Retail trade turnover, up 6.5 percent during first 6 months (raw series)

The turnover from retail trade (except for trade with motor vehicles and motorcycles) went up, during the first 6 months of this year, as raw series, by 6.5 percent, due to increasing sales of non-food products (+7.4 percent), to sales of food products, beverages and tobacco (+7 percent) and the retail trade of automotive fuel in specialised stores (+4.4 percent).