The retail sales rose in 22 of the 33 considered urban areas in the EMEC during December last with relation to the same month of 2004, being these: Villahermosa, San Luis Potosí, Tijuana, Hermosillo, Logwood, New Laredo, Oaxaca, Juárez City, Sight on, Puebla, Chihuahua, Culiacán, Mérida, Mexicali, City of Mexico, Tower, Querétaro, Leon, Morelia, Coatzacoalcos, Matamoros and Veracruz.
However, the sales in Acapulco, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, La Paz, Cancún, Zacatecas, Aguascalientes, Toluca, Cuernavaca, Guadalajara, Saltillo and Monterrey diminished, in the month that is reported.
Commercial sales to the Mayoreo and by Class of Activity - For the set of the urban areas, the wholesale sales presented/displayed a reduction of (-) 3.3 percent in real terms and to annual rate in the twelfth month of 2005.
The activity classes that contributed to this behavior were: stores of clothes and footwear; wood in general; stores of discs, toys and gifts; materials for the construction, and machinery for the industry, the commerce, agriculture and the services with significant falls.
Results during January-December of 2005 - The sales in the retail establishments rose 4,4 percent and in wholesalers 0.8 percent during the twelve months of 2005 with respect to the same period of 2004. The personnel occupied to the retail registered a variation of 0,3 percent and to the mayoreo of (-)0.7 percent in the period at issue.
As for the paid real average remunerations, these were increased 0.1 percent in the establishments to the retail and in the relative ones to the mayoreo percents were reduced (-)2.
Instituto Nacional de Estadística Geografía e Informática
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