ROMANIA: Sales of food and beverages, slightly up in February | Progresiv

Trade in food, beverages and tobacco increased slightly in February, marking an advance of 1.1% based on the gross sales and a 3.6% increase in the number of working days and seasonality compared to the same month of last year, according to the National Institute of Statistics (INS).

Compared to January, sales of food, beverages and tobacco increased by 0.2% as gross series and by 1.6% according to the number of working days and seasonality.

A slight increase was also registered in terms of the development of trade with food, beverages and tobacco in the first two months of the year compared with the same period of 2016. Thus, during the first two months of this year, trade in food, beverages and tobacco registered an advance of 1% as gross series and of 3.1% as seasonally adjusted series compared to the months from January-February 2016.

Overall, retail trade, except for motor vehicles sales, rose in February compared with the same month of last year as gross series and by 4.8% as adjusted series.