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TABLE 1

A. TOTAL RETAIL SALES

Total Retail Sales for March

1995 (Provisional Figure) = HK$16,612.6 million

= HK$15,321,2 million

for February 1995 (Revised Figure)

TABLE 2 : VALUE AND VOLUME INDICES OF RETAIL SALES FOR FEBRUARY 1995 AND MARCH 1995

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

Index number

Type

March

Type of Outlet

of

February

March

index

1995

1995

compared with February 1995

1995 March

compared with March 1994

1995

Jan. -Kar. 1995

compared with

Jan.-Mar. 1994

(Revised

(Provisional

figures)

figures)

(Points)

(Points)

(A) FOR ALL RETAIL OUTLETS

Value

163.1

176.9

Votume

125.8

136.9

(Points) (X)

+13.8 +8.4 +8.2 +11.1 +8.8 -1.8

(Points) (Z)

+4.9 +1.3

(Points) (*)

+12.1 +6.9

+0.7

+0.5

(B) BY TYPE OF RETAIL OUTLET

B/ Food, alcoholic drinks

Value

122.5

136.1

and tobacco cother

Volume

88.2

98.9

+13.6 +11.1 +6.7 +10.8 +12.2 -1.8

+5.1 +4.5

+3.4

.

-1.8

-4.2

-4.0

then supermarkets)

Deven

Supermarkets

Value

134,0

Volume

91.4

156.5. 105.6

+22.5 +16.8 +5.1 +14.2 +15.5 -5.1°

+5.6

+3.6

-5.2

-4.5

Fuels

Value

119.2

Volume

81.0

145.4 95.1

+26.2 +14.1

+22.0 +9.1 +17.4 -3.0

+6.7 +10.9

+8.7

-3.0 +0.1

+0.1

L

Clothing, footwear and

Value

195.6

238.7

+43.1

allfed products

Volume

136.0

166.0

+29.9

+22.0 +19.6 +22.01 -5.9

48.9 +30.8 +12.7 -3.4 +1.5 +0.8

Consumer durable goods.

Value

189.5

155.5

■

Volume

148.2

127.7

-18.01 --34.1

-31.7 -16.9 -8.7 --4.6 -20.5 -13.8 -31.4 -19.7 -15.2 .-9.5

: Motor vehicles

and parts

Value

225,1

120.3

Volume

151.4

80.8

+

-104,6 70.6

+46.6 -55.9 -31.7 -23.3 -11.8 -46.6 #49.9 -30.2 -30.2 -20.5

Consumer durable:ş.

Value

163.8

180.9

+17.1

:

goods other than

Volume

145.9

161.7

+15.8

+10.5 -14.2 +10.5

-7.3 +1.9 +1.1

18.0

-10.0

-4.3 -2.6

motor vehicles

and parts

Department stores

Value

142.7

145.2

+2.5

+1.7

+6.1

+4.4

+8.1 +5.0

Volume

103.4

104.5

+1.1

+1.1

-5.8

-5.3

-5.4 -4.2

Jewellery, watches

Value

174.2

and clocks, and

Volume

166.2

210.9 : 199.3

+36.7 +21.1 +24.5 +33.1 +19.9! +20.5

13.1 +24.0 +13.4 +11.4 +22.0 +12.9

valuable gifts

Other consumer goods

Value

not elsewhere

Volume

186.7 144.1

218.5 166.7

+31.8 +17.0 +42.4 +22.5 +15.6 +25.0

+24.1 +29.1 +15.9 +17.7 +14.8 +9.9

classified

NOTE :

Not including supermarkets operating in department stores.

End/Thursday, May 25, 1995