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UK Retail Prices

Published 30 January 12

UK Retail Prices

UK Dairy Product Retail Prices

Below are the latest weekly price check completed by ESA for the week ending 27th January 2012. 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

25/01/12

Last Week

18/01/12

Week on week difference

Liquid Milk

Liquid Milk Retail

4 pint

125

125

-

 

Liquid Milk Doorstep*

1 pint

65

65

-

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cream

Fresh double cream

600ml

161

161

-

 

 

 

 

 

 

Butter

Butter Anchor

250g

161

161

-

 

Butter Country Life

250g

148

149

-1p

 

Kerry Gold Butter

250g

140

140

-

 

Lurpak

250g

161

161

-

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cheese-Cheddar

Budget Mild Cheddar Own Label

 

Per kg

572

584

-12p

 

Cathedral City

Mature Cheddar

 

Per kg

1040

1173

-133p

 

English Mild Cheddar

Own Label

Per kg

681

681

-

 

Lake District Cheese Co Mature Cheddar

 

Per kg

904

918

-14p

 

Pilgrams Choice

Mature Cheddar

Per kg

976

982

-6p

 

Seriously strong Cheddar

Per kg

1100

1117

-17p

 

Wyke Farms Mature Cheddar (Rich & Creamy)

Per kg

769

769

-

UK - ESA Prices collected 25/01/2012

*Sourced from www.milkandmore.co.uk/

 

Please note from April 2001 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 Retail Prices

UK Dairy Product Retail Price Indices

In November 2011, the RPI index increased by 0.21% on the previous month and was 5.16% above a year earlier. Compared to the previous month, Butter's price indices decreased 0.8%. Compared to a year earlier, Butter, Cheese and Milk have all increased. The butter index was up by 9.17%, the cheese index was up by 7.48% while the fresh milk index was 2.6% above the level a year ago.

PRODUCT PRICE INDICES

 

NOV 2011

compared with
1 month before

compared with
12 months before

RPI price index

238.5

+0.21%

+5.16%

Fresh Milk

244.4

+0.04%

+2.60%

Butter

309.6

-0.80%

+9.17%

Cheese

240.1

+1.57%

+7.48%

Source: National Statistics Office