All Ambient articles – Page 110

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    Campaign calls for fruit for cooking' fixture

    2000-02-19T00:00:00Z

    Bramley apple growers want multiples to reposition their fruit in produce departments away from varieties such as Granny Smith

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    Heinz targets functional and organics

    2000-02-19T00:00:00Z

    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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    Kids in shape

    2000-02-12T00:00:00Z

    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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    suppliers

    2000-01-29T00:00:00Z

    Pledge to Mitsubishi of huge growth in turnover Princes set for new takeovers Exclusive Clive Beddall Princes Foods, which has doubled its foodservice business by buying rival canned goods group Oxbridge Foods, is staying on the acquisition...

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    The total value of the canned goods market has risen 1% to £

    2000-01-22T00:00:00Z

    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 £

    2000-01-22T00:00:00Z

    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 £

    2000-01-22T00:00:00Z

    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 £

    2000-01-22T00:00:00Z

    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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    Top 10 Soup brands

    2000-01-22T00:00:00Z

    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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    pack attacks: the latest innovation

    2000-01-22T00:00:00Z

    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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    Cheap headline prices for own label canned goods have been

    2000-01-22T00:00:00Z

    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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    hot ideas for cans

    2000-01-22T00:00:00Z

    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...