Food industry sales prices rose by 6.1 percent
In February 2025, industrial producer prices exceeded those of the previous year by an average of 8.2 percent. Domestic sales prices exceeded the values of February of the previous year by 5.4 percent, and export sales by 9.6 percent, the Central Statistical Office (KSH) announced on Monday.
The price increase was primarily caused by the annual weakening of the forint exchange rate against the euro and the increase in production costs. Compared to the previous month, domestic sales prices did not change, export sales prices by 0.6, so industrial producer prices decreased by 0.4 percent overall.
Within domestic sales prices in February, the manufacturing industry, which represented a weight of 62.7 percent, increased by 5.0 percent, and the energy industry (electricity, gas, steam supply, air conditioning) by 5.8 percent, with a weight of 35.4 percent. The sales prices of the food industry increased by 6.1 percent.
Among the groups of sectors by purpose, prices in the domestic energy and secondary consumption sectors increased by a combined 5.5 percent, in the capital goods sector by 5.2 percent, and in the consumer goods sector by 5.2 percent.
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