Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire called Thursday night for the "responsibility of industrialists" of the agribusiness, insisting again that they participate in the collective effort to limit the rise in prices. "Manufacturers do not play the game, they refuse to return to the negotiating table to negotiate prices down," said Bruno Le Maire in the program Daily on TMC, while he had received in the day the distributors who "played the game".
He also announced that he would receive the industrialists on Wednesday. Bruno Le Maire calls for a reopening of commercial negotiations between manufacturers and distributors, "at a time when wholesale prices are falling". Without giving a name, he said that these industrialists who do not "play the game", "are large industrial companies that represent very high turnover, several billion euros, with several thousand jobs".
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When prices soared, you called me to the rescue," he said, addressing food manufacturers. "I answered present, everyone played the game," he added. "I say to the industrialists: we helped you when it was not good for you. Now I appeal to their sense of responsibility," he said. "They do not have to take advantage of this crisis," said the Minister of the Economy.
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When electricity and gas prices soared, we went to recover the surplus profits of energy companies, if industrialists do not want to show a sense of responsibility we will do the same for industrialists, "he warned again. At this meeting, the heavyweights of the large distribution "collectively asked the government to take concrete measures to push the industrialists to the negotiating table," Dominique Schelcher, the CEO of Système U, told AFP.
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If ever the agri-food manufacturers refuse to enter into this negotiation, which obviously I can not imagine, we will use all the instruments at our disposal, including the fiscal instrument, to recover margins that would be undue margins made on the backs of consumers, "warned Bruno Le Maire in the morning during a trip to Essonne.
