, equipment and supplies (15,8% and contributing 2,5 percentage points);
• agricultural raw materials and livestock (27,1% and contributing 2,0 percentage points); and
• food, beverages and tobacco (6,2% and contributing 1,0 percentage point).