Nestlé has said price rises will start to ease in the second half of the year, as the KitKat maker raised sales forecasts on better than expected performance in the six months to the end of June.
The world’s biggest food company reported a dip in sales volumes in interim results on Thursday, in a sign that customers are resisting rising food and drink prices.
Nestlé posted a drop in real internal growth — a proxy for sales volumes — of 0.8 per cent in its first half, having raised prices to cope with higher production costs and hived off underperforming brands. The fall was bigger than the 0.6 per cent forecast by analysts and followed a 0.5 per cent dip in the first quarter.