Vietnam’s retail sales, service revenues increase in 4 months

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Xinhua, Hanoi :
Vietnam’s total goods retail sales and consumer service revenues in the first four months of this year rose 9.8 percent year-on-year to 1,399 trillion Vietnamese dong (over 61.6 billion U.S. dollars), its General Statistics Office announced on Friday.
Specifically, Vietnam’s goods retail sales climbed up 10.8 percent to 1,060 trillion Vietnamese dong (46.7 billion dollars), with sales of food and foodstuffs growing 11.9 percent, garments growing 12.8 percent, home appliances growing 10.8 percent, cultural and educational items growing 9 percent, and means of transport growing 8.2 percent.
Restaurant and accommodation revenues were 172 trillion Vietnamese dong (nearly 7.6 billion dollars), up 9.4 percent year-on-year.
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