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.
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Dairy Category |
Item |
Quantity |
This Week 25/01/12 |
Last Week 18/01/12 |
Week on week difference |
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Liquid Milk |
Liquid Milk Retail |
4 pint |
125 |
125 |
- |
|
|
Liquid Milk Doorstep* |
1 pint |
65 |
65 |
- |
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Cream |
Fresh double cream |
600ml |
161 |
161 |
- |
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Butter |
Butter Anchor |
250g |
161 |
161 |
- |
|
|
Butter Country Life |
250g |
148 |
149 |
-1p |
|
|
Kerry Gold Butter |
250g |
140 |
140 |
- |
|
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Lurpak |
250g |
161 |
161 |
- |
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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 |
- |
|
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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 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.
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PRODUCT PRICE INDICES |
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NOV 2011 |
compared with |
compared with |
|
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