Yamazaki bread raises again, other companies follow up

Yamazaki bread (Yamazaki bread), the largest bakery industry, is said to raise prices for all breads due to the surge in global raw material prices.

We have already raised the price in December last year, but we had no choice but to raise the price again.

Details are as below.
Yamazaki Bread Co., Ltd. Notification of Product Price Revision

According to this release, Yamazaki bread will raise the average retail price of bread and some Western confections by 8% on average from the shipment on May 16.

This is due to the fact that the government selling price of wheat has been raised by 30% at a stretch since April 1, and raw material prices such as oils and fats and dairy products are continuing to soar, so we will limit the limit of cost absorption by corporate effort It is because it exceeded. For some bags such as table rolls, we are reducing the content by one without raising the price.