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Bako North Western is a leading food service company, specialising in bakery supplies, serving the North West region from the company's headquarters in Preston, Lancashire. Launched over 45 years ago as a regional buying co-operative , today Bako provides Bakery Ingredients, Food Ingredients, and food service products to Bakers, Butchers, Food Manufacturing Companies, Catering Companies, Restaurants, Cafes, Coffee Shops, Sandwich Shops, Schools, Colleges and indeed any sector where a quality food wholesale supplier can add value to our clients business. The area we cover includes Lancashire, Cheshire, Parts of Cumbria, Merseyside, North Wales, Greater Manchester, West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire. Visit our "Meet the Account Handlers" page for more information on the areas we cover.

Trade customers looking for the UK's leading Bakery Supplies Company choose Bako every time for ambient, chilled, frozen, food ingredients and non food products as a result of over 45 years food service experience to the bakery industry, food manufacturing and customer focussed food industries.

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Market Report Update

  • GENERAL

    As the world economy continues to recover from the recession, the majority of commodities have recorded price increases in the year to May 2010, with non-food commodities having broadly shown greater upward year-on-year price movements than food commodities. Whilst for some commodities, like pulp and paper products, this increase has been driven by production or stock levels, other commodities have been subject to renewed speculative activity. However, in most markets prices have not yet reached the highs of 2007/08.

    • Against the $, sterling opened the month at 1.46, dropped mid month and rallied to 1.47 as at 15th June.
    • Against the Euro, sterling opened the month at 1.17, and has continued to increase to 1.20 as at 15th June.

    CRUDE OIL

    The price of Brent crude oil fell sharply during May by 17% as energy prices fell as concerns over the stability of European government debt spilled into the energy markets. There are worries about long term demand in Europe and Asia. The wholesale price of diesel fell by 14%.

    FATS AND OILS

    Vegetable oil prices ended the month mixed as global consumption of the major vegetable oils is expected to exceed total production in 2010/11. Rapeseed oil continued to trend upwards whilst Soyabean oil prices fell by 3% due to improved crop volumes. Palm oil prices have started to fall and Olive oil futures rose by 2% in Spain.

    DRIED FRUIT

    RAISINS - Perhaps as a response to California’s significantly increased exports this season from a similarly reduced total crop, the implementation of the export program has been torturous and once ratified, “only” covered the period up to end May.

    A new program for the period June-September has not been proposed and packers are waiting on USDA sign off.

    While Californian raisins report a 23% increase in exports, so bizarrely does Turkey report a 23% decline, and so the size of the Turkish new crop in addition to this carry in, is fast becoming increasingly significant.

    SULTANAS - There is a difference of opinion on the potential size of the Turkish new crop. Recent reports suggest that the crop itself is significantly more “patchy” than would be optimal, and reports suggest a figure of 280,000mts would take supply from optimal to average. For that reason, (and clearly in the UK made worse by the weak Pound against Dollar) prices have stabilised and although no one suggests that prices should climb back significantly, for sure we have seen a sense of cautiousness return with origin sellers for now at least, reluctant to offer lower until the new crop picture is better assessed in the coming weeks.

    CURRANTS - Although the widely reported news continues on Greece’s on-going battle to stop itself falling into complete economic collapse, the problem on Currants is more about availability rather than any other fundamental. It is recently reported that uncommitted stocks, even in the hands of the larger packers are running increasingly tight and although there is no suggestion that contracts confirmed earlier will not be honoured, the quantities of remaining “free stock” appears to be fast diminishing. For the UK at least, the origin strength has been offset by the weakness of the Euro against the Pound and prices remain stable.

    DAIRY

    Butter prices continued to move upwards over the past month with the largest increases of 20% seen for EU origin,due to very tight supplies in the market in general; New Zealand butter was also up 11% as supplies from Oceania are reported to be very low.

    Price increases continued in the powder sector; however, these rises have been more moderate. WMP continued to rise by 8% whilst SMP was up 6%. Milk production in the northern hemisphere is expected to fall seasonally from May onwards which should continue to support prices. Whey powder was down slightly across the markets. UK cheddar was up a further 3% as increases in price have been implemented to match the returns available from other dairy products. Cream was sharply up 14% as it is moving in line with increases seen in butter.

    COCONUT

    Once again, the on-going impact of the weak currency since our last report has continued to squeeze UK prices seemingly ever higher. Given that Sterling alone has depreciated by 12% since the (recent) highs in early 2010, and set against reports of drought reducing production in the Philippines and a recent period in which origin sellers were fully committed, thereby reducing UK stock holdings and creating a time lapse between the end of “buffer” uncommitted stocks and likely replacement, this has resulted in prices jumping significantly from the lows seen at the start of this year.

    PAPER

    Prices for pulp and paper products continued to rise across Europe due to very low stock levels and improving industrial demand. EU NBSK pulp prices continued to move upwards World stock levels of pulp were reported to be at 25 days, 2 days lower than the stocks held in March. The average price of testliner rose by 5% in the EU, with kraftliner, fluting and Cartonboard rising by 6% on average in the EU.

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