On Wednesday, 26 April 2017 14:48:15 UTC+1, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
whisky-dave wrote:
because the pound had fallen inv alue following the Brexit result. The
imported content of many of their products cost more.


What imported content ?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/fo...ed-there..html

Marmite, which was invented by a German scientist called Justus von
Liebig in the late 19th century, has been produced in Burton since 1902..
The town€˜s beer heritage is important: the basic ingredient of the
spread is yeast sludge, a waste product left over from brewing beer, and
there were once 30 breweries in the surrounding area. Now, the raw
materials come from across the UK.

Are you absolutely certain all the raw materials in a jar of Marmite come
from the UK?

I think that was proved such things as yeast and water.....

And are you including any packaging and transport costs? And
the overheads of the company which make it?

they put the cost up of the marmite already sitting one the pallets in their warehouses in the UK. Now un less they are going to the states to fill up the gas tank then driving the lorry back to the UK I see little excuse foir adding the cost of transport.


If the only thing which influenced the retail price was the cost of the
yeast, it would likely sell for tuppence a jar.

and where did the yeast come from which was in the jars at least a month before the BREXIT vote.


What was the reason they stated ?

see above

Everything was from the UK including the water.

https://www.theguardian.com/business...ce-supermarket

However, after both companies€˜ share prices fell on Thursday and
Unilever was criticised for blaming the attempt to increase prices on
the fall in the value of the pound, a deal was reached late in the
afternoon.

Some are eaily fooled into beliving anything aren't they.

You apparently are.

Makes you wonder why they reversed the price rise then doens't it.