KSH: food industry sales prices increased by 6.2 percent

By: Trademagazin Date: 2025. 04. 29. 12:02

In March 2025, industrial producer prices were 7.3 percent higher on average than a year earlier. Domestic sales prices were 4.7 percent higher and export sales prices were 8.6 percent higher than in March of the previous year. The price increase was primarily caused by the annual weakening of the forint against the euro and the increase in production costs, the Central Statistical Office (KSH) reported on Tuesday.

Compared to the previous month, domestic sales prices were 1.0 percent lower and export sales prices were 0.6 percent lower, so industrial producer prices were 0.7 percent lower overall.

Compared to March last year, domestic sales prices in the manufacturing industry, which accounts for 62.7 percent, increased by an average of 4.3 percent, in the energy industry (electricity, gas, steam, air conditioning) with a weight of 35.4 percent, by 5.0 percent, and in the food industry, sales prices increased by 6.2 percent.

Among the groups of sectors by purpose, prices in the domestic energy and secondary consumption sectors increased by a combined 4.3 percent, and in the capital goods and consumer goods sectors by 5.4 percent.