WHY PROTECT PRICES

Sustainability- Allows you to continue your business in the face of adverse price moves

Flexibility- Improve your ability to adapt to changing marketplace conditions. Price protection strategies may allow you to buy time for your business in a hostile pricing environment

Opportunity- With a smoothed and more predictable revenue stream, you can plan for:

• Capital improvements in your equipment.
• Acquisitions and expansion of your business.
• Equipment upgrades and enhanced maintenance.
• Labor and compensation issues for both your workers and yourself.
• The cost of financing expansion of your business may be lowered if your lender
  sees that your business has price risk management procedures in place.

Peace of Mind- Allow for more predictable accounting and focus on your business plan while minimizing the ever present threat and distraction of volatile prices.

Do you hedge? Do volatile price moves hurt your business?
Too often, we hear from businesses who want to have the “hedging conversation” when it’s
too late. You should be addressing this issue as a normal cost of doing business in the normal course of doing business. Otherwise you may actually put your business’s survival at risk.