Virtually all of the rating changes at the higher end of the rating scale have been accompanied by one or both of these factors.

People would have been disappointed had it not got an M-rating, or not a higher rating than it had got in the past,

They never made them to this scale. We made them much higher, much wider, so that the client and the guest could lounge around at the dining room table.

Without oversight or enforcement, rule changes are virtually meaningless.

You end up with a number that's as accurate as an EPA mileage rating 'Your mileage may vary,'

The underlying message from the data is that at the coal face producers are seeing higher costs, but as one moves closer and closer to the consumer these are reduced in both quarter-on-quarter and year-on-year terms.