BBCNEWS Talking Business June 4, 2024 23:33:00
And we have an agreed kind of profit margin for them on top of their raw material costs and their operating costs. so we know exactly what's going on there. and, you know, we don't have the same access to the profit structures of our branded suppliers, but we do challenge them as hard as we possibly can. ok, so let's start with the raw ingredients. take wheat, for example. before the pandemic, about four years ago, a bushel of wheat was trading on the market at $4.70. that spiked when russia invaded ukraine one year ago. the same amount of wheat went up to almost 13 bucks a bushel. but at the ...