Sentences with phrase «of food price increases»

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has estimated that 20 to 30 % of the food price increases in the past two years are accounted for by biofuels, and that last year they accounted for about half the increase in demand for principle food crops.

Pet retailers should never underestimate how the traditionally high - margins of service offerings can impact their bottom line — especially in light of the squeeze of food price increases over the past few years — or how having animals in the store can be great theater and a real draw for shoppers.

Not exact matches

These kinds of foods are arguably more eco-friendly than meat but - whatever your thoughts about gluten - free eating - it will change how protein crops are distributed globally and may divert pulses or increase the price of them for countries such as India that depend of non-livestock proteins.

Price gains will vary across foods, with increases in some products more dramatic than others as the type of wheat used varies.

Each year the company raises its menu prices to cover increasing food costs, but it generally keeps those price hikes below the rate of inflation for «food away from home» to stay competitive.

This would increase the supply of foods on the domestic market, placing downward pressure on retail food prices.»

A fair point made by Wendy's management is that the gap between the price of groceries, or food at home, and restaurants, or food away from home, is increasing.

Higher prices paid to farmers, combined with lower imports, may increase grocery and restaurant costs for baked goods and cereals as much as 4 percent next year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Tuesday in its first forecast of food - price inflation for 2018.

Amazon's acquisition of Whole Foods led to a drop in the prices at the food retailer, but an increase in sales.

Dunkin' previously cut its outlook for the year in July, due to increased competition from fast - food rivals and the negative impact of high milk prices on Baskin - Robbins profits.

«It would lead to inflation, price increases and in some cases shortages of food.»

It's likely Ontario's restaurant food inflation will continue to rise, he said, as price - sensitive restaurateurs realize they did not increase prices enough initially or learn they did not account for the costs of other new legislation, including new rules around vacation and holiday pay.

Food is a restaurant's most expensive cost after labour, said Rilett, who anticipates another bump in prices when the minimum wage impact ripples into the price of food as farmers, processors and others also face increased coFood is a restaurant's most expensive cost after labour, said Rilett, who anticipates another bump in prices when the minimum wage impact ripples into the price of food as farmers, processors and others also face increased cofood as farmers, processors and others also face increased costs.

What we didn't anticipate was that other factors, including bad weather and other hiccups in commodities markets, would drive up the price of food in much of the U.S., increasing restaurants» costs at a time when they couldn't easily pass those costs through to budget - conscious diners.

Food prices may have been the biggest distorting factor in the February inflation data, gaining 6 percent year on year and most likely a sign of increases ahead of Lunar New Year festivities.

To protect its place in the grocery market, Kroger has ramped up its lower price organic food, a move that has come in the wake of Walmart aggressively increasing its natural foods selection and re-setting the fresh food areas at hundreds of stores, moves that have boosted comparable sales at a retailer that gets 56 % of sales from its grocery business.

Arnold said this is the last phase of Chipotle's planned price increase and is a response to rising inflation in food and labor costs.

Any shortfall would lead to rising food prices that would hit the world's poor hardest, as has already occurred from price increases of recent years.

As a result of that diversion from export markets, food price increases in those countries lagged well behind the ascent in world prices.

Food prices measured by the Bureau of Labor Statistics rose 0.3 percent in April, bringing this year's gain to the highest since a 3 percent increase in the first four months of 1990.

Earlier this month, San Diego - based Jack in the Box Inc., a fast - food chain with restaurants mainly in the western U.S., raised its prices 1.5 percent, saying it was being cautious about increases because of the competitive environment.

Paul Bulcke, the chief executive officer of Vevey, Switzerland - based Nestle, the world's largest food company, said May 19 that food - price increases should be gradual and that companies would try to absorb commodity expenses by reducing costs in other areas.

These risks and uncertainties include food safety and food - borne illness concerns; litigation; unfavorable publicity; federal, state and local regulation of our business including health care reform, labor and insurance costs; technology failures; failure to execute a business continuity plan following a disaster; health concerns including virus outbreaks; the intensely competitive nature of the restaurant industry; factors impacting our ability to drive sales growth; the impact of indebtedness we incurred in the RARE acquisition; our plans to expand our newer brands like Bahama Breeze and Seasons 52; our ability to successfully integrate Eddie V's restaurant operations; a lack of suitable new restaurant locations; higher - than - anticipated costs to open, close or remodel restaurants; increased advertising and marketing costs; a failure to develop and recruit effective leaders; the price and availability of key food products and utilities; shortages or interruptions in the delivery of food and other products; volatility in the market value of derivatives; general macroeconomic factors, including unemployment and interest rates; disruptions in the financial markets; risk of doing business with franchisees and vendors in foreign markets; failure to protect our service marks or other intellectual property; a possible impairment in the carrying value of our goodwill or other intangible assets; a failure of our internal controls over financial reporting or changes in accounting standards; and other factors and uncertainties discussed from time to time in reports filed by Darden with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Food prices are also expected to increase by 1 % -2 %, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Excluding energy, prices rose 1.0 %, while prices of food, alcohol and tobacco increased 1.7 % and prices of services were 1.1 % higher.

