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TABLE 1: TOTAL RETAIL SALES

Total Retail Sales for October 1994 (Provisional Figure)

for September1994 (Revised Figure)

HKS17, 132.5 million

= HK$16,749.5 million

TABLE 2. :. VALUE AND VOLUME INDICES OF RETAIL SALES FOR SEPTEMBER 1994 AND OCTOBER 1996

(Monthly average of Oct. 89 - Sept. 90 = 100)

Index number

Type

October 1994

October 1994

Type of Outlet

of

September

index

1994

(Revised

October

1994 (Provisional

compared with

September 1994

compared with October

1993

Jan.-Oct. 1994 compared with Jan.-Oct. 1993

figures)

figures)

(Points)

(Points)

(Points) (*)

(Points) (*)

(Points) (X)

(A) FOR ALL RETAIL OUTLETS

Value

178.4

182.4

+4.1

+2.3

+19.3

+11.8 +19.3 +12.3

Volume

139.2

139.9

+0.7

+0.5

+6.1

+4.5 +8.2 +6.2

(8) BY TYPE OF RETAIL OUTLET

Foodstuffs, alcoholic

drinks and tobacco

(other than

supermarkets)

Supermarkets

Value

147.2

$40.4

-6.8

-4.6

+8.4

Volume

108.8

106.3

-2.5

-2.3

+5.8

+6.3 +10.1 +5.7

+8.1

+4.0

+4.0

Value

165.3

151.9

Volume

116.1

106.0

- 13.5 -10.0

-8.1 -8.7 +1.7

+12.5

+8.9 +1.6

+15.3 +11.0

+6.1

+3.8

Fuels

Value

169.0

166.3

-2.7

-1.6 -1.7

Volume

116.3

114.5

-1.9

-1.6 -8.3

-1.0 +6.7 -6.8

+4+5

Clothing, footwear and

Vatue

238.7

259.4

+20.7

allied products

Volume

168.2

173.4

+5.2

+8.7 +57.5 +3.1 +20.0

+28.5 +53.5 +27.2 +13.0 +26.4 +17.2

Consumer durable goods

Value

190.7

176.6

-14.1

Volume

158.2

142.8

-15.4

-7.4

+1.4 -9.7 -5.0

+0.8

+4.8 +2.7 -3.4 -1.5 -1.0

Motor vehicles

Value

180.9

181.8

+0.9

and parts

Volume

128.0

125.7

-2.2

+0.5 -25.1 -1.7 +31.8

-12.1

-20.2

-6.8 -3.6 -15.4 -10.3

-

Consumer durable

Value

197.8

172.9

goods other than

Volume

180.1

155.2

-24.9 -12.6 +20.6 -24.9 -13.8 +14.5

+13.5 +10.3 +8.5 +5.5

+13.2 +8.1

motor vehicles

and parts

Department stores

Value

137.7

143.1

+5.5

Volume

101.8

101.5

-0.4

+4.0 +12.0 -0.4 -0.5

+9.1 +11.3

+8,1 -0.5 +1.5 +1.3

Jewellery, watches

Value

153.7

169.6

+15.9

+10.3 +9.9

and clocks, and

Volume

145.8

158.5

+12.7

+8.7 -1.8

*6.2 +18.8 +12.5 -1.1 +8.4 +5.5

valuable gifts

Other consumer goods

Value

227.0

254.4

+27.4

+12.1 +54.2

+27.1 +36.8 +21.7

not elsewhere

Volume

177.8

197.5

+19.7

+11.1 +34.9 +21.5 +24.1 +17.2

classified

NOTE:

Not including supermarkets operating in department stores.

# Change within ±0.05

End/Friday, December 23, 1994