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SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1991

TABLE 1 : TOTAL RETAIL SALES

Total Retail Sales for October 1990 (Provisional Pigure)

for September 1990 (Revised Figure)

= HK$9,736 million - HK$9,397 million

TABLE 2 : VALUE AND VOLUME INDEXES OF RETAIL SALES

PO1 SEPTEMBER 1990 AND OCTOBBE 1990

(Monthly average of Oct. 1 Sept. 85 = 100)

Index of

1ten

Retail

1 September

October

October 1990 compared with

October 1990 compared with

Jan.-Oct. 1990 |

compared with

¦

¦ Sales

1990

1990

¦ September 1990 |

October 1989 | Jan.-Oct. 1989 | +

1

[Revised

Provisional

Points

Points

Points

|

figures) 1 figures)

| (A) POR ALL RETAIL TRADES

¦ Value

168

174

+6

+14

+91

+11

¦ Volume

121

134

+1

+1 1

1

(B) BY HAJOR TRADE GROUPS

Foodstuffs, alcoholic drinks and tobacco

¦ Value

179

177

-2

+10

+11 |

+10

+13

Volume

130

130

#

+6

+7

Fuels

¦ Valve

162

173

+11

+47

+34

: Volone

126

126

}

#

+1

+1 |

+2

Clothing, footwear

Valce

174

181

+10

+12

+7

+9

+5

and allied products

Volume

116

131

+5

-1

Consumer durables

! Value

169

168

-1

+23

+16

+14

+

Tolyne

121

120

-1

-11

+12

+11

+5

Other consumer goods

Value

160

172

+12

+1 |

Volose

116

124

+1

-7

-51

-5

t

(C) BY SELECTED TRADES

(see note 1 below) Supermarkets

¦ Value

231

199

| Tolone

161

134

22

-32

-14

-24

-15

27

+9

+5 1

+31

+17

-7

-51

+7

Motor vehicles

and parts

¦ Talve

297

¦ Volume

101

ཏྲྰཾཎྜ

217

-11

+11

174

-1

-41

-1

-1

-2

|

Consumer durables

Vaine

129

132

+2

+27

+25 |

+1]

+12

other than notor vehicles and parts

Volese

102

103

+1

+1

+17

+20 |

+1

Depart eat stores

Value

211

207

+26

+12

+29

+14

+26

+13

¦ Volone

143

159

1

+15

+11

+6 1 +T

+5 |

NOTES 1. In order to analyse the sales of certain trades WITHIN major trade groups, the value and volume indexes

in respect of the following selected trades are compiled :

(a) "Supermarkets' a trade in the "Foodstuffs, alcoholic drinks and tobacco" group.

(b) "Motor vehicles and parts a trade in the "Consumer durables' group.

+

c) "Consumer durables other than motor vehicles and parts" a trade in the "Consumer durables" group.

(d) Department stores" a trade in the "Other consumer goods" group.

2. Pigures denoting changes are derived from the unrounded index figures.

3. *

denotes a figure within 10.5.

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