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Sun, 26 Jul, 2015 12:02:13 AM
FTimes Report, July 26
 
Development of value and volume of retail trade sales, June 2015, % (TOL 2008). Source: Turnover of trade, Statistics Finland.
Retail trade sales increased by 0.3 per cent year-on-year in June 2015, according to Statistics Finland’s retail trade flash estimate.
 
Over the same period, the volume of retail trade sales, from which the impact of prices has been eliminated, grew by 1.4 per cent.
 
In daily consumer goods trade, sales contracted by 0.7 per cent in June but the volume of sales went up by 0.5 per cent from the corresponding period of the previous year, the data show.
 
There were 25 weekday trading days in June 2015, which is one day more than in June 2014.
 
Daily consumer goods accounted for 48.3 per cent of turnover in retail trade in 2013, according to the structural business and financial statement statistics.
 
The retail trade flash estimate is based on a sample covering, on the average, 60 per cent of retail trade turnover.
 
Data on trade sales by industry will next be released on 14 August 2015.
 
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