Press Wholesale turnover in the 3rd quarter 2016: 0.9% in real terms smaller than in the 3rd quarter 2015

Press release No. 425 of 30 November 2016

WIESBADEN – As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the turnover achieved by wholesale trade in Germany in the third quarter 2016 was in real terms 0.9% and in nominal terms 1.8% smaller than that in the third quarter 2015.

In September 2016 turnover in wholesale trade was in real terms 0.5% and in nominal terms 0.6% smaller than in the corresponding month of the previous year.

The turnover in wholesale trade was in the first nine months 2016 in real terms 0.2% and in nominal terms 1.7% smaller than in the comparable period last year.

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