March 2011 Russian retail turnover grew by 4.8% y-o-y and reached RUB 1.458bn. Food items, drinks and tobacco sales turnover was RUB 713.4bn, which is 1% more than a year ago. Q1 2011 food items retail turnover grew by 1.2% to RUB 2.04bn, non-food items turnover made RUB 2.1bn, 8.3% more than 2010. March 2011 food items retail turnover accounted for 48.9% of the total retail turnover, the share of the non-food items was 51.1%.

Source: www.retail.ru