British food manufacturers reported the first drop in their production costs since 2016 in May as lower commodity and energy prices and cheaper shipping outweighed a jump in wage bills, a Lloyds Bank report showed
Manufacturers' wage costs were rising more than twice as fast as average but commodity prices, as measured by the United Nations' food price index, were 21% lower than a year ago, the report showed.
"It will still take some time before we see the benefit in terms of shelf prices," said Annabel Finlay, a managing director at Lloyds Bank. "This is, in part, due to the long-term nature of contracts between the manufacturers and retailers, as well as the broader segments of the production chain." Food price inflation, as measured by Britain's Office for National Statistics, hit its highest since 1977 in April at 19.1% and only eased fractionally in May.
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