German Federal Statistical Office: Winners and losers in the first quarter of 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic in the first quarter of the year not only caused losers: in general, sales were 2.4% below the previous quarter. While it hit the travel agencies business sector particularly hard with -22.9%, the security sector (+ 1.5%) and the area of architecture and engineering firms (+ 3.5%), for example, recorded sales increases.
Overall, an increase in employment in selected service areas compared to the first quarter of 2019 was also recorded.