ZURICH/LONDON—The world’s biggest food group Nestle will lift prices again this year, Chief Executive Mark Schneider said on Thursday, after more costly ingredients contributed to making its 2022 profit miss market forecasts.
Rivals have said they anticipate a more positive pricing outlook for shoppers in 2023. But Schneider said further rises were necessary to offset the impact of increased commodity prices. That is bad news for consumers, whose spending power has already been hit by inflation at multi-decade highs.
The maker of Nescafe instant coffee and KitKat chocolate bars raised prices by 8.2 percent last year, but that did not fully offset the impact of increased costs for ingredients on margins….