On-trade

February bar sales volumes up 6.9%

Bar sales volumes rose 6.9% in February compared to February 2014 according to seasonally adjusted provisional estimates from the CSO.

Bar sales values were also up 7.8% in this time.

Compared to January 2016, bar sales volumes showed a decrease of 2.8% (one of the largest monthly decreases of any sector) while values were down 2.1%.

The seasonally adjusted figures compare to an overall retail sales volume increase of 7.1% for February when compared to the same month in 2015 (when motor trade figures are excluded) and 0.2% for February over January.

However the unadjusted figures indicate that bar sales volumes fell 4.1% in February compared to the previous month, January, while values fell by just under 4%.

Final seasonally adjusted figures for January indicate that bar sales volumes were up 10.9% with values up 11.3% compared to January 2015.

January bar sales volumes were also up 2.7% on December 2015 while values rose 3.0%.

However the unadjusted figures indicate that sales volumes fell 28.3% in January compared to December with values too down 28.2%.

Over the three-month period December to February, adjusted sales volumes were up 7.2% when compared to the same three-month period last year while values showed growth of 7.8%.

Compared to the preceding three-month September to November period, adjusted sales volumes were up by 0.7% while values were up by 0.9%.

 

 


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