ROMANIA: Food, beverages and tobacco sales rose by 27% in April | Progresiv

Food, beverages and tobacco trade reported in April this year an advance of 27% by number of working days and seasonality and an increase of 29.1% based on the gross sales compared to April 2015, according to the National Institute of Statistics (INS).

Compared to March, sales of food, beverages and tobacco rose by 9.5% in April as gross series and by 1.6% as adjusted series.

Regarding the evolution of food, beverages and tobacco trade in the first four months of the year, they increased by 28.1% as gross series, respectively, by 26.5% as adjusted series.

Overall, retail trade, excluding motor vehicle sales, increased between January-April 2016 by 19.1% as gross series and by 17.7% as adjusted series compared to the same period of 2015.