Inflation spares no part of the economy.
School supplies will also suffer from the rising cost of raw materials due to the war in Ukraine.
The European leader in Oxford school notebooks has thus announced that its prices will increase by 20 to 25% for this start of the 2022 school year, reports RTL.
"The price of paper will double in the space of a year"
“To make a notebook, in addition to paper, you need cover, staple wire, a little glue.
The metal has increased very strongly, the plastic film to surround the pallets has more than doubled, ”confided to the radio the general manager of Hamelin, a company which bought Oxford.
"The price of paper will double in the space of a year, so we have passed on some of these increases," he admits.
These price increases would not even be enough to cover the increase in production costs for companies.
A word of advice: don't delay buying your children's supplies.
Manufacturers have indeed placed orders on the basis of prices set in the fall of 2021 for back-to-school products, before the start of the war in Ukraine.
Prices were already up but not as much as a few weeks later.
The note should therefore rise again after the start of the school year when these products are sold out.
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