On a calendar adjusted basis, new orders were 5.7 per cent lower than in February 2022. Excluding large-scale orders, there was an increase of 1.2 per cent in February 2023, Destatis said in a press release.
Orders in the intermediate goods area in February 2023 rose only by 1.3 per cent compared with the previous month. New orders in the consumer goods sector increased by 1.9 per cent.
Domestic orders rose by 5.6 per cent on the previous month, foreign orders increased by 4.2 per cent. New orders from the euro area increased by 8.9 per cent, while orders from the rest of the world increased by 1.4 per cent.
After revision of the provisional results, new orders were 0.5 per cent higher in January 2023 than in December 2022 (provisional figure: 1.0 per cent).
Fibre2Fashion News Desk (NB)