The number of food and beverage price hikes in Japan is set to drop by nearly 60% from a year earlier in February, a private research firm\u2019s survey showed Friday, in a sign that inflation might be slowing down.<\/p>\n
The country\u2019s 195 major food and beverage makers are scheduled to raise prices on 674 items in February, down 59.3% from over 1,600 hikes in the same month last year that were chiefly for processed foods, Teikoku Databank said. This would mark a second month in a row of such a decline, it said.<\/p>\n
According to the survey, 298 alcoholic beverages and soft drinks, including cooking sake and fresh juice, will lead the planned price increases, followed by 283 processed foods.<\/p>\n
Kagome will raise the shipping prices of its Yasai Seikatsu 100 vegetable juice and 103 other beverages by up to 19.1% while Toyo Suisan Kaisha will push up the suggested retail prices of 41 items in its Maruchan cooked rice series by 12%-16%.<\/p>\n
\u201cOverall, food and beverage price increases have come to a halt,\u201d a Teikoku Databank official said. But at the same time, the official warned, \u201cThe weak yen could pose an inflation risk in and after May.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The number of food and beverage price hikes in Japan is set to drop by nearly 60% from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,184,453,85,932,46,14989,14990],"class_list":["post-266169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-food","tag-il","tag-inflation","tag-israel","tag-japanese-economy","tag-surveys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}