11.   Food companies, reacting to consumer complaints and lower priced store brands, began slashing breakfast cereal prices more than a year ago.

12.   Food companies, reacting to consumer complaints and lower-priced store brands, began slashing breakfast cereal prices more than a year ago.

13.   Food-industry officials, however, say cereal prices have risen less than the rate of inflation, if coupon discounts are considered.

14.   It has been more than four years since Kellogg last increased cereal prices, and it says average prices have declined a bit since then.

15.   Lower cereal prices were inevitable after industry leader Kellogg Co. cut its prices earlier this month.

16.   Quaker Oats is struggling with more than cereal prices.

17.   U.S. cereal manufacturers, recently fought a war of promotions, with coupons and other offers cutting into cereal prices that some American consumers were criticizing as too high.

18.   The association also will ask cereal companies if regional consumers will benefit from the planned cut in cereal prices, McDowell said.

19.   If cereal prices have remained calm in the face of imminent dangers on the horizon, the same cannot be said of coffee.

20.   American cereal prices tumbled as investment funds decided to pull out of some of their contracts on the Chicago futures market.