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TABLE 1 : TOTAL RETAIL SALES

Total Retail Sales for April 1995 (Provisional Figure) - HK$15,887.4 million

for March 1995 (Revised Figure) = HK$16,583.0 million

TABLE 2 = _VALUE AND VOLUME INDICES OF RETAIL SALES FOR HARCH 1995 AND APRIL 1995

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

Index number

Type of Outlet

тура of

Index

March 1995 (Revised

April 1995

April 1995 April compared with compared with March 1995 Aprit

1994

1995

Jan.- Apr.1995

compared with

Jan.- Apr.1994

(Provisional

figures)

figures)

(Points)

(Points)

(Points) (X)

(Points)

(1)

(Points) (%)

(A) FOR ALL RETAIL OUTLETS

Value

176.6

169.2

-7.6

-4.2 +7.3

+4.5

+10.8

+6,3

Voluse

136.6

125.8

-10.8

-7.9) -3.2

-2.5

-0.3 -0.2

(B) BY TYPE OF RETAIL OUTLET

Food, alcoholic drinks

Value

134.5

141.2

+6.7

+5.0 +12.5

+9,7

+6.1 +4.6

and tobacco (other

Volume

97.7

102.3

+4.6

+4.7

-0.1

-0.1

-3.4

-3.4

then supermarkets)

Supermarkets

Vatus

156.5

$53.7

-2.8

-1.8 +11.B

+8.3

Volume

105.6

103.2

-2.4

-2.3 +0.8

+7.2 46.7 +0.8 -3.7 -3.3

Fuels

Vatue

145.4

159.1

Volume

95.1

104.1

+13.7 +9.0

+9.4 +12.2 +9.4 -1.6

+8.3 +11.2 -1.4 -0.3 -0.4

+8.6

Clothing, footwear and

Value

238.7

265.3

+26.7

allied products

Volume

166.0

$69.3

+3.3

+11.2 +30.5 +13.0 +30.7 +12.4 +2.0 +6.0 +2.4 +2.1 +1.2

Consumer durable goods

Valua

154.9

150.5

-4.4

Volume

127.3

123.5

-3.9

-2.8 -19.2 -3.0 -21.1

-11.3 -11.5 -6.3 -14.6 -16.8 -10.8

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Motor vehicles

Value

118.9

105.1

-13.8

and parts

Volume

79.9

69.8

-10.0

-11.6 -41.9 -12.6 -38.8

-28.3 28.5 35.7 +32.6

-15.3

-23.7

Consumer durable

Value

180.9

183.4

+2.5

goods other than

Volume

161.7

162.3

+0.6

+1.4 -2.9 +0.4 -8.3

-1.5 +0.7

+0.4

-4.9

+5.3

-3.1

motor vehicles

and parts

Department stores

Value

145.2

143.8

Volume

104.5

97.7

+1.4 -1.0 +9.0 -6.8 -6.5

+6.7

-1.7

+8.3 +5.4 -1.7 -4.5 -3.7

Jewellery, watches

Value

210.9

149.0

and clocks, and

Volume

199.3

138.2

-61.9 -29.4 -7.1 -61.1 -30.7 -9.9

+16.2

-4.6

+9.4 -6.7. +16.0 +8.5

valuable gifts

Other consumer goods

Value

218.5

208.8

-9.7

not elsewhere

Volume

166.7

158.3

-6.3

-4.4 +29.5 +16.4 +29.2 +16.0 -5.0 +15.2 +10.6 +14.9 +10.1

classified

NOTES: Not including supermarkets operating in department stores.

The underlined figures were rounded up to 5.

End/Monday, June 26, 1995