UK Retail Prices

Published 8 May 13

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.

Dairy Category

Item

Quantity

This Week's Price (p)

5/05/13

Last week's Price (p) 24/04/13

Week on week Difference

Liquid Milk

Liquid Milk Retail

4 pint

124

124

-

 

Liquid Milk Doorstep1

1 pint

71

71

-

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cream

Fresh double cream

600ml

170

170

-

 

 

 

 

 

 

Butter

Butter Anchor

250g

168

168

-

 

Butter Country Life

250g

152

148

+4p

 

Kerry Gold Butter

250g

153

153

-

 

Lurpak

250g

162

164

-2p

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cheese-Cheddar

Budget Mild Cheddar Own Label

Kg

568

568

-

 

Cathedral City

Mature Cheddar

Kg

1180

1272

 

 -92p (incl. promotional changes)

 

English Mild Cheddar

Own Label

Kg

725

730

-5p

 

Lake District Cheese Co Mature Cheddar

Kg

1137

1137

-

 

Pilgrims Choice

Mature Cheddar*

Kg

1022

999

+23p

 

Seriously Strong Cheddar

Kg

1190

1223

+43p

 

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%).

PRODUCT PRICE INDICES

 

March 2013

compared with
1 month before

compared with
12 months before

RPI price index

248.7

+0.44%

+3.28%

Fresh Milk

245.5

-0.04%

+1.07%

Butter

308.4

-1.09%

+0.78%

Cheese

240.3

+1.91%

-1.03%

 

Source: National Statistics Office