Waiting for the Easter bunny

Slow business at the German egg market

The upcoming Easter festival has not yet triggered any significant revival in demand, and buying interest is unusually calm on all sales channels. At the consumer level, no more eggs have been bought than usual, and the processing companies obviously still have sufficient stocks. The egg dyeing factories are also rather reluctant to order. At the moment, the supply exceeds the demand in almost all weight classes, only white eggs in weight class M are sometimes in short supply. The providers can therefore only charge a little more for these sortings, otherwise little changes in the prices. This means that there are no holiday-related surcharges on the shop floor either.
 
Three weeks before Easter, a ten-pack of eggs in weight class M (standard goods, mostly caged) cost a national average of 1,10 euros, which was 21 cents less than at the beginning of January. Free-range eggs from conventional production cost an average of 1,84 euros per ten pieces, five cents less than at the beginning of the year.

Source: Bonn [ZmP]