Food and beverage service providers' sales for the eight months went up by 10.9% to 493.536 mln euros.
Year-on-year, food product, alcohol and tobacco retailers increased their sales by 3.2% to 3.044 bln euros, and non-food retailers, excluding the auto-related sector, by 6.3% to 2.675 bln euros. Automotive fuel retailers registered a 12.1% rise in sales to 1.675 bln euros.
Motor vehicle and motorcycle wholesalers and retailers and repair service providers posted 2.488 bln euros in combined sales for the period, the statistics office said.
