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UK meals inflation hits five-month excessive, trade information reveals
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UK meals inflation hits five-month excessive, trade information reveals

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By Tycoon Herald 4 Min Read Published March 4, 2025
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The rising value of butter, cheese and eggs has pushed UK meals inflation to a five-month excessive, in keeping with sector information that underscores persistent value of residing pressures.

Annual meals inflation rose to 2.1 per cent in February, up from 1.6 per cent in January, marking the primary time it has gone above 2 per cent since September 2024, in keeping with information from the British Retail Consortium.

Inflation expectations are intently tied to meals costs, in accordance to the Financial institution of England, complicating efforts to convey total inflation again to its 2 per cent goal.

The BoE expects headline inflation to rise from its present fee of three per cent to three.7 per cent by the center of this 12 months, earlier than returning to focus on.

Within the February financial coverage report, the BoE stated the latest will increase in meals value inflation have been doubtless partially to mirror will increase within the nationwide residing wage and an increase in employers’ nationwide insurance coverage contributions, which takes impact in April.

New recycling rules that come into pressure in October are additionally a think about retaining costs excessive, in keeping with the BoE.

“If government wants to keep inflation at bay, enable retailers to focus on growth and help households, it must mitigate the swath of costs facing the industry,” stated Helen Dickinson, chief govt of the BRC.

Dickinson expects meals inflation to surpass 4 per cent by the second half of the 12 months.

“Breakfast, in particular, got more expensive as butter, cheese, eggs, bread and cereals all saw price hikes,” she added. “Climbing global coffee prices could threaten to push the morning costs higher in the coming months,” she added.

The BRC stated recent meals inflation rose to 1.5 per cent in February from 0.9 per cent in January. Ambient meals inflation, which incorporates packaged items, climbed to 2.8 per cent from 2.5 per cent.

Meals costs surged sharply following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, hitting the poorest households the toughest.

In January 2025, UK meals costs have been about 35 per cent larger than in January 2021, in keeping with official information.

The BRC, which produces the figures with the buyer perception firm NielsenIQ, gives early indications of value pressures forward of official inflation information for February printed on March 26.

UK meals inflation hits five-month excessive, trade information reveals

Mike Watkins, head of retailer and enterprise perception at NielsenIQ, stated: “With many household bills increasing over the next few weeks, shoppers will be looking carefully at their discretionary spend.

“The increase in food inflation is likely to encourage even more shoppers to seek out the savings available from supermarket loyalty schemes,” he added.

General grocery inflation was unchanged from the earlier month — at minus 0.7 in February — as non-food costs fell by an annual fee of two.1 per cent.

Dickinson stated that discounting objects was now widespread “as retailers tried to entice customers against a backdrop of weak demand”.

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