French food company Danone reduces product range to cut costs

Earlier this year, some food stores were forced to take products off shelves because they could no longer afford to sell them. Picture: Lucas Schifres/ABACA.

French food giant Danone is cutting the variety of products it sells to retailers to cut costs, a top executive told Reuters, meaning yoghurt fans may in future miss out on the exact flavour or pot-size they're used to.

Supermarkets and the makers of packaged food are struggling to combat rising costs, with products ranging from crude oil to paper packaging becoming more expensive due to a protracted pandemic-led shipping crunch and Russia's invasion of Ukraine.