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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Sarah Butler and Julia Kollewe

UK food inflation may be gone by Easter, claims boss of major retailer

A customer shops for groceries at a supermarket.
Grocery price inflation slowed to 9.7% in the four weeks to 29 October. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/EPA

Food inflation could be all but gone by Easter, according to the owner of Kingsmill bread, Twinings tea and Silver Spoon sugar – as long as there are no further shocks to the global system.

George Weston, the chief executive of Associated British Foods (ABF), which also owns the Primark budget clothing chain, said: “Food price inflation hit 20% last year and by the back of 2024 I think it will be close to zero.

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