Almost every year, it is a psychodrama with a well-regulated scenario that is replayed: distributors and manufacturers scramble to set prices and conditions of sale for the coming year.
The tension was particularly sharp this winter between manufacturers eager to pass on the rise in the price of raw materials, and brands anxious to keep prices low for their customers.
The farmers, at the end of the chain, are in a hurry and pay the price for this tug-of-war.
The EGalim law, which entered into force in 2019, had made it possible to stop the price war that raged in the shelves in the years 2010. But the crisis arrived and tensions reappeared again.
In an attempt to put an end to this downward spiral for Ferme France, last October, the government commissioned Serge Papin, former boss of Système U and co-architect of the EGalim law.
After five months of work and hundreds of hearings, he has just submitted his report
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