Rio de Janeiro – The volume of retail sales in Brazil grew 0.4% in September this year, as against the previous month. Nominal revenues grew 0.9%. In August, the growth had been 1.9%, both in sales volume and in revenues. The figures are in the Monthly Trade Research, disclosed today (12) by the Brazilian Institute for Geography and Statistics (IBGE).
Despite the positive result for September, only four of the ten activities researched presented growth in sales volume: office, information and communications equipment (5.6%), other articles for personal and domestic use (2.8%), furniture and household appliances (1.1%) and fuel and lubricants (1.0%).
The sectors that presented reductions in the volume of sales were hypermarkets, supermarkets, drinks and tobacco (-0.1%), fabric, garments and shoes (-0.2%), building material (-0.2%), books, newspaper, magazines and stationery (-0.7%), cars, motorcycles and parts (-0.8%) and medical, orthopaedics, perfumery and cosmetic products and pharmaceuticals (-1.2%).
When comparing September this year to September 2009, the growth was 11.8% in sales volume and 15.2% in nominal revenues. In the accumulated result for the year, the growth was respectively 11.4% and 14.4%. In the accumulated result for the last 12 months, the volume of sales grew 10.7% and revenues, 13.7%.
*Translated by Mark Ament
