This is a bit sad news for SHIMANO lovers… As DAIWA has also announced they will increase their tackle prices in 2016, SHIMANO has also announced they will increase their prices this year, which happened in 2 years ago, 2014.
What and How Much increased
Shimano announced the reason to increase this timing is as below:
“We decided to review and change the prices due to soaring material and transpotation costs repeatedly because of the yen’s depreciation trend from last year, despite we stacked corporate efforts as much as possible.”
From SHIMANO home page (Source: Japanese)
And the increasing price is actually to all their fishing tools, such as rods, reels, lures and every type of products (not all products but all categories). That will be in between 5 – 30% up.
This price update will be on April 2016.
*Additional (4/10): we checked this was made already.
