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Iran war oil shortage forces Japan snack giant to use black-and-white packaging (www.theguardian.com)
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Calbee to switch its brightly coloured packaging to black and white because war has disrupted supply of certain raw materials used in ink

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Japanese markets are extremely sensitive to price changes and food price margins are razor thin. An ice cream company once publicly apologized for raising their prices by 10 yen ($0.10 USD) after years of keeping its price at 60 yen ($0.60 USD).

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