HELSINKI: Sales in retail trade went down by 0.3 per cent year-on-year in July 2015, 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 0.9 per cent.
In daily consumer goods trade, sales contracted by 2.8 per cent and the sales volume by 1.2 per cent in July from the corresponding period of the previous year, the data show. There were 27 weekday trading days in July 2015, which is the same as in July 2014. Weekday trading days refer to the weekdays of a calendar month excluding mid-week holidays.
According to the Structural business and financial statement statistics, daily consumer goods accounted for 48.3 per cent of turnover in retail trade in 2013. The retail trade flash estimate is based on a sample covering, on the average, 60 per cent of retail trade turnover
