Sentence examples for high commodity costs from inspiring English sources

Hershey's margins, however, are still being squeezed by high commodity costs and heavy spending to try to revive two years of flat sales.

But ConAgra, which posted a disappointing fourth-quarter profit, said that for the current fiscal year, which began in May, profit growth would be below its long-term goal, mostly because of high commodity costs.

Procter & Gamble reported a 7% decrease in profits for its first quarter Wednesday, dampened by high commodity costs.

While many food companies suffered this fall due to sky high commodity costs, Heinz raised prices this year to offset that challenge.

"We expect margins to remain suppressed during 2005," Banc of America said, citing high commodity costs, higher wages, labor-related costs and higher repair and maintenance costs to keep up with increased store traffic.

Its chicken unit has squeezed earnings in 2008 due to high commodity costs for corn, soybean and soybean meal, important feeds, which peaked in the summer, hurting all livestock producers.

Hubacher cites 3 obstacles to greater donor interest in the LNG IUS: high commodity cost; the belief that currently available method options are sufficient; and doubt about overcoming the barriers that the copper T 380A IUD (Cu T) often faces.

It faces important challenges, however, including: (1) high commodity cost; (2) often-strong provider resistance to IUDs and difficult programmatic requirements; (3) need for demand creation, including assessing if markedly reduced menstrual bleeding is attractive to clients; and (4) the many requirements for introducing any new contraceptive.

But eventually, higher commodity costs will pass through to consumers.

The company said higher commodity costs could also hurt its quarterly results.

Operating profit fell 8 percent as a result of higher commodity costs.