Wholesale trade sales decrease by 0.3% in October

Wholesale trade sales decreased by 0.3% year on year in October, figures released on Thursday by Statistics SA showed.

Month on month, seasonally adjusted wholesale trade sales decreased by 1.1% in October. This followed month-on-month changes of 2.4% in September and -1.5% in August.

In the three months ended October, seasonally adjusted wholesale trade sales decreased by 0.5% compared with the previous three months.