This data shows the retail, wholesale and manufacturing sales in New Zealand each quarter.
Retail trade sales | Wholesale trade sales | Manufacturing operating income | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Date | ($m) | (q/q% s.a.) | (y/y%) | ($m) | (q/q% s.a.) | (y/y%) | ($m) | (q/q% s.a.) | (y/y%) |
Previous years: | |||||||||
Mar 2020 | 24,794 | -0.7 | 3.4 | 26,521 | 0.5 | 1.9 | 29,081 | -1.0 | 2.6 |
Mar 2021 | 26,321 | 2.3 | 6.2 | 28,146 | 3.8 | 6.1 | 29,061 | 2.2 | -0.1 |
Quarterly: | |||||||||
Jun 2021 | 27,482 | 4.3 | 37.1 | 30,996 | 3.6 | 24.2 | 30,635 | 3.6 | 19.5 |
Sep 2021 | 25,107 | -6.8 | -1.7 | 32,032 | 2.1 | 7.5 | 27,700 | -2.2 | 3.8 |
Dec 2021 | 31,002 | 10.1 | 8.8 | 35,976 | 6.9 | 17.3 | 35,246 | 11.9 | 15.6 |
Mar 2022 | 28,434 | 0.5 | 8.0 | 32,754 | 2.8 | 16.4 | 33,325 | 1.2 | 14.7 |
Retail trade statistics measure the sales of a wide range of businesses that provide household and personal goods and services.
Wholesale trade statistics measure the sale or resale of new or used goods to retailers, including businesses or institutional users (include government).
Manufacturing statistics measures the sales of manufactured goods. In New Zealand, many manufacturers are engaged in primary produce manufacturing such as meat, dairy and other food processing.
Quarterly
We publish retail trade statistics around seven weeks after the end of the reference quarter.
We publish wholesale trade and manufacturing statistics around 11 weeks after the end of the reference quarter.
The statistics release calendar provides a long-term plan of scheduled releases. We update and release the calendar on the first working day of the month.
View the statistics release calendar
We have reproduced the data with the permission of Statistics New Zealand.
We generally publish revisions when we update and release a table. New or revised data is in bold font.
We sourced data from Statistics New Zealand.
The value sales (excluding GST) in the retail trade sector.
The value of stocks held in the retail trade sector
The value of sales (excluding GST) in the wholesale trade sector.
The value of stocks held in the wholesale trade sector. It is the closing stocks of raw materials for use in production, plus the closing stocks of finished goods, work in progress, and trading stocks.
The value of sales (excluding GST) and other operating income in the manufacturing sector.
The value of stocks held in the manufacturing sector. It includes the closing stocks of raw materials for use in production and closing stocks of finished goods, work in progress and trading stocks.
Symbol or convention | Definition |
---|---|
0 | Zero or value rounded to zero |
- | Not applicable |
.. | Not available |
bold | Revised/new |
italics | Provisional |
Light grey background | Historical |
View other related Economic Indicators tables.