The BIG InfoMonitor report shows this Liabilities owed to breweries registered with BIG InfoMonitor and BIK have increased by approximately 23 times over the past five years. Meanwhile, unpaid liabilities to vendors, after five years of stability, increased to approximately PLN 72 million over the past year.
Although the percentage of beer producers who have problems paying their obligations on time is decreasing, the number of unreliable debtors is nominally increasing. The average debt of each of them is PLN 840,000. Zloty.
The report indicates that this is the reason behind the poor financial performance Decreased beer consumption and sales In the face of the continuous increase in production costs, raw materials, packaging and personnel costs.
“Poles drank almost 40 billion liters of beer in 2018, but by 2023 consumption fell by 1/4 to 30.6 billion litres. Last year alone, consumption contracted by another 200 million litres, a 6.1% decline on an annual basis. Annual,” we read in the report.
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The report confirms that breweries are increasingly trying to salvage the situation They are forced to raise the prices of their products. In 2023, this increase averages 15.2%.