Written answers
Tuesday, 3 November 2009
Department of An Taoiseach
Retail Sector
8:00 pm
Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 175: To ask the Taoiseach the number of retailers here; the share of larger retailers of the Irish market; the penetration of large retail multiples here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38007/09]
Pat Carey (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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The information requested by the Deputy is given in the following table. The table was compiled from the results of the Annual Services Inquiry, conducted by the Central Statistics Office.
The table gives the estimated number of enterprises, turnover and number of persons engaged in retail trade, broken down by employment size class. All the data refers to the year 2007, the latest year for which the data are available.
| NACE (Economic sector) | Size class (persons engaged) | Number of Enterprises | Turnover excl. VAT (€000s) | Number of Persons Engaged | Share of Number of Enterprises (%) | Share of Persons Engaged (%) | Share of Total Turnover (%) |
| 52 (Retail) | < 1013,6096,374,36145,47981.123.020.410-191,9503,691,47026,00611.613.211.820-498023,325,43523,9414.812.110.650-2493715,589,42534,6202.217.517.9250+4612,316,86467,5880.334.239.4 Total16,77731,297,554197,634100.0100100* Persons engaged include working proprietors, full- and part-time employees** Number of persons engaged is a headcount during the week ending 7th September 2007> |
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