Price rises from a major supplier
28 August 2012
Q: My company, a maker of consumer products, has been contacted by our supplier of pallets, which is demanding a 50 per cent price increase. Although this may be down to its poor performance rather than rising raw material costs, it has a stranglehold on
A: Christopher Barrat, director of the Greystone Partnership, writes: Yes there is, although perhaps the last sentence of your question should have read: "Is there anything we should have done?" This goes to the root of the problem. Once you are in this type of situation, it is a tough one to escape. But there are ways, in the longer term...