Sale of household appliances | Page12

Home appliance sales fell 1.8% last September, the first decline from year to year since November 2016, when the contraction was 2, 1%, Indec reported yesterday. Sales at current prices reached 6,218.5 million pesos. Of this total, on the panel of 102 companies, 3,729.5 million pesos corresponded to the city of Buenos Aires (16.6%), 6,479.6 million pesos to "24 parties of Greater Buenos Aires" (7 , 6%). per cent) and 11,370.2 million pesos in the "rest of the country" (0.6 per cent). Sales of articles by groups of items were clbadified under the heading "Air-conditioning and air conditioning equipment", with 1,212.7 million pesos (+ 73.6%); "Gas and electric cookers, microwave and electric ovens, heaters, water heaters and hot water tanks", with 2,668.1 million pesos (+ 28.1%); and "Washer, dryer and dishwasher", among others.