All The Grocer articles in 16 December 2017 – Page 2
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Analysis and Features
Personal care: Oral care: Brits splash out on pricier lines
If toothpaste and toothbrush makers are smiling about an extra £11.4m in sales, P&G will have the widest grins
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Analysis and Features
Oils: own-label oil beats brands as prices soar
Oils have seen another year of rampant price rises in the face of exchange rate fluctuations and supply shortages
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Analysis and Features
Ice cream: up £45m despite wet summer
A good summer has always translated into strong ice cream sales
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News
Moving Mountains to launch 'bleeding' meatless burger in UK
It comes as US brand Beyond Burgers is tipped to hit UK supermarkets early next year
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Analysis and Features
Frozen food: attitudes thaw as prices rise
At last, some good news! Much needed value is being driven into supermarket freezers
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News
Asda and M&S festive ads favoured by public
Asda racked up 6,618 mentions on Twitter – 51.7% of which were positive – for its ‘Imaginarium’ ad
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News
Bread Holdings heads for sale with soaring sales
Revenues have surged 24% at Bread Holdings as the upmarket bakery group behind the Gail’s chain prepares a sale
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News
Lidl decides smaller is better in the US
Six months after entering the US with plans to build 100 large-scale stores, the discounter has changed its mind
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Analysis and Features
Laundry: Persil hit by £35m loss as laundry slips
Laundry has been taken to the cleaners this past year, with the supers losing sales to online and discount channels
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News
Christmas getting costlier as retailers cut promotions
Christmas is getting closer, but festive bargain hunters might be left disappointed by the deals on offer in the mults
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News
City snapshot: Conviviality offers to buy 127 Central Convenience stores following P&H collapse
Bargain Booze owner Conviviality has offered to buy 127 Central Convenience stores from WS Retail, following the collapse of its parent Palmer & Harvey into administration. Plus all the rest of the latest news from the City
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News
Media Bites 15 Dec: Ocado, Tesco, Steinhoff
Delivery drivers raking in £250-a-day as shortage in the run up to Christmas puts brakes on Ocado, writes The Daily Mail.
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News
Renewed calls for ban on sale of energy drinks to children
A new AOS report reveals “shocking” levels of sugar, calories and caffeine in products sold in the UK…
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Jonathan Ovens to dispute removal as Arla director
Dairy farmer was ousted as director of Arla amba co-op this week amid claims of ‘serious failings in corporate governance’
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News
Magners mounts challenge for Strongbow with Dark Fruit NPD
The NPD was launched as a challenger to Strongbow Dark Fruit’s dominion of the cider market
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Analysis and Features
Ready meals: sales soar on gourmet NPD
Convenience was king in 2017. Just look at the frozen, chilled and ambient ready meals sector’s combined growth of £117m
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Analysis and Features
Cheese: cheese gets squeezed as Cheddar falls
Life doesn’t get any easier for cheese brands. The whole category has experienced a contraction of space
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Analysis and Features
Household: discounters clean up
Own label is wiping the floor with brands in the household sector
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Analysis and Features
Cakes: brands turn to snacks as cake crumbles
Brits have munched their way through 10.6 million fewer packs of shop-bought cake in the past year
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Analysis and Features
Bread: brands go posh to see off inflation
At last, some of Britain’s bakers look poised to start making some decent dough again