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Bread price jumps 109% in Zimbabwe
THE average price of a standard loaf of bread shot to $1 800 which is equivalent to US$1,70 at the official exchange rate of $1 059,60 to the greenback.This represents a 109% hike on the $860 ...Published: 03 May 2023 at 06:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
'There is no reason for bread shortage' Musarara
Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) national chairman Tafadzwa Musarara, however, said there is no reason for the country to experience bread shortages as there is adequate wheat in the count...Published: 08 Jun 2022 at 10:21hrs | 8 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Bread in short supply as bakeries demand US$
BREAD is in short supply in some parts of the country as some bakeries are demanding payment in United States dollars only.Tuckshop owners in Harare yesterday told NewsDay Weekender that they ...Published: 04 Jun 2022 at 19:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bread prices hiked
THE price of bread has gone up to $201 from $175, with bakers attributing the increase to the cost of the main ingredient, flour, coupled by escalating fuel prices.A survey by Sunday News Busi...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 08:55hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Bread price set to rise
ZIMBABWE'S baking sector has been thrown off balance by escalating fuel prices and deadly power cuts that have recently rattled the economy.So dire is the situation that some baking industry e...Published: 24 Dec 2021 at 16:39hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Bread price up
THE price of a standard loaf of bread has risen by 6,8 percent to $94 and the bakers have blamed the increase on the recent upward review of utility charges and the price of fuel.A snap survey...Published: 25 Mar 2021 at 16:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe runs out of wheat
Zimbabwe has run out of wheat and bakeries in the country may soon not be able to produce bread.One of the leading bakeries has suspended operations and other major players are holding their b...Published: 16 Jun 2019 at 09:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bakers debunk 100% local wheat bread
INDUSTRY experts have roundly discredited the proposal presented to Cabinet last week by a Gweru farmer who claimed that he could produce a standard loaf of bread using locally-produced wheat alone....Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 10:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bread price set to go up
The National Bakers Association of Zimbabwe (NBAZ) is considering another increase in the cost of bread because the obtaining price is no longer viable for the industry. Late last year, bakeri...Published: 31 Jan 2019 at 10:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bread prices expected to go up again
BREAD prices are expected to go up again as bakers try to adjust to rising production costs.Last year, bread prices went up thrice from 90 cents to $1,10 before shooting to $1,40.In No...Published: 03 Jan 2019 at 07:55hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa, Chamisa steal Christmas Joy
Long-suffering Zimbabweans are once again facing a bleak Christmas and New Year season - with the majority of the country's citizens jobless, penniless, hopeless and unable to afford even the most bas...Published: 16 Dec 2018 at 14:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fake brown bread on the market
Some unscrupulous bakers are reportedly colouring white flour brown in making bread as a substitute to using brown flour, NewsDay reported.The difference between colouring white flour brown an...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 05:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe bakers, retailers haggle over $5 bread
A STORM is brewing between the Confederation of Zimbabwe Retailers (CZR) and the National Bakers' Association of Zimbabwe (NBAZ) after the latter proposed to hike the price of bread from $1,50 to abou...Published: 22 Oct 2018 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe bakers plot $4 per loaf
Some stakeholders in the baking industry have held secret consultations over the past week to unilaterally peg the price of a standard loaf of bread to the prevailing black market rate of the United S...Published: 21 Oct 2018 at 15:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Millers resort to flour rationing
THE Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) has resorted to flour rationing to avert possible bread shortages as the country battles a crippling shortage of wheat, its worst cereal crisis since i...Published: 02 Oct 2018 at 09:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
RBZ blessed bread price increase
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) says the increase in the price of bread to $1 from 90 cents was arrived at following wide consultations across all sectors and realisation that cost pressures had in...Published: 09 May 2018 at 06:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bakers selling under-weight bread
Investigations by Standardbusiness have revealed that bread makers in Zimbabwe are short-changing consumers by making and selling bread weighing less than the government stipulated mass of 700g per lo...Published: 28 Jan 2018 at 08:12hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
No bread price hike
THE Grain Millers' Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) national chairperson Tafadzwa Musarara has ruled out any bread price hikes anytime soon.Bread, depending on the quality is retailing for...Published: 26 Apr 2017 at 05:44hrs | | by Mary Charamba
Bakers mull bread price increase
BAKERS have hinted on an increase in the price of bread and other flour products following a rise in the price of bread flour by between 10 and 25 percent as a result of nostro liquidity chall...Published: 24 Apr 2017 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bread price hikes imminent
Players in the baking sector have hinted on bread price increase anytime due to high cost of raw materials.The National Bakers Association of Zimbabwe (NBAZ) says the removal of wheat fr...Published: 01 Jan 2017 at 07:36hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Bread shortages ruled out, prices drop
The National Bakers Association of Zimbabwe (NBAZ) has ruled out the possibility of bread shortages in the country.Daily bread demand currently stands at 900 000 loaves with capacity utilisati...Published: 04 Aug 2016 at 08:51hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Prof Ncube to meet bakers over bread price
Industry and Commerce Minister Professor Welshman Ncube is expected to meet representatives of the National Bakers' Association of Zimbabwe (NBAZ) to determine whether their proposal to increase the p...Published: 02 Sep 2012 at 08:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bread price likely to go up
Bread prices are likely to rise from US$1 to US$1,20 soon unless there is an immediate drastic downward review of the import duty on flour. The National...Published: 26 Aug 2012 at 08:12hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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