Retail sales up 5% in April, buoyed by motor vehicles

Singapore

RETAIL sales for April expanded 5 per cent year on year, buoyed by double-digit sales growth of motor vehicles, with the total retail sales value for April reaching S$3.3 billion.

This is up from S$3.1 billion a year ago.

Stripping out sales of vehicles - which increased 56.4 per cent - sales for the month were down marginally by 0.7 per cent, according to figures released by the Department of Statistics (DOS) on Monday.

Other categories which posted higher year-on-year sales included telecommunications apparatus & computers (3.8 per cent), departme…