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One man’s inflation is another man’s pricing power. A report by Information Resources Inc. says revenues for consumer packaged goods (CPG) climbed 3.3 percent last year, driven by average price increases of 4.2 percent. At the same time, a difficult economy (including those darn price increases) worked to suppress demand for CPG goods in a number of sectors.
In some categories, a rise in dollar sales came in tandem with a gain in unit sales. In the tea/coffee ready-to-drink segment, for instance, revenues rose 25.3
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