As the global economy has shown signs of picking up, Hong Kong’s value of total retail sales in July 2010, provisionally estimated at HK$27.2 billion, up 18.9% over a year earlier, according to the latest figures released by the Census and Statistics Department.As the global economy has shown signs of picking up, Hong Kong’s value of total retail sales in July 2010, provisionally estimated at HK$27.2 billion, up 18.9% over a year earlier, according to the latest figures released by the Census and Statistics Department.

Taking the first seven months of 2010 together, total retail sales increased by 18.0% in value or 14.9% in volume over the same period a year earlier. Footwear and allied products and other clothing accessories (+18.2%); commodities in department stores (+16.2%); wearing apparel (+14.1%); miscellaneous consumer goods (+9.9%); food, alcoholic drinks and tobacco (+7.3%); furniture and fixtures (+7.1%); commodities in supermarkets (+4.7%); and fuels (+4.0%).
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