Karsten Keunecke Quotes (5 Quotes)

Sugar using industry has been fighting a very long-term battle in this field, and I'm happy to see that finally the EU has moved and reform is now on the horizon.

We're not happy with the political compromise that has watered down the deal and so we won't see price decreases before autumn 2008.

We're hoping that 2006 and several events coming up that make people eat more sweets -- the World Cup, for instance -- will increase consumption again by 1 or 2 percent.

We've seen hazelnut prices peak at 11-12 a kilo (9-10 euros), from 2-3 a kilo. That's not an evolution, that's a revolution, and for companies producing products with high hazelnut content, that's a real disaster.

We do believe that it's a question of how the overall economy is faring. The atmosphere is improving, everyone's looking forward to a positive development of the economy and we do believe that the confectionary industry will benefit from this.