date:Jul 14, 2014
ficult to quantify the direct impact on companies from the recent drop in the price of staples such as sugar, wheat and corn, some analysts expect on average a one-percent earnings increase for top consumer firms that save money on raw material costs when commodities are cheap.
For brewers such as ABI, the lower wheat price is a good thing. It would benefit Nestle as well in the sense of lower input costs while Danone would benefit from falling dairy prices, said Andrea Williams, European equit