OREANDA-NEWS. February 02, 2010. As it was informed in the National Bureau of Statistics, the reduction in the retail turnover was due to the lower sales of non-foodstuffs by 9,6% - up to 12.88 billion leis (US1.03 billion), which accounted for 64.7% of the total retail sales in January-December 2009.

At the same time, the country has registered the increase in the retail sales of the foodstuffs by 5,1% - up to 7.03 billion leis (US 562 million), which accounted for 35,3% of the total retail trade.

Last year, retail sales’ volume in mixed (public and private) trading enterprises has declined by 9%, in state companies- by 8,7%, in private – by 5,6% and at the enterprises of mixed ownership (with participation of foreign capital) and companies of foreign ownership-by 0,8%. The largest share in total cost of retail sales in 2009 accounted for Chisinau and Balti.