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Structural change in retailing and wholesaling intensifies

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  • Uwe Christian Täger

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The distributive trade in Germany suffered a noticeable decline in sales and employees in 2002. Due to the unfavourable business environment, both a noticeable consumer reserve and a noticeable demand weakening in wholesaling occurred in 2002. Whereas the nominal sales decline in retailing was 2.1% (real: -2.5%), the nominal drop in wholesaling was 3.4% (real: -2.7%). These regressive volumes of turnover can be put down, in retailing, to regressive demand and to weak domestic demand and in wholesaling to the declining demand for industrial raw materials and in particular the import drops, which particularly affected the larger wholesaling and trading enterprises. The economic trends in German distribution are increasingly overlaid, however, by structural changes that result from a changed purchase behaviour of specific consumer groups and from the increasing globalisation of wholesale distribution.

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  • Uwe Christian Täger, 2003. "Structural change in retailing and wholesaling intensifies," ifo Schnelldienst, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, vol. 56(11), pages 10-21, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:ces:ifosdt:v:56:y:2003:i:11:p:10-21
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    1. Arno Städtler, 2003. "Slight sales growth in wholesaling – investment spending continues to decline," ifo Schnelldienst, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, vol. 56(15), pages 22-24, August.
    2. Manuel Birnbrich, 2004. "Retailing: Hopes for an upswing disappointed – investment activity continues to shrink," ifo Schnelldienst, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, vol. 57(14), pages 24-27, July.
    3. Hans-Günther Vieweg & Thomas Fuchs & Reinhard Hild & Andreas Kuhlmann & Stefan Lachenmaier & Michael Reinhard & Uwe Christian Täger & Sebastian de Ramon & Jan-Egbert Sturm, 2005. "Status and outlook of the “New Economy” in selected EU member states from a German Viewpoint," ifo Beiträge zur Wirtschaftsforschung, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, number 19.
    4. Manuel Birnbrich, 2004. "Großhandel: Trotz Umsatzwachstum weiterhin zurückhaltende Investitionsplanungen," ifo Schnelldienst, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, vol. 57(15), pages 30-33, August.

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