Finland Times

‘In daily consumer goods trade, sales fell by 1.6 percentage points and in department store trade by 3.8 percentage points from one year ago,’ show the Statistics Finland’s data.

By contrast, wholesales increased by 4.5 percentage points and motor vehicle sales by 10 percentage points from one year ago.

Thus, sales went up in total trade by 3.3 percentage points from June 2013.

In June, the sales volume in retail trade contracted by 1.4 percentage points while that in wholesale increased by 5.0 percentage points from one year ago. 

In motor vehicle trade, the sales volume grew by 9.8 percentage points from June 2013. In total trade, the sales volume went up by 3.7 percentage points from the corresponding period of the previous year, according to the statistics. 

The total trade sales in the first half of 2014 fell by 0.3 percentage points over the previous year. In January to June, retail sales contracted by 0.6 percentage points and wholesales by 1.1 percentage points compared to the corresponding period in last year. Motor vehicle sales grew by 4.0 percentage points from January to June 2013, the data show.