HELSINKI: The sales of retail trade rose by 2.0 per cent year-on-year in May 2016, according to Statistics Finland’s retail trade flash estimate. Over the same period, the volume of retail trade sales, from which the impact of prices has been eliminated, grew by 3.2 per cent.
In daily consumer goods trade, the sales increased by 2.6 per cent and the sales volume by 3.7 per cent in May from the corresponding period of the previous year. The turnover developed weaker than sales volume both in retail trade and in daily consumer goods trade due to fallen prices. Daily consumer goods accounted for 48.9 per cent of turnover in retail trade in 2014, the structural business and financial statement statistics show. The retail trade flash estimate is based on a sample covering, on the average, 60 per cent of retail trade turnover.
