The number of toy stores in the Netherlands drops the last couple of years hard. Since the peak year 2008, is a fifth of the cases disappeared.
That it appears from the figures of the CBS. The sales in the industry decreases in recent years also hard. Since 2008, with about 35 per cent.
Less children, more online
According to CBS’s chief economist Peter Hein van Mulligen, this can be a number of reasons. In the first place broke in 2008, the economic crisis, but also the number of children between the ages of 6 and 12 is with about 6 per cent.
But it is also very likely that there are especially a lot of revenue is lost to online shops. In the same period saw mail-order companies and online stores their revenue correctly will nearly double.
More stores in the province of Overijssel
what is Remarkable is that the toy stores don’t seem to take advantage of the economic upturn, which is already a few years ago was set in motion. In virtually all industries, the number of companies namely, since a number of years.
The number of toy stores continues to understand to fall. In the Netherlands there are now 1100. The majority of cases have gone in recent years in the province of Utrecht. There are now 70. In the province of Overijssel have you as speelgoedliefhebber nothing to complain about: completely against the trend and increased the number of stores from 85 to 90 pieces.
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