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Heinz bids for cooler image with new look Salad Cream
Exclusive Karen Dempsey Heinz is dolloping £10m into a major campaign to relaunch its Salad Cream six months after threatening to dump it. As well as reassuring those who protested about the potential loss when the story broke last October,...
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Nine lives may be all used up for Heinz petfood arm
Heinz's petfood business may be sold off to make room for the company's increasing investment in prepared foods. The US company said its petfood business, which includes the 9-Lives brand, had been losing market share and sales were down due to...
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Michele Vincent
Marketing director Princes Group retail foods division The beer industry gave Vincent a grounding in the fmcg world with Scottish & Newcastle and Allied Breweries (as was), and as trade marketing director of Matthew Brown plc (part of Scottish...
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Partners in ketchup
Heinz has joined forces with Nutri Asia, the Philippines main manufacturer of ketchup products. The new company, called Heinz UFC Philippines, will give Heinz a significant presence in the "well developed" Asian ketchup market. President and ceo...
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Heinz targets functional and organics
Heinz is so keen to grow its presence in organic and functional foods it has restructured its core businesses. It has set up a new category, to run parallel to its other core areas, that will focus on organic and functional foods, which it sees as...
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Campaign calls for fruit for cooking' fixture
Bramley apple growers want multiples to reposition their fruit in produce departments away from varieties such as Granny Smith
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SALAD DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN?
There's further evidence Heinz is rethinking its strategy for Salad Cream with the promotion of Clodagh Ward to mastermind a heavyweight investment programme in the product. As general manager for condiment sauces, Ward will also look after a...
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Kids in shape
Heinz is capitalising on the popularity of BBC TV's kids programme Tweenies with the launch of Heinz Tweenies Pasta Shapes. Each can (205g and 400g) will contain seven shapes corresponding with the characters in the successor to the Teletubbies....
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hot ideas for cans
Fish and meat have benefited from fresh thinking in product and packaging development. A good example is the microwaveable can, developed by International Fish Canners from an earlier project with John West. The 200g cans of tuna lasagne and tuna...
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Cheap headline prices for own label canned goods have been
In canned fruit, for example, both Asda and Tesco have seen 12% and 9% falls respectively in their year on year sales figures for own label canned fruit, despite continuous low retail prices on the value ranges. Del Monte, with an 18% share of the...
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pack attacks: the latest innovation
The launch of chilled soups might at first seem bad news for cans but, as Heinz points out, they have helped spice up interest in the entire sector S itting between a snack, a meal and an ingredient, soup has been a regular testing ground for new...
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Top 10 Soup brands
1. Heinz standard 2. Campbell's standard 3. Heinz Big 4. Baxters Tartan 5. Weight Watchers 6. Heinz Wholesoup 7. Campbell's ...
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The total value of the canned goods market has risen 1% to £
Vegetables The market for canned vegetables is declining by 1%. Within the sector, baked beans now hold a 44% share of expenditure. Another subsector which has shown growth but from a much smaller base is mushy peas, with a 2.9% share and...
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The total value of the canned goods market has risen 1% to £
Vegetables The market for canned vegetables is declining by 1%. Within the sector, baked beans now hold a 44% share of expenditure. Another subsector which has shown growth but from a much smaller base is mushy peas, with a 2.9% share and...
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The total value of the canned goods market has risen 1% to £
Vegetables The market for canned vegetables is declining by 1%. Within the sector, baked beans now hold a 44% share of expenditure. Another subsector which has shown growth but from a much smaller base is mushy peas, with a 2.9% share and...
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The total value of the canned goods market has risen 1% to £
Vegetables The market for canned vegetables is declining by 1%. Within the sector, baked beans now hold a 44% share of expenditure. Another subsector which has shown growth but from a much smaller base is mushy peas, with a 2.9% share and...