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Will raise prices of goods in the future, even greater than the P & G, even greater than the daily chemical products
International Herald Tribune reporter Wang Xiaojie from Beijing-based global giant Procter & Gamble Japan will raise prices in the North American market, the news set off in a storm of Chinese consumers. July 7, P & G announced that its products from the overall price increase in September, the company's textiles, household cleaning products, hair care products, shaving supplies, sanitation supplies, prices will increase 2-16% range. Many Chinese consumers are worried that China will raise prices of P & G product?
This, P & G Greater China Head of External Affairs, on Qun Xiang, media confirmed that the program only for the North American market price increases, but he said the international crude oil prices, rising supplier costs of the enormous pressure China will not rule out the possibility of price increases.
Fact, including Procter & Gamble products, including many Japanese are quietly rising prices, P & G because of its numerous high-profile attention it attracted. The public really care about is: when inflation known everything about genome? Price increases will be the next Who? P & G's price increases have already secretly
In fact, P & G products in China has been secretly prices. Earlier this year, compared with the current installation of Ariel washing powder 1.2 kg dollar rose to 15.1 yuan from 14.6, 400 ml packs Pantene shampoo from 30.07 yuan rose to 31.9 yuan. According to public information display, in the past 18 months, Procter & Gamble (China), part of the product price has been raised by 4% to 8%. Some supermarkets have been notified, from the middle of this month, P & G's part of the paper products, household cleaning products, and shaving supplies are also expected to price increases.
And daily chemical products, price increases not P & G one, established white middle and low brand "color odd" This year has been successively increase of 3 times. 1 month, Liby has established for its best-selling series of washing powder price increase of 10% white; according to Japan-based distributor of South China, said Diaopai detergent is also 10% price increases are brewing. Also, some household products to reduce packaging and quantity are to achieve a disguised price increase.
Day of the Chinese market, foreign giants Unilever, another price increase will not be the same? Unilever's external affairs director of Tin Man has implicitly said that enterprises will respond according to the actual market situation, but did not like P & G announced to the world; the current soaring oil prices, freight, electricity, labor and other costs of general price increases, provided Price inevitable.
Test on commodity cost pressures "Oil prices, freight, labor costs are rising, how will Japan do not raise prices of products?" Researcher at the Chinese Ministry of Commerce told Jin Bosong, "International Herald Tribune."
But on terms of trade, energy and raw materials prices is the main source of pressure. Because oil is the fuel, it is necessary and important raw materials. In international oil prices, and our dependence on foreign oil by nearly 50% of cases, the date, the pressure is evident. According to China Customs released July 10 showed the first half of this year, China's imports of crude oil reached 21.01 million tons, imports increased by 16.4% over last year, import value was 106.4% higher than the same period.
Business information service provider, according to Wind Info statistics, domestic listed companies in eight days of sales since 2006, gross margins continued to decline, the year before, the first quarter of last year and this year the average sales gross profit was 24.61%, 24.03%, 21.58%. According to public information display, at the headquarters of Charoen Lotus Lotus recent meeting held in procurement, supplier of cosmetic products generally, to consider raising prices in the second half.
Can see, the exhaustion of the cost of various compression methods, the prices have become a daily chemical industry, a move out of chess.
For P & G's price increases, many friends offered to "buy local" response, even a website dedicated inventory of domestic-made products on the list. In Jin Baisong view, this is meaningless, because "after all, will domestic brand prices."
