The prices of flour, the central ingredient of the entire bakery industry, have risen between 15% and 20%, according to neighborhood bakeries, industrialists and mill owners, and this would impact in the short term and inevitably on consumer prices final.
According to Álvaro Pena, president of the Centro de Industriales Panaderos del Uruguay, quoted by M24, an increase of US $ 2 was found for each 25-kilo bag of flour, and depending on the type of flour and its quality, each bag now counts this US $ 15 and US $ 20. “We are not magicians,” said Pena.
Unavoidable increase
Although the bakeries had asked the industrial mills to maintain the price of flour for the entire month of December, the request fell on infertile ground and the values soared and the bags sold since this week already include the increase, according to publications by the newspaper The country. The secretary of the Gremial de Molinos, of the Mercantile Chamber of Products of the Country, relates the increase to a rise in the international price of wheat.
The Bakers Center agreed to increase the prices of all baked goods by 7%, such as breads, cookies, flour tortillas and others. “We are trying to be as cautious as possible and try to move (prices) as little as possible,” Pena had pointed out.
“The industry is hit in a different way (the increase), obviously it hits a little more but we have other factors such as the industry, such as artisans who are more important than the price of flour,” added the aforementioned bakers’ reference. for Underlined.
