According to the National Administrative Department of Statistics (Dane), manufacturing activity increased 6.9%while sales presented a variation of 6.5% and employed personnel increased 3.5%.
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Of the 39 industrial activities represented by the survey, a total of 28 registered positive variations in its real production, adding 7.8 percentage points to the total annual variation and 11 subsectors with negative variations subtracted 1.0 percentage points from the total variation.
Tanning and retanning of leather, retanning and dyeing of fur (-27.2%), Manufacture of travel goods, handbags and similar leather articles (-27.6) and Basic industries of precious and non-ferrous metals (- 23.5%), registered the greatest decreases in the seventh month of the year.
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The best performances were presented in Manufacture of motor vehicles and their engines (37.1%), manufacture of parts, pieces (auto parts), Printing activities (29.0%) and Accessories (luxuries) for vehicles (26.3%). ).
So far this year until September 2022, according to the Dane, the real production of the manufacturing industry presented a variation of 13.6%, real sales of 12.8% and employed personnel of 4.8%., while in the last twelve months until September 2022, the real production of industry presented a variation of 13.3%, the real sales of 12.6% and employed personnel 4.8%.
Regarding the result of retail trade, the statistical entity said that in the seventh month of the year real sales had an increase of 7.2% compared to the same month last year, while employed personnel grew 3.6%. Without taking into account the commercialization of fuels, growth is 6.9%.
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In the accumulated of the first seven months of the year compared to the same period of 2021, the sector sold 14.4% more.
For its part, “in the period from January to September 2022, compared to the same period in 2021, the greatest positive contribution to sales occurred in companies dedicated to the Retail Trade of New Motor Vehicles with a variation of 17.0% and fuel for motor vehicles with a variation of 15.3%, contributing a total of 6.2 percentage points”.
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