Increase Registered in All Fields of Retail Sales Last Year

Ljubljana, 26 February - Some 11.5 percent of nominal increase was registered in 2002 on a year-to-year basis in the fields of retail sales, sales of fuel and maintainance of motor vehicles. Real increase reached some 4.7 percent. Retail sale alone totalled a 13.3-percent nominal increase (5.2 increase in real terms), while sales of motor vehicles, fuel and requirements for their maintenance nominally increased by 8.9 percent (2.6 percent in real terms).