Press release No. 149 of 29 April 2016
WIESBADEN – According to provisional results of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), retail turnover in March 2016 in Germany increased in real terms 0.7% and in nominal terms 0.6% compared with the corresponding month of the previous year. The number of days open for sale was 25 in March 2016 and 26 in March 2015.
Compared with the previous year, turnover in retail trade was in the first three months 2016 in real terms 1.5% and in nominal terms 1.6% larger than in in the corresponding period of the previous year.
When adjusted for calendar and seasonal variations (Census-X-12-ARIMA), the March turnover was in real terms 1.1 % and in nominal terms 0.9% smaller than that in February 2016.