Stats SA also noted that wholesale trade sales, at constant 2000 prices, for the three months ended January 2010 decreased by -10.7% compared with the three months ended January 2009, while growth for the same period in 2009 was 2.0%.
Seasonally adjusted wholesale trade sales for the three months ended January 2010 increased by 1.0% compared with the three months ended October 2009.
Annual wholesale trade sales for 2009 declined -11%.
According to the data, wholesale trade sales, at current prices, for the three months ended January 2010 decreased by -10.2% compared with the three months ended January 2009.
The major contributors to this decrease were dealers in machinery, equipment and supplies (-20.4% and contributing -3.9 percentage points) and dealers in solid, liquid and gaseous fuels and related products (-19.1% and contributing -3.6 percentage points).
Wholesale trade sales, at current prices, for January 2010 decreased by -8.8% compared with January 2009, while sales for the corresponding period in 2009 increased by 5.3%
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