Wholesale trade sales up 6% in March

Wholesale trade sales rose 6% year-on-year in March compared with a 7.2% year-on-year rise in February‚ Statistics SA data showed on Thursday, 15 May 2014.

Sales were measured in real terms using constant 2012 prices.

Seasonally adjusted wholesale trade sales decreased 5.2% in March 2014 compared with February 2014. This followed month-on-month changes of -0.4% in February 2014 and 3.4% in January 2014.

Seasonally adjusted wholesale trade sales increased 1% in the first quarter of 2014 compared with the last quarter of 2013.

Measured in nominal terms‚ using current prices‚ wholesale trade sales increased by 14.7% in March 2014 compared with March 2013.

Wholesale trade sales increased by 15.4% in first quarter of 2014 compared with the first quarter of 2013.