All The Grocer articles in 26 March 2016
Previous issues.
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Analysis and Features
Cooked meats: awaking a sleeping giant
Consumers bored by identikit own label are hungry for quality, authenticity and the lick of flame
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Analysis and Features
Has the great sugar cull been enough to rescue kids drinks?
Last year Tesco delisted a raft of added-sugar kids’ fruit juice drinks. So what impact has this had on sales?
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Analysis and Features
Pepsi Max Cherry sweetens sales in sugar-battered market
No sugar Pepsi Max delivers 12.4% growth for Britvic as rival Coke’s sales go flat
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Analysis and Features
Coke splashes the cash as ad spend soars to £30m
Soft drinks brands are pouring money into traditional advertising with spend up 51.4%
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Analysis and Features
Bottled water continues to boom as drinkers go posh
Bottled water sales are overflowing with all top 10 plain water brands in value and volume growth. So will Osborne’s sugar tax further whet consumers’ appetite for the natural stuff?
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Feature Synopsis
Focus On Bread & Baked Goods: 7 May
Brits have spent less on wrapped bread in the past year as prices are slashed and bread continues to fall from favour. Yet some parts of the wider bread and baked goods market are in growth. How come?
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Analysis and Features
The EU: the good, the bad and the bendy
What did the EU ever do for us? We assess some of the key pieces of legislation affecting grocery over the last 50 years
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Comment and Opinion
We're already below the sugar tax threshold
Like many drinks producers, we have been following developments regarding the proposed sugar tax with great interest
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Category Report
Barbecue Report 2016
With such lousy summers, barbecues are being washed away. So can a summer of sport finally offer retailers sunshine?
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Analysis and Features
Soft drinks left carrying the can with sugar levy
With 54% of soft drink SKUs set to be subject to the sugar levy how will suppliers respond?
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Analysis and Features
Lamb prices pick up for an early Easter
After falling to such low levels they sparked protests last year, UK lamb prices have increased in the run up to Easter
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News
Step Up for Britain issues national living wage reminder
Almost a third of lowest-paid staff never check their payslips
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Comment and Opinion
London is expensive but it's the best place for our brand
The big development this month is that I am writing this sitting at my own desk, looking across at our kitchen
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Analysis and Features
Marketing to mums in 2016
Patronising stereotypes may persist but there is growing momentum to address the subtler realities of being a new parent
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Comment and Opinion
Premier Foods is smart to think twice about McCormick offer
You might expect news of an approach from an international food giant to be welcomed by Premier Foods’ board
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News
Convenience Retail Awards 2016
The Convenience Retail Awards 2016, organised by The Grocer’s sister title Convenience Store, celebrated sector heroes
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Analysis and Features
Break silence on food crime, industry told
Not enough intelligence sharing, warns National Food Crime Unit
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Comment and Opinion
How food tech is creating a revolution
Some people worried the digital age would usher in a race to the bottom in food
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Comment and Opinion
Make apps pull their weight
I would place a brand’s apps or websites in the ‘owned property’ category
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Comment and Opinion
National Food Crime Unit must be unleashed from the FSA
The FSA felt like an organisation re-energised and plucky enough even to mention the ‘N’ word - nutrition - again