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Baladna

Integrated dairy and juice producer with fresh milk, yoghurt, cheese, juices and UHT long-life milk under the Awafi budget brand.

Producer
Focus

Fresh milk, yoghurt, cheese, juices, UHT/long-life milk (Awafi brand)

Region

Qatar

Scale

22,000 cows; 700,000–900,000 litres/day capacity; 200+ SKUs; supplies 85%+ of Qatar's fresh dairy.

Products

5 product lines

Products
Product lines and their pricing benchmarks.

Juices

Fruit input proxy

UHT / Long-Life Milk (Awafi)

Budget brand, recombined

Cost drivers

The pricing benchmarks that drive Baladna's input costs.

FRED / BLS PPI (dairy proxy)·Dairy·live
$238.18
Index
+0.7%

Impacts portfolio

FRED / BLS PPI (butter proxy)·Dairy·live
$118.98
Index
+1.6%

Impacts portfolio

FRED / BLS PPI (skim milk proxy)·Dairy·live
$405.11
Index
+6.4%

Impacts portfolio

FRED / BLS PPI (fresh vegetables)·Vegetables·live
$363.72
Index
-8.0%

Impacts portfolio

Cost exposure
Share of cost by benchmark.
4benchmarks
Cost models
How benchmarks compose Baladna's unit cost.

Related analysis

Fruits, Vegetables & Juices LIVE · FRED Market Data·Jun 1
Vegetables (Proxy) fell sharply — -8.0% to 363.7

Vegetable Price Index (US PPI Proxy) fell sharply to 363.7 (-8.0% month-over-month), easing cost pressure on QATFA, Baladna. Source: BLS PPI: Fresh and Dry Vegetables (index proxy for vegetable wholesale).

Protein LIVE · FRED Market Data·Jun 1
SMP (Proxy) rallied sharply — +6.4% to 405.1

Skim Milk Powder (US PPI Proxy) rallied sharply to 405.1 (+6.4% month-over-month), raising input costs for Baladna. Source: BLS PPI: Fat Free / Skim Milk (proxy for skim milk powder).

ImpactsBaladna
Protein LIVE · FRED Market Data·Jun 1
Butter (Proxy) firmed — +1.6% to 119.0

Butter (US PPI Proxy) firmed to 119.0 (+1.6% month-over-month), raising input costs for Baladna. Source: BLS PPI: Butter (index proxy).

ImpactsBaladna
ProteinHassad Food Intelligence·Jul 15

GDT index climbs on tightening Oceania supply

The latest Global Dairy Trade event lifted the index 1.8% as New Zealand production softens into season — directly raising fresh-milk input costs for Baladna.

ImpactsBaladna
ProteinHassad Food Intelligence·Jul 12

Butter rallies as cream supply tightens

CME butter gained 2.4% on seasonal cream scarcity — feeding into Baladna's cheese and dairy-fat input costs.

ImpactsBaladna