Bio-bubble at bursting point?

摘要

QP Corp, Japan's largest manufacturer of mayonnaise, recently put up its prices by around 10 per cent. A small piece of news, perhaps, but notable insofar as this was the company's first price increase in 17 years. But it is not an indication of rising inflation in the Japanese grocery sector. "It's because the price of the ingredients - mainly rapeseed and soybeans - rose," a company spokesman told The Japan Times.