Primus, One of BRARUDI products.
Sunday 1st January 2017, the new prices of Burundi Brewery Company- BRARUDI products have been announced on different media. Except non alcoholic drinks, others like Primus 72cl and 50cl, Amstel 65cl and 50cl, Amstel bock ,Amstel Royale and Nyongera, their prices have been increased. According to Brarudi, this has been done so because of the budget set for 2017. A budget of BIF 1326,9 billion of which 70% will come from the country’s revenue. This rise in prices has not gone down well with people especially consumers of those products.
This comes to worsen the matter. Some of our families are, today, in extreme poverty. My request is that the government should think of people with average revenue and see how they can manage it because, after all, we are the very consumers of the products. If we fail to afford them, this will affect the country, said Mr. Bosco, a civil worker in the capital Bujumbura.
“Personally this news does not surprise me given the economic situation the country is currently in. The direct consequence is that it affects the purchasing power. Perhaps, it looks like small increases, but those who have small budgets, 100or 200 is still much money”, said Mr Moise.
On this announcement, the Burundian consumers’ association ABUCO reacted saying that not only BRARUDI products’ prices have increased but also some other products’ prices. We appreciated the fact that it was done according to the law and followed the protocol of institutions in charge of regulating prices. Our concern is about other products whose prices have increased but which have not been mentioned, says Jean Noel Nkurunziza, ABUCO chairman.
“There is a possibility of being affected indirectly, because sellers may increase the price of other products in order to afford some others. Others may take it as an excuse to increase the prices of their products”, he says.
ABUCO recommends consumers to give up buying some products and buy the most essential ones
BRARUDI has increased an amount of 100 BIF on Primus, Amstel, Royale and Bock and BIF 300 on Nyongera.
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