ROMANIA: Sales of foods and beverages, up by 19.4% in the first eight months | Progresiv

Trade on foods, beverages and tobacco reported a gross increase of 19.4% in the first eight months of 2016 and seasonally adjusted sales reported an advance of 19.6% compared to the same period of last year, according to data published by the National Institute of Statistics (INS).

In August, sales of food and beverages increased by 5.9% as gross series and by 9.5% as adjusted series compared to August of the previous year.

Compared with July 2016 sales of food, beverages and tobacco registered a slight advance in August, of 0.5% as gross series and 0.3% as adjusted series.

Overall, the turnover of retail trade (except for trade of motor vehicles and motorcycles) registered in the first eight months of 2016 an increase of 16.3% as gross series and 15.9% depending on the number of working days and seasonality compared to the same period of last year, according to INS.