Management Board Report on the activity of the JSW S.A. for 2012

3.2.5. Inventories

  31 Dec 2012 31 Dec 2011 Growth rate
Materials 38.5 39.7 97.0%
Finished products 429 257.4 166.7%
Merchandise 8.1 - -
Total 475.6 297.1 160.1%

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The balance of inventories held by the Company as at 31 December 2011 was PLN 475.6 million, up by PLN 178.5 million, i.e. 60.1%, from the level as at 31 December 2011. The increase of the value of inventories was caused primarily by an increase of inventories of finished products by PLN 171.6 million, mainly as a result of lower demand for coal due to the economic slowdown. In 2012, the Company had inventories of merchandise in connection with the change of JSW S.A.’s Trading Policy and the taking over of the sale of coke.