2 Dec, 2017 @ 10:25
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Retail figures fall in Spain for first time in three years following Catalunya crisis

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SPANISH retail sales fell for the first time in over three years in October, with sales in Catalonia dropping sharply after its independence referendum.

The vote prompted a standoff with the central government, which then took control of the region.


The crisis hurt many of Catalonia’s economic sectors in October, with car sales, job creation and hotel-stays all underperforming the rest of the country.

Almost 3,000 companies have moved their legal headquarters from the region since the vote.


Spanish retail sales fell 0.1% in October from a year earlier, after increasing by a revised 1.6% in September, the National Statistics Institute said.

 

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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