Turnover in manufacturing in March 2010 +2.7 seasonal adjusted on February 2010
WIESBADEN – As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) on the basis of provisional data, the manufacturing sector saw turnover rise in real terms adjusted for seasonal fluctuations and working-day variations 2.7% in March 2010 compared with February 2010 (following a revised –0.2% in February 2010). Domestic turnover increased by 4.0%, the business with foreign customers also increased 1.2%. Sales to euro area countries were 0.5% among preceding month’s level, while sales to other countries went up by 2.6%. Compared with the preceding year, real turnover in manufacturing showed a total increase of 8.6% in March 2010 after having been adjusted for working-day variations (after a revised +8.4% in February 2010). Increases were observed in domestic sales (+6.0%), while turnover from business with foreign customers rose by 11.7%. Among foreign transactions, sales to euro area countries increased by 3.4%, while turnover for other foreign countries ascended 19.6%. In the first quarter 2010 the (working-day adjusted) turnover in manufacturing was 7.3% above the level of the same period of the previous year; domestic turnover rose 4.0% and foreign turnover by a total of 11.4%. Long time series on the turnover index are contained in the online database GENESIS-Online.
