Canada : Men's & women's clothing, footwear and accessories sales up in Q3 2006

Statistics Canada releases quarterly retail commodity survey of third quarter 2006. Clothing, footwear and accessories had their strongest year-over-year growth in the third quarter of 2006 since the beginning of the series in 1998, with an 8.7% increase resulting in total sales of $8.1 billion. The best performance in this category was by footwear, which grew by 10.5%.

Source: www.fibre2fashion.com

Date: 11 Jan, 2007