Azerbaijan, Baku / Trend / Food products worth AZN 3.5bln and non-food products worth 1.9bln AZN have been sold via the trading network of Azerbaijan between January and September 2007, with an increase of 12.8% and 19.5% respectively.
From the beginning of 2007, commercial services rendered to the population of Azerbaijan made up AZN 1.6bln or were up by 33.1%. Of all those services, 75.4% were provided by legal persons, 24.6% by physical persons, with an increase of 34.7% and 28.4% respectively, according to the State Statistics Committee.
The total volume of return on retail goods was AZN 5.4bln with an increase of 14.9%. Of the return, 16.2% was carried out by legal persons, 47.8% by physical persons during fairs organized in the country and only 36% was sold through private entrepreneurs.