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In the last nine months of the 2015 fiscal year, ETBC distributed 2,877,560 quintals of products and services worth 9,046,004,247 Birr in domestic and foreign markets and achieved 90 percent of the plan in terms of quantity and 79 percent in terms of value. The corporation's sales volume is 40 percent higher than the same period of the 2014 fiscal year. 99.14% of the total sales revenue is from domestic sales and the remaining 0.86% is from exports.

The corporation distributed 2,877,560 quintals of goods and services valued at 9,046,004,247 Birr in the last nine months of the fiscal year 2015, meeting 79 percent of the plan's value and 90 percent of the plan's quantity goals. Sales volume for the corporation is up 40% from the same period in the previous fiscal year. Domestic sales account for 99.14% of overall sales revenue, with exports accounting for the remaining 0.86%.

The corporation distributed 2,832,037 quintals of products and services worth 8,713,617,305 Birr to the domestic market and achieved 92% of the plan in terms of quantity and 81% in terms of value. Domestic consumer products accounted for: 69.1% of grain and coffee, 14.7% of cooking oil, 6.7% of consumer goods, 5.27% of construction materials, 4.1% of fruits and vegetables, and 0.1% of sales of procurement services.

Regarding foreign sales, in nine months, 6,577 quintals of various grains, pulses, oilseeds, coffee and fruits were sold, earning 1,484,488 US dollars.

The corporation offered the public products through domestic marketing in the first nine months of the fiscal year at a discount from the free market price in addition to its efforts to prevent supply shortages by selling the goods it purchased from manufacturers directly to consumers at reasonable prices. It is estimated that if the corporation sold the product worth 7.57 per lion to the public at the current market price, it would have cost 12.24 billion. As a result, it has been observed that the total product sold by the corporation in the last nine months has decreased by 4.67 billion from the market price.