Referendum: which way are you voting?

I take it you are talking about CETA? That is great news. Thanks for sharing. Our European neighbours don't bend over and take it quite as readily as we do. How I will miss them.

Yeah, won't be long because sterling is so low that a trade deal would be daft not to have!

PS. All that bluster from the daily mail brigade, saying that Brexit won't hurt, dream on. The sterling scenario alone IS (facts from someone on the ground) pushing up the base prices. Making out that Unilever is a big bad wolf is a terrible piece of journalism because it misses the fact that Unilever is only the first one to be so public. Others are in the same boat and the population needs to accept that they will either be paying more for their food or that the suppliers to thus chain begin cutting their jobs because their margins are diminished.

x12yhp wrote: »

PS. All that bluster from the daily mail brigade, saying that Brexit won't hurt, dream on.

Whos saying that?

Of course there'll be short term pain.

But looking only for the problems and not for the opportunities would be a mistake.

x12yhp wrote: »

The sterling scenario alone IS (facts from someone on the ground) pushing up the base prices. Making out that Unilever is a big bad wolf is a terrible piece of journalism because it misses the fact that Unilever is only the first one to be so public. Others are in the same boat and the population needs to accept that they will either be paying more for their food or that the suppliers to thus chain begin cutting their jobs because their margins are diminished.

The problem with Unilever is that a significant percentage of their products are produced in the UK, however they were using the weak pound as an opportunity against Tesco.

We may, in the short term pay more for some items, but likewise is this not a great opportunity to buy locally produced goods?

motorguy wrote: »

Whos saying that?

Of course there'll be short term pain.

But looking only for the problems and not for the opportunities would be a mistake.



The problem with Unilever is that a significant percentage of their products are produced in the UK, however they were using the weak pound as an opportunity against Tesco.

We may, in the short term pay more for some items, but likewise is this not a great opportunity to buy locally produced goods?

Our company manufactures 99 percent of our products in the UK. We buy 75 percent or more from UK suppliers. Guess what? Every last supplier has raised their prices. We have raised our prices.

The media reporting is just nonsense from people who think that a supply chain starts with a buyer and ends with the seller. The truth is that many if not most goods are based on materials which start life priced in euro or dollars and you won't see that with such simplistic analysis.

donnac2558 wrote: »

Tesco and the other big supermarkets might have won, but it was reported last week on the local news UTV. Unilever are now hitting the smaller chains Centra,Mace,Spar and demanding the 10% price increase. These chains do not have the muscle of the big boys so Unilever products are disappearing from the shelves as people will not pay.

Great opportunity for Unilever's competitors then