Press release No. 058 of 14 February 2025
Wholesale selling prices, January 2025
+0.9% on the same month a year earlier
+0.9% on the previous month
WIESBADEN – The selling prices in wholesale trade were 0.9% higher in January 2025 than in January 2024. Compared with the same month a year earlier, the rate of change was +0.1% in December 2024, and -0.6% in November 2024. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that wholesale prices in January 2025 also rose by 0.9% on December 2024.
Higher prices for non-ferrous ores, non-ferrous metals and non-ferrous semi-finished metal products, and for coffee, tea, cocoa and spices
The main reason for the year-on-year increase in wholesale prices (total) in January 2025 were higher prices in the wholesale of non-ferrous ores, non-ferrous metals and non-ferrous semi-finished metal products (+24.4%).
Coffee, tea, cocoa and spices were also considerably more expensive at the wholesale level (+34.4%) than a year earlier, as were sugar, confectionery and bakery products (+11.0%) and milk, milk products, eggs, edible fats and oils (+7.0%).
By contrast, the wholesale prices of iron, steel and ferrous semi-finished metal products (-6.3%) and of computers and peripheral equipment (-6.2%) were lower than in January 2024.
The wholesale prices of chemical products were also lower (-2.6%) compared with January 2024.
More information:
The statistical report (only in German) on the index of wholesale selling prices also includes the latest results. Long time series are available in the tables on the index of wholesale selling prices (61281-0002 and 61281-0004) in the GENESIS-Online database.
Wholesale selling prices can also be found on the Economic Dashboard, which is part of Dashboard Germany (www.dashboard-deutschland.de) (only in German). In this data portal, the Federal Statistical Office brings together up-to-date indicators from official statistics producers and other data providers on the topics of the economy, finance, the labour market, construction, housing, energy and Ukraine. The portal also contains the Economic Pulse Monitor (only in German) tool for real-time economic monitoring.
