Wholesale prices in Austria rose by 1.2% year-on-year in September 2025, accelerating from a 0.2% increase in the previous month. The latest figure marked the strongest growth since January, mainly driven by higher costs of coffee, tea, cocoa and spices (+24.6%), live animals (+21.5%) and watches and jewellery (+20.8%). Upward pressures also came from non-alcoholic beverages (+8.4%), meat and meat products, sugar, chocolate and sugar confectionery (each +6.6%). In contrast, prices fell for waste and scrap (-8.7%), plastics and rubber in primary forms (-8.6%), solid fuels (-6.4%) grain, seeds and animal feeds (-5.5%), hardware, plumbing and heating equipment and supplies (-4.3%), hides and leather (-4.1%), paper and paperboard (-2.0%), other liquid and gaseous fuels and related products (-1.3%). On a monthly basis, wholesale prices advanced by 0.3% in September, rebounding from a 0.6% drop in the preceding period.