"We had to take, with our bottling partners, an increase on our sparkling beverage industry in the middle of the year, which is relatively uncommon, and that's the freight, the metals, the steel, the aluminum going up, the labor going up. So there is cost pressure. We're having to pass that through into the marketplace."
In recent months, President Trump ordered tariffs to be imposed on exports to the United States; The Wall Street Journal specifically cited tariffs placed on metal exports from China as one of Coca-Cola’s reasons for hiking prices.
文本选自
:FOX NEWS(福克斯新闻)
作者
:Michael Bartiromo
原文标题
:Coca-Cola is raising soda prices; CEO says consumers likely to feel effect
原文发布时间
:27 July 2018