Lithuania Retail Sales Growth Improves April

(RTTNews) - Lithuania's retail sales growth quickened in April, after easing in the previous month, figures from the Department of Statistics showed Friday.

Retail sales, excluding VAT, climbed a working-day-adjusted 6.3 percent year-over-year in April,faster than the 5.0 percent gain in March. In February, sales had risen notably by 8.5 percent.

Excluding automotive fuel, retail sales advanced 4.5 percent in April from a year ago.

Sales of food, beverages and tobacco products grew 3.4 percent in April and and those of non-food products rose by 5.7 percent. Retail sales of automotive fuel alone surged by 13.2 percent.

On a monthly basis, retail sales increased a seasonally and working-day-adjusted 1.2 percent in April