All The Grocer articles in 19 December 2015 – Page 4
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Analysis and Features
Me-toos lose in household spring clean
The threat of range rationalisation looms large in household
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Analysis and Features
Chilli sauces turn up heat on ketchup
Table sauces are on the slide. The sector has put nearly £12m less through the tills in the past year, a 2.2% decline; condiments & pickles are also in bad shape, having lost 5.6%.
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Analysis and Features
Fresh soup simmers as cans go cold
Fresh has grown £5m as ambient has lost 8.2m
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Analysis and Features
Reformulation of the year: Cadbury
When Kraft bought Cadbury in 2012, chocolate fans feared the worst…
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Analysis and Features
Powerbrushes put the buzz into oral care
At last, reason to smile! “We’re on the verge of an oral care revolution…”
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Analysis and Features
Nut butter up as health nuts seek protein
The nation is going nuts. Sales of nut butters have soared in 2015
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News
Sweets dodge bullet in the war on sugar
One format has taken a hit from the checkout ban, however
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Analysis and Features
Losses widen for BSM as promos soar
Butters & spreads have had the eighth greatest loss of the year
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Analysis and Features
Giants clash as bottled water booms
The UK soft drinks sector is a land of giants
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Analysis and Features
Bitter winter brings boost for flu brand
Cold & flu medicine suppliers got their Scrooge-like wish in 2014/15
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Analysis and Features
Big cheese squeeze costs brands dear
Who’d be a branded cheese supplier? Combined branded volumes have inched up 0.8%, but it’s come at a price: value has sunk 1.6%, contributing £18.5m to the market’s £68.9m loss (the 10th biggest category decline of the year).
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Analysis and Features
Price cuts hit beer as cider sales go flat
It’s all gone pear shaped in cider. Once the category darling, cider shrunk by value and volume
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Analysis and Features
Sport brands beef up on protein boom
What’s big, bulging and increasingly in your face?
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Analysis and Features
Beard trend blunts razors and skincare
It’s perhaps no surprise that the rise of the beard is causing razor sales to lose their edge
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Analysis and Features
Britvic tops CCE in battle of soft drinks
In growth terms, Pepsi is once again top of the pops
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Analysis and Features
Branded NPD up as battery sales go flat
Battery sales through the grocers have run out of juice
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Analysis and Features
Dry shampoo cleans up in bad hair year
Batiste dry shampoo is now the UK’s fifth biggest shampoo brand
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Analysis and Features
Yoghurt goes au naturel in war on sugar
The backlash against sugar continues to bite in yoghurts & pot desserts
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Analysis and Features
Pizza adds some pizazz to frozen food
It’s looking frosty in the freezer aisles, with pizza the only sector in growth