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Byline: Pitsinee Jitpleecheep
Jan. 6--Soft drink manufacturers may have no choice but to raise retail prices if the government floats the price of sugar, the industry's main raw material.
A soft drink executive said prices had been steady for seven years despite rising costs for raw materials, including plastic pellets, and rising oil prices, which have affected packaging and transport costs.
The country's two main producers -- Serm Suk Plc, the bottler of Pepsi, Mirinda and 7-Up, and Thai Pure Drink Co, the bottler of Coke, Fanta and Sprite -- have been asking the Commerce Ministry for price increases since 2004 but the requests have been ...