Drastic price increase at beers

By: trademagazin Date: 2008. 02. 01. 00:00

According to Imre Sivo, president of Hungarian Beer Manufacturers, the companies can't swallow the high raw-material costs.

Last year the malt price growth with
40-86%, the hop became 25-40% most expensive so the manufacturers had
to increase their price with 5-15%. What about this year's beer's
price? According the EU this year big part of the German malt and hop
fields must to be under recreation, so the price can be 400% higher
and last months the energy prices and the packiging costs growth too.

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