Hardware product prices may continue to rise by 10% to 20%

“How did the wire rise so fast? It actually rose by more than 20 blocks.” Mr. Hu, who is currently in the economic development zone in the hardware and cable market in Jindu City Jindu Market, is skeptical about the offer of the business. Xu’s boss explained: “The raw materials such as copper, aluminum and plastic have all gone up in price, and labor and freight have also gone up. The wire and cable have also had to follow the price increase.” The author was informed that from October last year to the present, half a year, The price of copper rose a lot, not to mention labor and freight.

See the boss Xu slightly idle, the author came up and talked to him. “The raw materials have gone up and down, but the prices raised by the manufacturers have basically not fallen. Plus, the labor wages have risen too much this year. From the frontline workers to the management staff, the increase rate has reached 30%. These cost manufacturers can only be grafted. The customer's head. As a distributor, we are suffering."

Dealer analysis, hardware city as the country's largest hardware product distribution center, the annual hardware product throughput is very alarming. The raw materials for hardware products are steel, iron, copper, aluminum, zinc and other non-ferrous metals. Since 2011, almost all of the prices of these metal raw materials have increased. Coupled with the continuous increase in domestic refined oil prices, coal prices are also very unstable and the artificial wages rose sharply, resulting in hardware companies are facing a very large cost pressures, prices have become the hardware industry's most effective but also the most helpless choice. It is expected that the prices of hardware products will continue to rise for the next period of time, and the increase is expected to be about 10% to 20%. In the second half of the year, prices of hardware products will remain relatively stable with the stabilization of prices for raw materials and labor.

With hardware products one after another to raise prices, decoration industry is undoubtedly the most directly affected by the hardware prices affected industries, as long as the copper-iron-containing building materials products are increasing prices, a bundle of ordinary copper core wire more expensive than 100 years ago. Consumer Ye Ye said that the same is the decoration of 100 square meters of suites, years ago locks, door handles and other hardware, wire budget is about 4,000 yuan, but after the year by the hardware market, the actual purchase price would have to 5,000 yuan before Get it.

Affected by the continuous rise in raw material prices and rising labor costs, it seems that prices for small home appliances such as electric fans, gas stoves, and induction cookers are already on the verge. Recently, many small home appliance dealers have revealed that they have received verbal price increases from a number of brand manufacturers. Fans, hoods and other small household appliances have averaged about 5%. Many well-known brand products have already completed price adjustments, and their main measures are to reduce market incentives, increase the original price, and then cut down on price promotions.

Raw materials, labor, and shipping prices rise, and most hardware products follow. Jincheng Third Street boss Yang told the author: “In previous years, the price increases were three or five points, but this year the situation is not the same, a large reason may be that the ex-factory price in previous years is basically only affected by the raw material ups and downs, but this year After the Spring Festival, the wages rose too much, manufacturers began to implement substantial price increases should also be out of frustration." Yang introduced raw materials rose, not entirely uplifted market demand, there are hot money speculation factors. However, the general rise in labor wages is a national trend. Therefore, it is difficult for manufacturers to raise their ex-factory prices without increasing the cost pressure.