UK Retail Price Movements
Below are the latest weekly price check completed by ESA for the week ending 5th May 2013. It highlights price movements across key dairy categories. Shown are the top 5 selling Cheddar Cheese brands and the top 4 Butter brands as recorded by Kantar Worldpanel volume sales.
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Dairy Category |
Item |
Quantity |
This Week's Price (p) 5/05/13 |
Last week's Price (p) 24/04/13 |
Week on week Difference |
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Liquid Milk |
Liquid Milk Retail |
4 pint |
124 |
124 |
- |
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Liquid Milk Doorstep1 |
1 pint |
71 |
71 |
- |
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Cream |
Fresh double cream |
600ml |
170 |
170 |
- |
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Butter |
Butter Anchor |
250g |
168 |
168 |
- |
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Butter Country Life |
250g |
152 |
148 |
+4p |
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Kerry Gold Butter |
250g |
153 |
153 |
- |
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Lurpak |
250g |
162 |
164 |
-2p |
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Cheese-Cheddar |
Budget Mild Cheddar Own Label |
Kg |
568 |
568 |
- |
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Cathedral City Mature Cheddar |
Kg |
1180 |
1272 |
-92p (incl. promotional changes) |
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English Mild Cheddar Own Label |
Kg |
725 |
730 |
-5p |
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Lake District Cheese Co Mature Cheddar |
Kg |
1137 |
1137 |
- |
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Pilgrims Choice Mature Cheddar* |
Kg |
1022 |
999 |
+23p |
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Seriously Strong Cheddar |
Kg |
1190 |
1223 |
+43p |
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Wyke Farms Mature Cheddar (Rich & Creamy) |
Kg |
872 |
872 |
- |
UK - ESA Prices collected 1/05/2013
1Sourced from www.milkandmore.co.uk/
*Price changes due to additional retailers stocking product.
Please note from April 2011 retail price data is being sourced from ESA market research, previously the data was collected by DIN consulting. Whilst comparisons cannot be made between the new and previous data sources, information on retail prices collected from DIN consulting can be accessed by clicking on the retail prices 2000 to 2011.
UK Dairy Product Retail Price Indices
In March 2013, the RPI increased slightly compared to the previous month, and was 3.28% above the RPI a year ago. The fresh milk index remained similar to last month (-0.04%) and was up 1.07% compared to this time last year. For butter, the index declined slightly vs. last month, but was slightly above the figure for last year (+0.78%). The cheese index was up compared to last month (+1.91%), but still down compared to the previous year (-1.03%).
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PRODUCT PRICE INDICES |
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March 2013 |
compared with |
compared with |
|
RPI price index |
248.7 |
+0.44% |
+3.28% |
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Fresh Milk |
245.5 |
-0.04% |
+1.07% |
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Butter |
308.4 |
-1.09% |
+0.78% |
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Cheese |
240.3 |
+1.91% |
-1.03% |
Source: National Statistics Office