Jars prices on the rise

[Poly Hive]

I've just placed an order with Freeman and Harding and asked about price rises and the answer was yes going up on Jan 1st but she didn't give me a number.

PH

 

[Curly green finger's]

Better get my order in then I'm just about to order jars.

 

[Murox]

Yes get yours ordered pronto and grab any sale offerings you can. I purchased a fair few when the prices of energy started soaring. takes a fair amount of heat to make glass.

 

[Curly green finger's]

Yes get yours ordered pronto and grab any sale offerings you can. I purchased a fair few when the prices of energy started soaring. takes a fair amount of heat to make glass.

I'm thinking of buying enough to last for a few years.
Shopping around at the mo

 

[Murox]

I'm thinking of buying enough to last for a few years.
Shopping around at the mo

watch out that you store lids carefully - they will degrade and rust !

 

[Curly green finger's]

watch out that you store lids carefully - they will degrade and rust !

Thanks for the heads up. The 8 oz jars we have lids were boxed separately but the 12 oz from freeman had lids on the jars.
I will be storing them in the project room hopefully.

 

[Erichalfbee]

I'm thinking of buying enough to last for a few years.
Shopping around at the mo

How many pallets?

 

[Newbeeneil]

I'm thinking of buying enough to last for a few years.
Shopping around at the mo

I found BFA were by far the cheapest on a mixed pallet.

 

[Curly green finger's]

I found BFA were by far the cheapest on a mixed pallet.

Still not a member

 

[Curly green finger's]

How many pallets?

One of each

 

[bobba]

Better get my order in then I'm just about to order jars.

That is what I did last year, this years crop was not so good, so jars should last even longer than planned.

These are the Jars I use, not everyone style I know, but the customers like them.

https://www.jazjar.co.uk/collections/round-jars/products/380ml-1-lb-round-jars
Prices have gone up since my last order too.

 

[pargyle]

One of each

That's 2376 12oz and 3330 80z. I find, these days, that 12oz outsells 8oz by about 3:1 so I'd have adjusted the proportions - perhaps your sales proportions are different ? You are knocking on the door of £2000 even with discounts. Unless you are expecting to harvest about one and half tonnes of honey next season you are tying up a whole load of capital for potential savings that may or may not materialise ?

 

[Curly green finger's]

That's 2376 12oz and 3330 80z. I find, these days, that 12oz outsells 8oz by about 3:1 so I'd have adjusted the proportions - perhaps your sales proportions are different ? You are knocking on the door of £2000 even with discounts. Unless you are expecting to harvest about one and half tonnes of honey next season you are tying up a whole load of capital for potential savings that may or may not materialise ?

Forcast is for 1 ton that's my aim, and I get where your coming from.

 

[Newbeeneil]

That is what I did last year, this years crop was not so good, so jars should last even longer than planned.

These are the Jars I use, not everyone style I know, but the customers like them.

https://www.jazjar.co.uk/collections/round-jars/products/380ml-1-lb-round-jars
Prices have gone up since my last order too.

You would get them a bit cheaper from F&H with a beekeepers discount.

 

[pargyle]

Forcast is for 1 ton that's my aim.

Good for you ... @ 30kg a hive - you should walk it with 50 hives. Assuming of course that it's a reasonable season.

It's still a lot of jars and capital to tie up for what may be little additional profit in real terms and there is a cost to that.

I work on the same basis as the supermarkets ... just enough stock of jars, just in time, at the best price I can get at the time. If the price of jars go up then my price gets adjusted accordingly and my profit margin remains the same.

What are your predicted savings on buying 2 pallets now ? IE: How much have you saved by buying two pallets now against what you think you might have paid when you need them next year ? And are you going to increase your prices if the price of jars does go up or are you using the purchase to keep your prices down ? Remember .. if jar prices go up you will have to pay more for the next batch.

Some thoughts for you about the realities of commerce.

 

[bobba]

You would get them a bit cheaper from F&H with a beekeepers discount.

F&H ?

 

[Repwoc]

F&H ?

https://www.freemanharding.co.uk/

 

[ericbeaumont]

Still not a member

What reason did they give? What more do they want you to demonstrate?

 

[Curly green finger's]

I'm not sure all I got told was which I've said before was reapply when you have 60 production colonys.

 

[Nannysbees]

Just bought 72 jars from amazon, wishful thinking for next year