The prices of Cloetta’s most important raw materials are set on the European commodities exchange, either directly, as is the case for cocoa, or indirectly such as with glucose syrup, the price of which is influenced by the price of wheat and barley. This means that our purchasing costs for these items are dependent on market pricing. Cloetta has a Central Purchasing department that can carry out more effective purchasing, both by consolidating and by using local purchasing opportunities. As a rule, the Central Purchasing department pre-purchases the most important raw materials so that raw materials are available for the equivalent of six to nine months of production. This also creates predictability in prices and financial outcomes, since price changes affect our purchasing costs with a certain delay. In this way, we usually avoid temporary price swings in the commodities market.