The Kiss Bak­ing Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed has said that it is re­view­ing all its costs at this time in light of the in­crease in flour prices.

The com­pa­ny said in a state­ment that it is "com­mit­ted to do­ing every­thing prac­ti­cal to min­i­mize the un­avoid­able im­pact that the in­crease in the price of flour will have on our prices and, by ex­ten­sion, on our cus­tomers."

Na­tion­al Flour Mills an­nounced a 33 per cent in­crease in the price of flour ef­fec­tive to­day.

The prices of some Kiss bread rose in Jan­u­ary by 50 cents to $1.50. Con­sumers were then asked to pay $15 for a Kiss whole­wheat sand­wich loaf, up from $13.75 – an in­crease of $1.25.

White milk bread rose to $14, al­so in­creas­ing by $1.25 from $12.75.

Whole grain went up $1.50 from $15.50 to $17.

Kiss im­ple­ment­ed the changes on Jan­u­ary 10, af­ter the de­ci­sions by ma­jor sup­pli­ers, state-owned Na­tion­al Flour Mills (NFM) and Nu­trim­ix to raise flour prices back then.

In a state­ment in De­cem­ber, Kiss Bak­ing Co Ltd had said it would in­crease re­tail prices on some bread prod­ucts by an av­er­age of nine per cent, not­ing, “Flour rep­re­sents a core in­gre­di­ent in the man­u­fac­tur­ing of bread.

About four months ago, in Sep­tem­ber the com­pa­ny raised some bread prices, cit­ing a 30 per cent in­crease in raw ma­te­ri­als and in­creas­es in oth­er op­er­a­tional ex­pens­es.

The announcement by Kiss Baking Company Ltd.

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