**Alert** Confirmed: A-B Price Increase 3 – 5%

July 19, 2011**Alert**Confirmed: A-B Price Increase 3 - 5% Dear Client:In a memo to distributors, A-B chief Dave Peacock confirmed that "region sales contact will be in touch with you to share specifics" about an October 3 price increase "in most markets" which will vary by brand and package and market. The frontline price increase will be "between 3.0 percent and 5.0 percent" and will "help offset recent cost increases driven by commodity fluctuations and other macro-economic factors." Dave writes