We have received an unprecedented number of price increases from the suppliers. As a service to our retailers, the MacPherson’s buying team compiled a summary of all increases received so far. If you are looking for item by item detail, please go to MacPhersonart.com > Online Express > Macitem Report and look in the left-hand column.
ColArt Effective 2/15/09
Winsor & Newton:
Stretched Canvas – avg 10%
Canvas Boards – avg 10%
Easels – 10%
Artists’ Oil Colors – 3%
Artists’ Oil Bar – 7%
Winton Oil Color – 7%
Artisan Water Mixable Oil Color – 7%
Griffin Alkyd colors – 7%
Artist Watercolors – 6%
Cotman Watercolors – 6%
Finity Artists’ Acrylics – 7%
Galeria Acrylics – 7%
Artists’ Soft Pastels – 7%
Designers Gouache – 7%
Drawing Ink – 7%
Calligraphy Ink – 6%
Mediums/Varnishes – 5%
Galeria Mediums – 7%
Drying Oils & Solvents – 5%
Gesso/Primers – 5%
Aerosols – 7%
Brushes – 7%
Papers – 7%
Artists’ Charcoal – 6%
Palettes – 7%
Liquitex:
Soft Body and Heavy Body colors – 7%
Decorative Series & Glossies – no increase
Professional Acrylic Ink – 3%
Basics Color Sets – 5%
Basics Acrylic Colors – 3-5%
Gessos – avg 5%
Mediums/Varnishes – avg 6%
Painting Knives – 5%
Reeves:
All items – avg 7%
Canvas 10%
Acrylics -10%
Derwent:
Open Stock – 10%
Sets – 7%
Color & Co:
Avg 6%
Snazzaroo:
All items – 6-7%
Aleene’s Effective 2/15/09
Avg 5%
Armadillo Effective 2/14/09
Folios – 5%
Color Shapers -5 %
ColourFix Paper-8%
Krystal Seal – 20%
Strathmore Effective 2/2/09
Cards – 7%
ATC – 4%
Paper – avg 7.5%
Canson Effective 2/9/09
CN Paper – avg 5%
VG Oils & W/C -5%
VG H2O -9%
RB Oil -5%
Artist Acrylic Color – avg 7%
Sunnyside Effective 2/15/09
All products – avg 12.5 %
ScratchArt Effective 2/15/09
All products – avg 5%
Baumgartens Effective 1/1/09
All items – avg 9.61%
Tran Products Effective 1/1/09
All items – avg 10%
Mobius & Rupert Effective 2/1/09
Most items – avg 4%
MindWare Effective 1/1/09
Stained glass coloring books – 12%
Gamblin Effective 2/15/09
All items except Sketching oils – avg 8%
Princeton Effective 2/1/09
All items – avg 5.56% (except Series 4950, 5050, 5300, 9000 and water buckets)
Pennco (PM) Effective 2/15/09
All items – avg 13.14%
Palmer Effective 2/15/09
Face paints and finger paints – avg 5.31%
Rhodia Pads Effective 1/1/09
All items – avg 5%
Sargent Effective 2/15/09
All items – avg 12.66%
Sheaffer Effective 2/15/09
All items – avg 5%
Environmental Technologies Effective 1/1/09
All items – avg 3.95%
Moo Erasers Effective now (10/1/08)
All items – avg 14%
Cavallini Effective 2/15/09
Erasers – 4%
Wraps – 8%
Notebooks – 14%
Walter Foster Effective 1/1/09
Kits – avg 20%
Identity Group Effective 2/15/09
GeoSign – avg 8%-12%
Alumicolor Effective 2/15/09
All items – avg 11%
Badger Airbrush Effective 2/15/09
All items – avg 6%
Colorfin Effective 2/1/09
PanPastels & Softt Tools – avg 10%
Paasche Airbrush Effective 1/1/09
All items – avg 5-6%
DaVinci Brushes Effective 1/12/09
Open stock brushes – avg 6%
DaVinci Paint Effective 2/15/09
All items – avg 10%
Midwest Effective 1/1/09
All items – avg 5%
Quartet (ACCO) Effective 1/1/09
All items – avg 5%
Olfa Effective 2/1/09
All items – avg 5%
Carl Mfg Rotary Trimmers Effective 1/1/09
All items – avg 7%
Jones Palettes Effective 1/1/09
Palettes – approx 12%
Pentel Effective 2/15/09
Newer items – no price increase
Other items – avg 7%
Anderson Effective 2/15/09
Folding palettes – avg 9%
Canvas carrier – 11%
Portfolios – avg 23%
Tube wringer – 12%
Borden & Riley Effective 1/1/09
All items – avg 9%
Ampersand Effective 1/1/09
Museum & Artist panel lines – 5%
AMACO Effective 1/1/09
All items – avg 10.3%
Yasutomo Effective 2/15/09
All items – avg 5%
Mercur Effective 2/15/09
All items – avg 7%
Chroma Effective 2/15/09
All items – avg 3-4%
BestTest Effective 2/15/09
All items – avg 8-9%
Plaid Effective 2/15/09
All items – avg 5-6%
Saral Effective 2/15/09
All items – 5%
Daylight Effective 2/15/09
All items – 8-9%
Dahle Effective 2/15/09
All items – 7-22%
Staedtler Effective 2/15/09
All items except FIMO & Scales – 6-11%
UHU Glue Effective 2/15/09
All items – avg 6-7%
WD-40 Effective 1/1/09
All items – avg 6%