Food and beverage

Sustainability pressures and rising prices

Negotiating favorable prices during periods of inflation and economic uncertainy poses a significant challenge for the F&B supply chain. The industry’s push towards sustainable packaging adds another layer of complexity and cost including sourcing alternative materials and redesigning packaging to meet sustainability goals without losing quality or competitiveness.

Fastmarkets provides the F&B supply chain with critical insights to tackle these challenges, offering market-reflective price data for better negotiation and sourcing strategies.

Transparent price data is crucial for strategic decision-making across the entire FMCG supply chain, allowing F&B companies to optimize pricing strategies, enhance profitability, and remain competitive in the market.

Our F&B suite offers tailored price data, supply chain intelligence, and extensive forecasting and analysis vital for managing costs and complexities associated with your raw material and packaging needs.

Transparency in supply chain management and costs

In the highly competitive F&B sector, businesses face the complex challenge of meeting diverse packaging needs across the supply chain, including protection, consumer appeal and cost-effectiveness. This diversity presents a unique challenge: aligning protection with presentation and price. The demand for transparency in the packaging and raw materials supply chain is escalating, with businesses striving to navigate raw material price fluctuations, transportation costs and regulatory demands.

Fastmarkets’ offers tailored solutions that help F&B businesses make informed decisions. Gain access to our comprehensive price data, covering:

• Primary packaging: Paper packaging, aluminium, green steel, tin, boxboard and cartonboard.
• Secondary packaging: Paper packaging, containerboard and boxboard.
• Tertiary packaging: Softwood pallets, hardwood pallets and corrugated board.