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Wholesale trade falls for 5th quarter running to levels seen 3 years ago

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Wholesale trade fell for the fifth quarter in a row in the September quarter, the first time sales had fallen five consecutive quarters, figures released by Statistics New Zealand show. Wholesale trade sales were now at levels seen nearly three years ago, Stats NZ said.

Seasonally adjusted wholesale trade fell 0.8% from the June quarter. This was the smallest fall of the last five quarters. The highest was a 5.7% fall in March. The overall fall was driven by an 8.4% fall in primary product food wholesaling and a 6.6% fall in farm, construction machinery, and professional business equipment wholesaling.

Here is the release from Stats NZ:

Seasonally adjusted wholesale trade sales fell for a fifth consecutive quarter, down 0.8 percent ($154 million) in the September 2009 quarter, Statistics New Zealand said today. "This is the first time that wholesale trade sales have fallen for five quarters", said business statistics manager Louise Holmes-Oliver, " and at $20.2 billion, sales are about the same level as seen nearly three years ago".

The overall picture across the 16 wholesale trade industries was mixed, with nine industries falling and seven increasing in the September 2009 quarter. Driving the overall fall were decreases in:

  • primary product food wholesaling, down 8.4 percent ($148 million)
  • farm, construction machinery, and professional business equipment wholesaling, down 6.6 percent ($119 million).

A rise in food and grocery products wholesaling, up 4.1 percent ($172 million), partly offset the overall fall. The trend in wholesale trade sales has been falling for more than a year, down 10.4 percent since the June 2008 quarter. "This far surpasses the previous largest fall in the trend, which was a drop of 1.1 percent over three quarters of 1996", Mrs Holmes-Oliver said. Latest figures suggest the rate of fall has slowed.

Wholesale trade stocks, also adjusted for seasonal effects, fell a record 5.1 percent ($545 million) in the September 2009 quarter. This is the fourth consecutive quarter to record decreased stocks, and continues the longest and fastest period of decline in stocks since the series began in 1995.

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