Rio de Janeiro \u2013 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).<\/p>\n
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%).<\/p>\n
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%).<\/p>\n
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%.<\/p>\n
*Translated by Mark Ament<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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