All analysis & features articles – Page 245
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Analysis & FeaturesBatteries: challengers surge in flat sector
Duracell’s pink fluffy rabbit is probably not a very happy bunny at present…
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Analysis & FeaturesCakes: Brands need to get back to a basic recipe
Snacking is seen as an important source of growth for the cake market – but the trend has also contributed to its decline …
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Analysis & FeaturesDairy drinks: all churned up in the milk sector
More than £100m wiped off the own-label milk market and a non-dairy brand now the third-biggest milk brand…
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Analysis & FeaturesOils: feeling the heat on price as Aldi and Lidl win sales
Talk about a double whammy. With olive oil brands under mounting pressure to promote harder as the supermarkets…
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Analysis & FeaturesFresh meat & fish: Aldi & Lidl making mincemeat of competition
The discounters have made a major play for meat and poultry over the past year – with Aldi’s stunt…
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Analysis & FeaturesCheese: brands faced challenges in the aisles
Cheese is a tough place for brands right now. As the discounters expand into the sector, price is taking centre stage…
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Analysis & FeaturesBaby infant products: health advice hits UK babyfood market
Sugar hit the headlines in 2014 for all the wrong reasons. Baby juice took a direct hit as a result…
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Analysis & FeaturesBread: Warburtons loses £54m as Brits ditch it
Brits have bought the equivalent of 93 million fewer loaves of bread in the past 12 months…
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Analysis & FeaturesTop campaigns 2014: how to get ahead in fmcg advertising
When advertising in the ultra-competitive grocery sector, the growing importance of digital – and the growing expectations…
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Analysis & FeaturesTop Products Survey 2014: Total War
The price war has gone nuclear. Morrisons dropped the bomb in March, issuing the mother of all profit warnings as it slash…
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Analysis & FeaturesFood prices in the mults fall for seventh month in a row
The UK’s supermarkets are heading into the vital Christmas period with food price inflation remaining at historic lows…
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Analysis & FeaturesFood and drink SMEs to step up M&A activity in 2015
A new year and a new start is almost upon us, bringing with it that annual sense of optimism which makes us resolve to go to the gym more, eat more fruit and veg, quit smoking and cut down on alcohol.
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Analysis & FeaturesFree-from: hitting the big time as sales boom to half a billion
Free from has come of age, blasting through the £500m barrier for the first time, in 2014…
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Analysis & FeaturesAlcohol: Prosecco tops an uplifting year for alcoholic drinks
Heroes emerge from the unlikeliest of places at times of war. In the price war, they’ve stepped out of the booze aisles…
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Analysis & FeaturesSports nutrition: market bulked up by smaller impulse lines
Supermarkets are in dire need of a shot in the arm. But there’s one sector in which they’re looking rather ripped…
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Analysis & FeaturesIs the budget end of the grocery market slowing down?
A lot has been made of the “free ride” the mainstream supermarkets have given the discounters over recent months, but today’s Kantar Worldpanel data seems to point to tougher conditions at the value end of the market.
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Analysis & FeaturesPastygate seems a long time ago for booming Greggs
As turnaround years go, they rarely come much better than 2014 has proved for Greggs.
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Analysis & FeaturesSoft drinks: war on sugar sours juice sector sales
If you’re looking for a casualty from the war on sugar, you’ve found it. While carbonates, energy drinks and sweets escaped relatively lightly, juices & smoothies have been hammered. Value has slumped £69.4m (3.5%) on volumes down 6.5%, with own label’s long-term decline gathering pace to nearly double the rate ...
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Analysis & FeaturesTop launch: Super Smoothies by Innocent
Innocent has big ambitions for the functional fruit & veg drinks it launched in March – setting out a two-year sales target of £30m. There’s no denying Super Smoothies is a compelling proposition – combining the strength of the Innocent brand with good-looking products featuring fruit, vitamins and ingredients ...
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Analysis & FeaturesMarket caution over Sainsbury's takeover rumours is understandable
One of the market’s unwritten rules is that any company subject to takeover rumours will get a nice share price boost.