Wholesale trade sales up 1% y/y in September 2015

Wholesale trade sales, when measured in real terms (constant 2012 prices), decreased by 1% year on year in September 2015, data from Statistics SA showed on Thursday.

Seasonally adjusted wholesale trade sales increased by 1.7% in September 2015 compared with August 2015. This followed a month-on-month decrease of 0.7% in August 2015 and a month-on-month increase of 1.1% in July 2015.

Seasonally adjusted wholesale trade sales increased by 2% in the third quarter of 2015 compared with the previous quarter.

Measured in nominal terms (current prices), wholesale trade sales increased by 0.7% in September 2015 compared with September 2014.

Wholesale trade sales increased by 2.4% in the third quarter of 2015 compared with the third quarter of 2014.