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PRICES £/tonne m-o-m % y-o-y %
Packaging
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Source: Mintec
Info: All prices are indicative only and are representative within the country quotedAluminium alloy prices
continued their bearish year-
on-year trend in August,
mainly driven by sluggish
global demand for the base
metal. A lumina prices have
lost 16% quarter on quarter, as
a result of a resumption of the
output in Brazil, adding further
downward pressure.
European cold-rolled steel
prices have rebounded slightly
at the end of July as a result
of curbed output from main
European suppliers.
The falling price of the
feedstock styrene has caused
UK polystyrene prices to fall. At
the same time, low demand for
styrenics caused producers to
lower their o ers.
Meanwhile, a sharp fall in
propylene prices during June
due to falling naphtha prices
had a knock-on e ect on the
price of polypropylene in July.
The end of the maintenance
season has also caused
production to return to normal,
increasing polypropylene
supplies and pushing prices
down.wholesale prices: sluggish demand puts pressure on aluminium alloy
Fruit & veg deals boosted as
supers battle discounters
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upermarkets are o er-
ing more deals on fruit
and veg as they look to
tempt customers back from the
discounters.
There were a total of 653 fea-
tured space promotions on fruit
and veg in the major mults last
month, up 65.7% on last year
[Promo Dynamic Retailers 4 w/e
3 August 2019].
Almost all of the major mults
signi cantly increased promo-
tional activity on fresh produce
compared to the same period in
2018, the data shows.
Asda has more than doubled
its number of deals on both fruit
and veg, while Waitrose has
293% more featured space pro-
motions on fruit than last year.
Shoppers are also getting a
better deal on fruit promotions,
with average savings of 28%
versus 26.2% last year. Savings
on veg are down slightly at
25.4%. The Co-op is o ering the
best average savings on fruit
(43.3%), but Tesco has the best
savings on veg (34.9%).
It comes amid a wider
increase in promotional activity
in the major supermarkets,
which have all increased the
number of deals in store com-
pared to last year.
Wine, zzy drinks, meat
and crisps, nuts and snacks
are among the other catego-
ries to have seen double digit
increases in promotional activ-
ity. However, fresh produce still
increased its share of total fea-
tured space promotions by 1.8%
to 6.2%.Tesco red the rst shot in
a new fresh produce price war
in May 2019, when it launched
its Fresh 5 promotion o ering
shoppers signi cant savings
on ve own-label fruit and veg
products every two weeks.
At the time, Bryan Roberts,
global insights director at TCC
Global, suggested the likes
of Asda, Sainsbury’s and
Morrisons may follow suit with
similar price investments.Carina Perkins
PROMO DYNAMIC ASDA COOPMORRISONSSAINSBURY’S TESCO WAITROSE
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Source: Assosia, 4 w/e 3 August 2019Compiled for The Grocer by Assosia, Promo Dynamic
captures secondary and featured promotional space across
the UK’s leading supermarket chains — Asda, Morrisons,
Sainsbury’s, Tesco and Waitrose — on a weekly basis. For
more information please contact Kay Staniland on 01708
444840, email [email protected] or
visit http://www.assosia.comTesco had clearly recognised
that fresh produce was a “key
battleground for a number of
shoppers”, Roberts told The
Grocer.