Alastair Eperon, chairman of the confederation's Distributive Trades Survey panel, said a decline in tourist numbers following the Sept . 11 terrorist attacks in the United States and an unusually warm October may have hurt sales.
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Meantime, the Confederation of British Industry's latest distributive trades survey for January said sales in shops, stores and supermarkets rose at the same rate as in December and were above average for the second month in a row.
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The Confederation of British Industry, in its latest distributive trades survey, said a positive balance of 32 percent of retailers reported higher sales in April, up from a balance of 27 percent in March and below retailers'original expectations of a 42 percent balance.
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Elsewhere, the Confederation of British Industry, in its latest quarterly distributive trades survey, said U . K . manufacturers expect to increase output at the highest rate for almost eight years, while business optimism advanced for the first time in more than a year.
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Yesterday, the Confederation of British Industry released its quarterly distributive trades survey, in which it said that retailers expecting an increase in sales in March from a year earlier had outstripped those expecting a decline by 45 percentage points, up from 34 points in February.
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"' London College of Communication "'( LCC ) ( formerly the "'London School of Printing and Graphic Arts "'and then "'London College of Printing "'and, briefly, "'London College of Printing and Distributive Trades "') is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London, located in Elephant and Castle.
