date:Jul 14, 2014
April that sales growth had been dented by higher milk prices.
Companies aim to protect themselves against swings in commodity prices by measures including tailored procurement strategies and cost cutting.
Nestle, for example, has in the past changed recipes, altered packaging formats or simply raised prices to deal with periods of high raw-materials price inflation such as in 2007-2008, according to Yasmina Barin, an analyst at Swiss bank SYZ.
Even if this makes it hard to calculate the over