Vanilla pod price rise threatens ice cream manufacturers (From Lancashire Telegraph)
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Vanilla pod price rise threatens ice cream manufacturers
10:10am Saturday 14th April 2012 in Business
Ice cream manufacturers have been hit by rising vanilla pod prices
EAST Lancashire ice cream manufacturers and sellers have been threatened with spiralling costs due to a worldwide shortage of vanilla pods.
But despite the increasing prices ice cream producers in the area have vowed to absorb the costs so customers do not have to foot the bill.
Huntley’s farm in Samlesbury produces Moo2You ice cream.
Owner Eddie Cowpe said: “We are one of a few manufacturers in the area that use vanilla pods in ice cream.
“A lot of companies who make ice cream use vanilla essence because it is cheaper.
“But we make a premium product, where the vanilla ice cream taste comes from the vanilla pods.
“As yet we have had no official notification that there will be a price increase.”
Globally poor harvest and businesses stockpiling supplies are said to be causing the shortage of vanilla pods.
Vanilla is the second most expensive spice in the world after saffron and is grown in Madagascar, Indonesia, India and Mexico,.
Wholesale prices are said to have shot up by 20 per cent in the last two months alone from just over £15 a kilo to around £21 to £25 a kilo.
Eric Dowson, a partner at Mrs Dowsons Ice Cream, Clayton-le-Dale,said: “At the moment there has been no impact because it takes quite a lot of time to go through the market.
“Vanilla ice cream and good quality chocolate ice cream also uses vanilla.
“But certainly as things are going there will be an effect which may force prices up in the future.
“But the biggest impact may be on Coca Cola which is the number one purchaser of vanilla in the world.”
Ice cream sellers Rippleheads Ices, Blackburn, owner Catherine Elliott, said that pushing up prices would be a ‘last resort’.
She said; “We would offer vanilla ice cream but we would push the sales of other flavours.
“Pushing up prices is a last resort as we pride ourselves on value for money.”
Mr Cowpe added: “We make 1,000 litres of vanilla ice cream a week and that uses an awful lot of vanilla pods.
“To make nine litres we use 300mm of pure vanilla.
“A price rise would cause a problem as we are setting the prices for the summer with our wholesalers.
“But overall the cost of everything is going up all of the time.
“But we will absorb the cost if the price of vanilla goes up.
“If it goes up to silly prices and becomes very expensive it will not be easy and may consider putting prices up but that wouldn’t be until at least next year.”
As well as ice cream, all products such as sweets, cakes, soft drinks and perfume that contain vanilla could be affected.
Comments(29)
sen c bl
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10:42am Sat 14 Apr 12
Michael@ClitheroeSince58
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11:13am Sat 14 Apr 12
happycyclist
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11:25am Sat 14 Apr 12
mavrick
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11:38am Sat 14 Apr 12
psch
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12:56pm Sat 14 Apr 12
Your ferret stinks
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3:58pm Sat 14 Apr 12
“To make nine litres we use 300mm of pure vanilla.
Eh? 300mm?
Your ferret stinks
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4:23pm Sat 14 Apr 12
happycyclist
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7:29pm Sat 14 Apr 12
Your ferret stinks wrote:Just a typo. He makes 1,000 kilometres of ice cream a year.
Mr Cowpe added: “We make 1,000 litres of vanilla ice cream a week and that uses an awful lot of vanilla pods.
“To make nine litres we use 300mm of pure vanilla.
Eh? 300mm?
I_Love_Mommy
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I_Love_Mommy
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8:09pm Sat 14 Apr 12
hairy mary
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9:09pm Sat 14 Apr 12
happycyclist
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9:32pm Sat 14 Apr 12
I_Love_Mommy wrote:I'm vaguely aware of some legislation a few years ago that prevented natural remedies being sold, which effectively handed over power to the big pharmaceutical companies. I seem to remember writing to my MP about it at the time and telling others. Is that the sort of thing you're on about?
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DavidVDW
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12:28am Sun 15 Apr 12
Vanilla bean prices have been at histroical lows for the past 6 years. Even if the price were to double immediately, it would still be very low by histrorical standards. Demand for industrial grade vanilla beans has actually fallen over the past 10 years due to the rampant and questionable usage of natural simulated vanilla flavors such as vanillin in many food formulations including ice cream.
It is certainly possible that vanilla bean prices rise in the near future and that would be welcome news to the vanilla farmers of the world, most of whom live in impoverished conditions. However, there is simply no current threat to the ice cream trade as your rather alarmist article suggests.
Thank you
David
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happycyclist
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9:10am Sun 15 Apr 12
Cha'mone MF
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9:37am Sun 15 Apr 12
DavidVDW wrote:I bet you're the life and soul of any party.
Unfortunately your article on vanilla is erroneous and poorly researched. There is ample supply of vanilla beans and vanilla flavorings on the market today. The production in Madagascar, who supply about 85% of the global vanilla trade, is healthy and is epxected to remain that way throughout 2012 and 2013. Major ice cream manufacturers contract thier ingredient requirements years in advance so any price increase in vanilla beans today would not have an immediate impact on consumers.
Vanilla bean prices have been at histroical lows for the past 6 years. Even if the price were to double immediately, it would still be very low by histrorical standards. Demand for industrial grade vanilla beans has actually fallen over the past 10 years due to the rampant and questionable usage of natural simulated vanilla flavors such as vanillin in many food formulations including ice cream.
It is certainly possible that vanilla bean prices rise in the near future and that would be welcome news to the vanilla farmers of the world, most of whom live in impoverished conditions. However, there is simply no current threat to the ice cream trade as your rather alarmist article suggests.
Thank you
David
A&H
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10:03am Sun 15 Apr 12
Cha'mone MF
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uth Korea will counter balance Weatern superiority.
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A Darener
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modan
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I_Love_Mommy
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A Darener wrote:Beautifully written and oh so true
sen c bl wrote: Modan tell me, what did the British invent?Football hooligans!
Graham Hartley
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6:03am Mon 16 Apr 12
happycyclist wrote:Surely this reference is to the length of the pods used. Three hundred millimetres is the approximate length of two pods.
Your ferret stinks wrote:Just a typo. He makes 1,000 kilometres of ice cream a year.
Mr Cowpe added: “We make 1,000 litres of vanilla ice cream a week and that uses an awful lot of vanilla pods.
“To make nine litres we use 300mm of pure vanilla.
Eh? 300mm?
How long is a pod if a pod is three hundred millimetres shorter than two pods and half of a pod?
woolywords
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12:54pm Mon 16 Apr 12
Michael@ClitheroeSinExcellent idea...
ce58 wrote:
Let them eat cake
Vanilla sponge or cupcake, anyone?
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modan
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modan
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10:24am Sat 14 Apr 12