Are the big manufacturers trying to increase their margins under the guise of current inflation? This is the thesis of Jacques Creyssel. A guest of BFM Business, the general delegate of the Federation of Trade and Industry thinks that the current increases advocated by manufacturers are not justified.
According to him, agribusiness groups are using this “windfall effect” to influence negotiations. At a time when the discussions with the distributors are about to end, in a very tense context.
Around 10% price increase
“The negotiation will undoubtedly end around 10%,” predicts the leader of the CDF. They had resulted last year in an increase of around 4%, but inflation had forced stakeholders back to the negotiating table. On average, rising food prices rose to 13% last year. This new increase that is coming would therefore be based mainly on the will of the industrialists, not on that of the distribution or that of the farmers, according to the union center. These increases “are not justified.” In BFM Business, Jacques Creyssel evokes the “total irresponsibility” on the part of “some big international industrialists”. Before adding “they don’t care what the French think”.
No “red march”
Should we therefore expect a “red march”? No, according to the general delegate of the CDF, despite a spike in inflation. Manufacturers will be received at Bercy in the coming days, to limit these effects.
Large retailers that oppose the “anti-inflation basket” launched by the government. An initiative led by olivia gregoire, Delegate Minister of Commerce. It must allow the composition of a standard basket, ordered by category of products, with limited prices. This device is based on goodwill. However, traders and farmers do not want it, explains Jacques Creyssel, because they consider that “it is not up to the State to establish official comparators. That’s not [non plus] It is up to the State to decide on the commercial policy of the companies.” The general delegate of the CDF promises, however, that the large distribution will do everything possible “in compliance with the rules to limit these increases, assuming our margins.”
Source: BFM TV
