Overview
- Real sales rose 2.7% versus 2024, while nominal turnover increased 3.8%, leaving the year 0.1% below 2021 in real terms but 17.3% higher nominally.
- Internet and mail-order trade grew 10.1% in real terms, partly reflecting newly recorded German revenues after an August 2024 restructuring at a large operator.
- Momentum eased through the year, with real sales up 3.8% in the first half and 1.7% in the second half.
- Retailers reported a stronger Christmas season, with December real sales up 3.2% year on year and 0.1% higher month on month on a seasonally adjusted basis.
- Destatis emphasized the results are preliminary and subject to revision after a sample redesign, and media report the unnamed company involved is likely Amazon, which the agency did not confirm.