Wholesale trade expects sales stability

The High Commissioner for Planning stated that 68 percent of wholesalers expect, during the second chapter of 2025, stability in the total sales volume, while 26 percent of them expect a rise.

The delegate stated in its news note on the results of the quarterly research on the economic circumstance in the non -financial commercial services sector, and the wholesalers sector, that this development is mainly attributed, on the one hand, to the expected rise in the volume of sales of “other varieties of specialized wholesale trade”, and “other industrial equipment trade”, and on the other hand to the expected decrease in the sales of “trade supplies trade in wholesale”.

Regarding the level of the expected demand books during the second semester of the year 2025, it is expected to be normal, according to 77 percent of wholesalers. 84 percent of wholesalers also expect stability in the number of workers.

During the first chapter of the year 2025, sales of the wholesale trade sector in the internal market may be an increase by 28 percent of the contractors of contracting, and stability, according to 61 percent of them.

On the one hand, this development is attributed to the registered rise in sales of “other varieties of specialized wholesale trade”, and sales of “other industrial equipment trade in wholesale”, and on the other hand, to the decline recorded in sales of “Media Equipment Trade and wholesale”.

Regarding the number of workers, it may be stable, according to 79 % of the contractors.

The stock level of commodities was considered normal, according to 84 percent of wholesalers, while the selling prices may have been known, according to 68 percent of the contractors, and a decrease according to 28 percent of them.