German retail sales rise less than expected in December
By Frank Prenesti
Date: Monday 02 Feb 2026
(Sharecast News) - German retail sales rose slightly less than expected in December, increasing by 0.1% compared with the previous month, preliminary data showed on Monday.
Economists had predicted a month-on-month increase of 0.2%.
For 2025 as a whole, retail sales increased by 2.7% year on year adjusted for inflation, according to final figures released by the Federal Statistics Office, a rise of 0.3 percentage points from the estimate published on January 7.
"After a significant increase in real retail sales in the first half of 2025 compared to the same period of the previous year (+3.8%), growth slowed in the second half of 2025 (+1.7%)," it added.
"The increase in the first half of 2025 can be attributed, among other things, to a one-off effect from the restructuring of a large online and mail-order company in August 2024, which resulted in previously unrecorded sales in Germany."
Reporting by Frank Prenesti for Sharecast.com
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