The analyst expects a further increase in chocolate prices in Russia

Prices for chocolate and confectionery products made from it in Russia will gradually increase over the course of the current year. As RIAMO reports, this forecast was voiced by the co-founder and CEO of the cloud service for monitoring and analyzing food prices “Tsenosaur” Konstantin Kalugin. Now, according to the expert, chocolate bars cost an average of 176.9 rubles per bar, and depending on the weight, their cost varies from 18.9 to 989 rubles. According to Cenosaurus, last year, even before the New Year holidays, the price of goods increased by 6.9 percent. However, as Kalugin noted, the price increase has now stopped. At first glance, this is strange, since cocoa beans, the main raw material for its production, are becoming more expensive almost weekly. However, the analyst gave his own explanation for this. According to him, rising prices for chocolate are slowing down the reduction of chocolate grams by manufacturers. In particular, a 95-gram chocolate bar became 90 grams, ...