Press release No. 210 of 13 June 2025
Wholesale selling prices, May 2025
+0.4% on the same month a year earlier
-0.3% on the previous month
WIESBADEN – The selling prices in wholesale trade were 0.4% higher in May 2025 than in May 2024. The year-on-year rate of change was +0.8% in April 2025, and +1.3% in March 2025. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that wholesale prices in May 2025 fell by 0.3% on April 2025.
Higher prices for food, beverages and tobacco, non-ferrous ores, non-ferrous metals and non-ferrous semi-finished metal products
The main reason for the year-on-year increase in wholesale prices (total) in May 2025 were higher prices of food, beverages and tobacco, with prices up 4.3% from May 2024, on average. The wholesale prices particularly of coffee, tea, cocoa and spices were much higher than a year earlier (+38.4%), as were the prices of sugar, confectionery and bakery products (+17.1%). Milk, milk products, eggs, edible fats and oils (+8.9%) were also considerably more expensive than in the same month a year earlier.
The wholesale selling prices of non-ferrous ores, non-ferrous metals and non-ferrous semi-finished metal products also increased substantially compared with the same month of the previous year (+19.5%).
By contrast, the wholesale prices particularly of solid fuel and mineral oil products were lower (-8.5%) than in May 2024.
Year on year, lower prices were also reported in the wholesale of computers and peripheral equipment (-6.0%) and iron, steel and ferrous semi-finished metal products (-4.8%).
More information:
The statistical report (only in German) on the index of wholesale selling prices also includes all the latest results (base year 2021). 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.
