中国奶业巨头将提高乳制品价格

据北京时报报道，中国三大牛奶供应商将会将某些乳制品的价格提高10%。蒙牛，伊利，三元三大品牌商表示自2012年1月1日起他们只会提高首都北京的某些产品价格。

BEIJING - China’s three main milk producers will raise the price of some dairy products by as much as 10 percent, Beijing Times reports.

Mengniu, Yili and Sanyuan brands say they will only implement the price hike in the capital Beijing on certain products from Jan 1, 2012.

The increase, expected to be 0.2 yuan on a 250 ml carton, comes just days after China’s biggest dairy company saw their shares plummet after tests on Mengniu milk discovered twice the accepted level of a cancer-causing agent.

The newspaper, citing sources from Yili, claims the rise is due to the fluctuating price of raw materials.

But Wang Dingmian, a diary industry analyst, said labor costs and transport fees are responsible for the increase, not the cost of raw materials.