There are around 360 bakeries, confectioneries and butchers with production facilities in the nine Tyrolean districts – for now! Because at Easter next year the lights could go out at the first. The reasons for this are, on the one hand, the sharp rise in prices in the areas of raw materials, packaging materials and logistics due to Corona, and, on the other hand, the now exploding energy prices as a result of the war in Ukraine.
If politicians don’t intervene in a supportive manner soon and electricity and gas prices continue to rise, “it is a threat to the company’s existence,” emphasize Gerd Jonak and Georg Schuler, spokesmen for the bakers and butchers in the Tyrolean Chamber of Commerce. Due to the unwritten law of socially acceptable prices, it is not possible to pass on the increase one-to-one to customers. If you did that, you would have to sell a kilo of brown bread for eight euros and a piece of cake for ten euros, and a kilo of extra sausage for around five euros more.Energy cost subsidy and electricity price cap demanded “The sales prices would at least double,” the two officials calculate. Like the industry, the food producers are demanding an energy cost subsidy, as private households receive, as well as an electricity and gas price cap. Should the “worst-case scenario” occur, the investment in making the apprenticeship attractive would also have been in vain, warn Jonak and Schuler in conclusion. Not to mention the 200 apprentices who would have to fear for their jobs at the moment.
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