Laura Evans
Laura is acting special reports editor, handling weekly Focus On reports and annual rankings including Britain's 100 Biggest Brands and the 2012 Top Products Survey.
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Category ReportSoup: Own label on top as soup war heats up
The big story in soup this year has been the battle of the brands versus own label…
Category ReportTable sauces - Some like it hot, but sales run a tad cold
Britain, it seems, is well and truly off the sauce…
Category ReportRice, pasta & noodles - Pot snacks give brands instant win
On most people’s lists of cheap, filling foodstuffs, rice, pasta and noodles would probably feature…
Category ReportOils: Oils struggle to kick deal dependency
It’s hard to think of a more commoditised market than oils – and for yet another year the category has suffered…
Category ReportLaundry: New formats winning out once again
After a blip last year, when consumers’ long-term migration to gels and liquids was suspended…
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James & spreads: Jams stuck in reverse as spreads shine
Fewer and fewer consumers, it seems, want jam today…
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Cereals: Pot of gold? It's all about the deskfast
With more and more breakfasts eaten at work or even in transit…
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Cakes: Cake brands fail to rise to the occasion
Another year, another slightly stale performance in the cakes sector…
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Bread: Sliced sales suffer as new formats fly
Daily bread? Not so much. As the long-term fall in consumption continues, there’s no relief for sliced loaves…
Analysis & FeaturesA great year for sport. A washout for grocery...
Exhilarating highs. Crashing lows. With the Jubilee and Olympics on the cards, everyone expected 2012 to be a year of extremes…
NewsBig brands feel the pinch as shoppers buy fewer staples
Shoppers are cutting back on staple products, including bread, tea, fruit juice, cheese, pasta and breakfast cereals…
NewsYe Olde Oak to rival Peperami with peperoni snack line
Ye Olde Oak will go head-to-head with Peperami next year when it rolls out a snacking peperoni….
NewsTesco axes New Covent Garden soups
New Covent Garden Soup Co has been delisted by Tesco – a year after the retailer launched its own chilled soup brand.
Analysis & FeaturesWhat's new in the global food marketplace? The sights at Sial
Sial 2012 took place in Paris this week. Here’s our pick of the most interesting products and stands.
- Comment & Opinion
Turning up the Turbo Tango
You couldn’t ask for a better demonstration of Turbo Tango’s USP.
NewsBreakfast biscuits higher in satfat than a Hobnob
Breakfast biscuits contain more saturated fat - and less fibre - than McVitie’s Hobnobs, research by The Grocer has revealed.
NewsUK biscuit brands feel full force of economic crunch
Sales of 14 of the UK’s top 20 biscuit brands - including Hobnobs, Jaffa Cakes and Kit Kat - have dipped as shoppers trade down to own label and retailers pull back on multibuys.
NewsHP, Branston and Lea & Perrins down as Brits go off the sauce
Traditional sauces and condiments are failing to cut the mustard with today’s shoppers - plunging eight of the top 10 brands into decline.
- Rankings
91-100: Britain's Biggest Alcohol Brands 2012
Some of Carlsberg’s brands are struggling, but the same can’t be said of Holsten…
Category ReportTilda doubles deals to bump Uncle Ben's down to second spot
Across the big five, the number of featured space promotions in the rice and noodles category has not significantly…