In April this year, P & G announced its Head & Shoulders, Vidal Sassoon, including a variety of shampoo raised the retail price increase rate of 10% -20%. This also led to concerns about consumers day supplies of the new round of price increases.
This fear is likely to become a reality. Recently, there have been reports, Safeguard, Olay, Dove, Sunsilk, Lux, the Six God, Johnson & Johnson and Nivea shower gel brand generally raised the retail price of some brands price increases more than 30%.
Yesterday, the reporter visited a the Chen Cheng number of supermarkets and cosmetics store, results found, Shenyang, shower gel retail price is relatively stable, some businesses raised the retail price, but the increase rate is not large. The person in charge of a number of supermarket chains, revealed to reporters, has received notice of price increases, price hikes sooner or later.
In Shenhe District on the West Road near a 24-hour supermarket chains, sales personnel, shower gel prices actually rose, but the increase is not. Safeguard 750ml shower gel priced at 32.5 yuan, up 10% compared to a week ago, and 350ml of the six God toilet water rose from 8 to 9. "It has not officially received notice of price increases of businesses, but now raised ex-factory price, the retail price will certainly have to follow the change."
Compared with the small supermarket price of a small rise, the prices of the Chen Cheng supermarkets shower gel still soldiers did not move. Tesco supermarket in Shenyang, Ms. Wu said, shower gel supermarket prices unchanged from the same period of time before. "If prices, merchants consciously hoard goods, but shipments are normal, did not find signs of price increases."
Shenyang Carrefour relevant person in charge, Mr. Wang said, the prices of most products of the store not change, but has received notice of price increases Safeguard products. "Under normal circumstances, several well-known companies take the lead in prices will lead to other industries with the rise at the current situation the estimated June, daily chemical products prices rose across the board."
Analysis of the industry, oil, labor costs, logistics and transport fees, costs continue to rise, so that enterprises have by way of price increases to ease the increasingly higher cost pressures.
According to the global cosmetic companies Procter & Gamble has announced the financial results as of March 31, Procter & Gamble quarter total revenue in all business units of $ 20.19 billion, a slight increase; However, the net profit of $ 2.41 billion, compared with the same period last year to drop 16%.