ROMANIA: Food and beverages sales rose by 25% in August | Progresiv

Gross sales of foods, beverages and tobacco increased by 24.2% in August, while the seasonally adjusted sales reported an advance of 25% compared to the same month of last year. It is the largest monthly increase this year compared to the results in the same month of the previous year.

Compared with July, sales of foods and beverages reported an advance of 4.6% as gross series and 2% depending on seasonality, announced the National Institute of Statistics (INS).

In the first eight months of 2015 the volume of turnover in food, beverages and tobacco trade increased by 14.8% as gross series and by 14% according to seasonality and working days compared to the same period of last year.

Overall, the turnover of retail trade (except for trade of motor vehicles and motorcycles) registered in the first eight months of 2015 an increase of 6.2% as gross series, respectively of 5.8% depending on the number of working days and seasonality, compared with the same period of last year, according to the INS.