insight – Page 77
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Analysis & FeaturesWhy mustard prices are hotting up
Mustard prices are hotting up, as growers increasingly turn away from planting mustard seed in favour of other crops…
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Comment & Opinion
Learning from the mults can help indies stay independent
I found the article in The Grocer (‘Fair of fascia’, 18 August) very interesting as it described the requirement for convenience stores…
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Analysis & FeaturesOlive oil hikes set to boost sales of rapeseed oil
As olive oil prices soar, British-grown rapeseed oil is well-placed to emerge as an…
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Analysis & FeaturesSupermarket offers keep lunchbox prices in check
Parents who breathed a sigh of relief when the kids went back to school this month might be having second thoughts…
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Comment & Opinion
GSCOP will cut juggling for retailers and brands
Sir: Will Carter articulates well the juggling brand manufacturers must do to succeed (‘Will inflation be the death of brands?’)…
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Analysis & FeaturesThe categories most at risk from soaring grain prices
As suppliers globally are hit by rocketing commodity inflation, which sectors are being hardest hit and will retail hikes result?
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Comment & Opinion
It's dangerous to assume prices always rise with bad weather
Is price inflation back? That is the $64bn question taxing retail and supply executives in the UK (and beyond) right now.
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Comment & Opinion
Will inflation be the death of brands?
The food business I’ve just joined is busy putting through its third significant price increase of the year.
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Analysis & FeaturesOlive oil retail prices to soar after drought
After 18 months at rock bottom, olive oil wholesale prices are soaring and suppliers are warning of inevitable price hikes in-store.
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Analysis & FeaturesTighter supplies of tea set to loosen in 2013
Tea prices hit the headlines at the start of last month as poor weather in key producing…
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Comment & Opinion
Supermarket prices: too complicated by half
The cost of food is one of the top worries for consumers, alongside energy and fuel…
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Analysis & FeaturesInflation kept in check by price-cutting Morrisons
At first glance, the topline inflation figures of the GPI suggest nothing much…
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Analysis & FeaturesRise in glucose prices to have a big impact
Droughts in the US and Russia have already had a devastating effect on grains prices…
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Analysis & FeaturesEnergy drinks market drained of power
The price of energy drinks has plummeted in the past 12 months as more and more cheap products have flooded the market…
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Analysis & FeaturesCan 'simple' vouchers save Morrisons' year?
Morrisons has high hopes for its simple, inexpensive new voucher scheme system…
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Analysis & FeaturesTomato prices bounce back after E.coli crisis
After last year’s deadly E.coli outbreak in Germany, demand for salad vegetables across the EU tumbled…
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Comment & Opinion
Duty should depend on units
Minimum pricing on alcohol now looks like a done deal, and I suspect we must make the best of it and…
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Analysis & FeaturesWheat price worries haven't hit the supermarkets... yet
All the warning signs are there. Wheat prices in London and Paris have leapt by a third in just a month…
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Analysis & FeaturesWheat prices soar to leave bakers fearing rerun of 2010
Bread makers are bracing themselves for a possible repeat of 2010, when failed harvests and export bans sent grains prices soaring…
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Analysis & FeaturesPrice promos slash inflation at big four to a mere 1.6%
The BRC said food price inflation had crashed to a two-year low of 3.1%. Well, it’s even better than that.