Green coffee increasingly expensive - consumers facing higher prices

08-Feb-2022 - The favorite drink in this country is coffee. Consumption is rising, also thanks to ever new creations. The global market is ensuring that the hot passion could become more expensive. Amid record high inflation, consumers in Germany will probably have to dig deeper into their pockets once again ...

Grocery prices are soaring, but for how long?

More than half of US consumers are placing a higher priority on groceries above all other product categories

18-May-2020 - Panic buying has increased significantly in the US which, by default, has increased demand substantially during COVID-19. Research from Mintel’s Global COVID-19 Consumer Tracker indicates that more than half of US consumers are placing a higher priority on groceries above all other product ...

Arla Foods amba confirms March milk price

25-Feb-2020 - Arla Foods amba’s on account price for conventional milk will increase by 1 eurocent for March 2020. When applied to the UK manufacturing price it will increase by 0.90 pence per litre to 30.94ppl. The Arla on-account price for UK organic milk will decrease by 1 eurocent for March 2020 which when ...

Scarce vanilla harvest

05-Aug-2019 - The important ice-cream ingredient vanilla is showing a lower harvest and thus persistently high prices. "We expect the harvest to be 20 to 25 percent lower than last year," said Georges Geeraerts, head of Madagascar's vanilla export association, in an initial assessment of yields in the world's ...

Misleading Canada Food Prices 2019 Report Makes Assumptions of Red Meat Industry Pricing

11-Dec-2018 - The Canada Food Price Report for 2019, released earlier this week, makes assumptions that the cost of meat is set to fall because Canadians are adopting plant-based diets. In fact, the beef demand index is strong, only showing a decrease of 2% demand in 2018, but maintaining levels not seen since ...

INKOTA welcomes minimum price increase by Fairtrade

Chocolate companies have to follow suit now

04-Dec-2018 - Today, the Fairtrade seal initiative announced a significant increase in the guaranteed minimum price for cocoa. The development organisation INKOTA welcomes this important step to reduce the poverty of cocoa farmers. If chocolate companies were serious about sustainability, they would also have ...

Turkey pledges to curb soaring potato, onion prices ahead of polls

25-Jun-2018 - The soaring prices of onions and potatoes have added a new wrinkle to this weekend's presidential and parliamentary elections in Turkey. In Istanbul, the price of a kilogram of onions increased by more than 210 per cent in the past month and potatoes by 94 per cent, according to private ...

Egg prices blowing up because of avian flu

16-Jul-2015 - Eggs are getting much more expensive - by the dozen and otherwise. The outbreak of avian flu caused the cost of eggs to nearly double last month for producers. Wholesale prices for chicken eggs jumped 84.5 percent in June, the Labor Department said Wednesday. The spike comes amid otherwise tame ...