Retail sales in Poland up by 6.4% y/y in August

Retail sales in Poland in August increased by 6.4 percent. y / y, after an increase of 4.3 percent. y / y in July, Eurostat reported. On a monthly basis, sales increased by 1.8 percent.

The annual data has been adjusted for the number of working days, and the monthly data are also seasonally adjusted.

Eurostat data also includes the smallest companies with fewer than 10 employees, in this case small family stores, but does not include car sales.

At the same time, euro area seasonally adjusted retail sales increased by 4.4 percent m/m. Across the European Union (EU27), retail sales increased by 3.8 percent m/m.

Eurostat reported that in August retail sales increased by 3.7 percent in the euro area and by 3.5 percent in the EU as a whole.

(PAP, wyborcza.biz)