The importance of this is that the Chinese can relieve some of the food price pressure by increasing imports to offset whatever domestic shortfalls are causing the higher food costs.

The food products, beverages, tobacco, and textiles segment increased 10.4 %, which came on the back of a 105.3 % leap in the prices of tobacco products, while beverage prices jumped 55.1 %.

Excluding the volatile fresh food component, consumer prices have been flat over the past year, compared with deflation rates of almost 1 per cent in recent years, although part of this improvement is attributable to increases in administered medical prices and tobacco taxes earlier in 2003.

Consumer price inflation in the euro area increased to 2.1 per cent over the year to October, primarily due to higher food and energy prices; the core measure of inflation is lower at 1.7 per cent (Graph 9).

Increases in food prices, erosion of Qatari fiscal balances and a rise in borrowing costs are real risks Qatar will continue to face if the situation is not settled amicably, according to M.R. Raghu, head of research at Kuwait Financial Center (Markaz) and managing director of Marmore Mena Intelligence.

Furthermore, in many developing countries price regulation in favor of providing cheap food for urban residents has been a devastating disincentive for food producers to increase their production.

The problem has perhaps most directly affected the poor: calorie - rich food is inexpensive, while the price of flesh foods is increasing.

The USDA Economic Research Service found that although unemployment declined in 2012 and 2013, inflation and the price of food continued to increase.

Industry trends affecting Pacific Seafood Group, and food processors in general, include market consolidation, increased price competition, greater consumer health consciousness and increasing popularity of organic and natural foods.

In these days of increasing food prices and consequent «hidden hunger,» exploring Golden Rice's potential is a golden opportunity.

Western United Dairymen (WUD) and the California Dairy Campaign (CDC) have petitioned the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) for an emergency hearing to increase over-base milk prices by about 35 cents / cwt for the next 12 months.

Nestle doesn't expect raw material prices to rise further this year, despite a recent FAO report that forecasts an increase of over 2 per cent in the world food import bill in 2006.

Surrendering to the EU's seizure of common food names would cost the U.S. dairy industry billions of dollars, slash domestic cheese consumption and increase prices for consumers, according to an analysis recently released by Informa Economics IEG.

The Belarusian Agriculture and Food Ministry has increased the minimal recommended export prices for several kinds of dairy products, BelTA has learned.

Metcash attributed the fall in grocery earnings to price deflation of 1.3 per cent, which exacerbated operating deleverage, a 12.6 per cent increase in advertising and marketing investment, and intense competition in food markets, particularly the impact of excessive fuel discounts by the major chains.

The results of the inaugural FoodProductionDaily.com survey gauging the outlook for the food and drink processing industry reveal that commodity and packaging material price increases, the bugbear of the past few months, are proving a challenge for 80...

The United Nations» food agency has singled out burgeoning demand in Asia as contributing to the overall international price increase of dairy products, but remains confident that prices will begin to stabilise in 2005, Tom Armitage...

This family has been the biggest beneficiary of investors» lust for a stock that is exposed to all sorts of risks associated with agriculture including weather, food prices and increasing competition.

The evidence that is available about food production and processing, but not included in the Green Paper, is that the sector's businesses are in the main under considerable financial pressure as a result of falling real commodity prices, rising input costs, increased government regulations, rising labour costs, and lower retail margins.

However, ACCC analysis indicates that these increases in gross margins could have only made a small contribution to overall food price inflation.2 In other words, the vast majority of grocery price increases in Australia are attributable to other factors, such as supply and demand changes in international and domestic markets, increases in the costs of production and domestic weather conditions.

... there is little evidence of any weakening of price competition in grocery retailing and wholesaling has played a significant role in explaining recent increases in food price inflation.

Food price volatility in recent years has seen the numbers of malnourished increase significantly.

The dairy industry association of Lower Saxony (LVN) has drawn a comparison between wage developments and the price development of foodstuffs — with increasing wages, less money is being spent on food.

Nomad Foods, Europe's largest frozen food producer, has reported a 1.5 % increase in revenue to $ 1.957 billion with organic revenue growth of 3.9 %, driven by 2.7 % growth in volume / mix and 1.2 % growth in price, for the twelve months ended December 31, 2017.

However, much of this increase was just in the last year, as consumer prices for oranges rose 23 % between March 2013 and March 2014 — more than any other food product.