ROMANIA: Food and beverages sales rose by 21% in July | Progresiv

Food, beverages and tobacco sales in Romania rose  by 23.1% in July, in terms of gross series and by 21.7% according to seasonality and working days compared with July last year, according to National Institute of Statistics (INS).

Compared to June of this year, gross sales grew only by 5.8%, while the seasonally adjusted sales reported an advance of 0.4%. In the first seven months of this year, sales of food and beverages reported an advance of 12.3% as gross series and 12.3% depending on seasonality compared to the same period of last year.

Overall, the volume of turnover of retail trade (except for trade of motor vehicles and motorcycles) reported in the first seven months of 2015 an increase of 5.6% as gross series and 5.5% depending on the number of working days and seasonality, compared with the same period last year, according to the INS.