date:Jul 31, 2014
Dia, the Spanish-based discount retailer, has announced mixed results for the second quarter of this year.
Gross sales fell by 2.7 per cent from the same quarter in 2013 to around 2.3 billion. Dia said that a large portion of this decline can be attributed to the depreciation of the Argentinean peso and the Brazilian real.
In Spain and Portugal, which account for around two thirds of sales, gross sales for the quarter decreased by 2.9 per cent to 1.52 billion. The company said that this can be