Press release
According to Head department of statistics in ARK in the first quarter 2008 in the sphere of wholesale trade 1421 enterprises worked, from them 209 were engaged in realization of food. For this period wholesale it was realized foodstuff for the sum of 526,5 million UAH., that on a third more than for the similar period of last year.
The structure of wholesales of the food most popular in the population looks as follows. Among foodstuff tobacco products and alcoholic beverages traditionally dominated. 1 quarter of the current year for tobacco products didn’t become an exception: they won first place, and their specific weight in total amount of commodity turnover of foodstuff made nearly 24 percent. And, as to alcoholic beverages, here krymchane changed the priorities a little and preferred "dolce vita", i.e. chocolate and confectionery. As a result the permanent leader in the wholesale market of the food – alcoholic beverages – appeared on the third place with an indicator of 11,4 %, having conceded the second – to chocolate and confectionery (16,6 %). And in comparison with 1 quarter 2007 the sum obtained from sale of chocolate and confectionery, grew by 73 %, and from alcoholic beverages - was reduced by 8 percent. The fourth place among vital food occupied dairy (8 %), the fifth and the sixth – meat (6,1 %) and fish (4,3 %) products, took place further a flour (1,9 %), sugar (1,6 %), oil sunflower (1,1 %) and grain (0,5 %).
O. Pityurenko, the deputy chief of GU of statistics in ARK.