Every month our customers receive what the market actually paid for whey and milk protein: the offers suppliers made, the prices buyers were willing to pay and where deals really closed. Not a list price, not a model. It is the same market your quotes are built from, so you can see that your price follows the market and nothing else.
The NLS Dairy Protein Market Report is a monthly report that Nordic Life Systems shares with its customers. It is compiled by our research analysts from the daily work of our sourcing desk: the offers we receive from European dairies and traders, the prices brands and manufacturers tell us they will pay, and the deals that close. For each grade it shows three price ranges in euro per tonne, the change against the previous month, availability and lead time, and our read for the next weeks. It exists for one reason: our quotes are built from the same market reference, with a fixed margin, so customers can check that their price moves with the market and that we do not profit from its swings.
A three-minute read. Below a preview of the first issue with the figures blurred; customers receive it in full.
Supplier offers: what dairies and traders offered us. Deals closed: where business was actually done. Buyer ceiling: what brands and manufacturers were willing to pay. Each in euro per tonne, FCA EU, from one pallet, with the change against last month.
The distance between offers and buyer prices, per grade. A wide gap means little business and usually a move toward the buyers. Only a desk that sits between both sides can see it.
Which grades ship within two to three weeks and where allocation is tight, so you can plan the next quarter.
Milk and cheese output, export flows, protein demand, energy and currency, in plain words.
For bulk buyers: cover now, buy as needed or split the volume. For brands: how the move changes the cost of a finished product.
Where our desk figures stand against the public price reports, with links, so you can compare.
We earn our margin on the service, not on the swing. Dairy protein prices can move by half within a year; that volatility should never become our profit at your expense.
One market reference, named on every quote. Your quote is built from the dated price at which we buy the grade that week. It is the same reference we calculate with ourselves, and it carries its date.
A fixed handling margin per grade. One figure per grade for qualification, documents, quality release and service. It is the same in a rising and in a falling market, and it is written on the quote.
When the market falls, your next quote falls. We do not hold old prices to widen the margin. When the market rises, the margin stays where it was; only the reference moves.
Logistics as its own line. Pallet, bags, transport and insurance appear separately, so nothing is hidden in the product price.
The report lets you check it. Because customers see the same market each month, they can compare the reference on their quote with what the market paid. The full quoting method is explained in the whey protein price report.
The NLS Dairy Protein Market Report is compiled by our research analysts from the working data of our daily business, not from published price lists. Every day our sourcing desk receives offers from European dairies and traders, and talks with brands and manufacturers about what they buy and what they are prepared to pay. We record every offer, every buyer price and every closed deal for the grades in this report, combine them at the end of each month and publish the ranges and the direction. Published benchmarks serve only as a cross-check. That is why the report shows what the market really pays, not what a price list assumes.
There is no public mailing list. Nordic Life Systems sends the report personally to its customers: brands and manufacturers who buy dairy protein from us in bulk or have their finished products made with us.
Bulk dairy protein starts at 300 kg per grade; MPI 84 lactose-free from one pallet of 720 kg. Finished products under your brand start at 500 units. Tell us what you need and we answer within 24 hours with a written quote built the way described above.
The public monthly view of the market, with sources and history, stays free in the whey protein price report.
A monthly report on bulk dairy protein prices and availability in Europe. For WPC80, lactose-free WPC80, WPI90, clear whey, MPC85, MPI90 and lactose-free MPI it shows the range of supplier offers, the range of closed deals and the range buyers were willing to pay, with the change against the previous month, lead times and our read of the next weeks.
By becoming a customer. Nordic Life Systems shares the report personally with the brands and manufacturers it supplies; there is no public sign-up.
From our own daily business: the offers we receive from European dairies and traders, the prices buyers give us and the deals that close. Our research analysts combine them each month. Published benchmarks are used only to cross-check.
Your quote shows the dated raw-material reference it is built on, our fixed handling margin per grade and logistics as a separate line. The margin is the same in a rising and a falling market, and when the market falls your next quote falls with it. The report lets you compare that reference with what the market paid that month.
No. Our margin is a fixed figure per grade for the service we provide, not a share of the price. When the reference rises, only the reference moves on your quote; the margin stays where it was.
No. They are market levels in euro per tonne, FCA EU, for quantities from one pallet. Your own price depends on grade, quantity and delivery and comes as an individual written quote.
Never. Only ranges are published, each based on at least three data points, so no supplier, buyer or single deal can be identified.
English and German, in the first week of every month.
Send a few lines about your product: format, market, rough volume. Minimum orders: 500 units per SKU for sports nutrition, 60,000 capsules or 300,000 stick sachets for probiotics, bulk probiotic cultures from 10 kg. You get an answer within 24 hours.
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