Vedomosti: retailers reported an increase in selling prices for bread in March

At the moment, notifications from bread and bakery manufacturers are under consideration from retailers. According to Igor Karavaev, Chairman of the Presidium of the Association of Retail Companies, since the beginning of 2025, the average markup for available types of wheat bread in large retail chains has already reached 5-7%. It is noted that producers of bread and bakery products explain the increase in selling prices due to the increase in the cost of loans, raw materials, warehouse and transport logistics and other costs. If price changes occur, they will be implemented gradually. This is possible due to the curbing of markups on socially important bread varieties and joint promotions between networks and producers. In addition, the President of the Russian Union of bakers Dmitry Semenov pointed to the shortage of personnel in the industry, which reaches 40% of the staff number of individual enterprises. According to him, manufacturers have to raise salaries to keep them. “Producers need support. And not only subsidies for the purchase of equipment, but perhaps a preferential tax regime, cheap loans, concluded Semenov. In January, Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation Maxim Titov said that the increase in bread prices will roughly correspond to the overall dynamics of inflation. The cost of bread production is constantly increasing. And the price of grain in the total amount is not the main component. Earlier, Rosstat reported that in the period from 21 to 27 January, inflation increased by 0.22%. At the same time, the price of wheat and rye bread increased by 0.3%.

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