• Prior 27
  • 3m/3m sales 40 vs 30 prior
  • Orders 24 vs 4 prior
  • Time of year sales 16 vs -2 prior
  • Stocks vs demand 30 vs 46 prio

A great read for the retail and wholesale sector and follows yesterday’s spiffing retail sales numbers. Black Friday sales was a big driver for retail yesterday and that’s probably a big chunk of that in these numbers.

Still, it;s at the highest since August 1988 so something’s going right.

UK CBI distributive trades 19 12 2014

UK CBI distributive trades 19 12 2014