All Chilled foods articles – Page 77
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Focus On Pies & Meat Snacks: Shoppers go pie-eyed
Pies are enjoying a second year of growth, driven by recession-induced nostalgia, clear ingredients labelling and heavy promotional activity. But is it sustainable in the long term? Nick Hughes and Alex Beckett report
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Focus On Pies & Meat Snacks: Four to watch
Tempted by the burgeoning on-the-go snacking market, Wall's broke with 200-year-old tradition and ventured beyond sausages for the first time in February, launching a range of sausage rolls, pasties and pies.
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Curry king spices up Indian meals with first branded range
Sir Gulam Noon is hoping to shake up the own-label dominated Indian ready meal market with his first branded range in partnership with Kerry Foods.
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Loyd Grossman eyes a piece of the action with new pizza offer
Premier Foods’ Loyd Grossman brand has made its chilled food debut with a new range of pizzas.
The range launched into Sainsbury’s this week in three flavours: Napoli salami, classic margherita and chicken arrabiata. Each pizza is priced… -
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Quality test: Own-label macaroni cheese
Anyone looking for a classic comfort eat as winter draws in knows the value of a good macaroni cheese. Unfortunately, the Asda meal wasn't good.
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Dickinson & Morris offers festive pies
Pork pie specialist Dickinson & Morris is launching a limited-edition Ultimate range to Tesco and Waitrose in time for Christmas. The Game Pie, an extra large authentic Melton Mowbray pork pie, and a cranberry-topped pork pie are...
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Focus On Pasta & Pasta Sauces: Dolmio leads in the advertising stakes
Sales of pasta and pasta sauces have thrived despite a significant dip in advertising spend. Mars cut its advertising budget for Dolmio almost in half, from £8.29m last year to £4.33m this year. However, Dolmio was still the most heavily advertised...
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Focus On Pasta & Pasta Sauces: Shoppers switching to ambient
The pasta market is worth £297.1m and has shot up 16.1% in value and 5% in volume. Much of the value growth has been driven by consumers paying more for their pasta, particularly dry pasta, which is up 23.8% in value and 5.5% in volume.
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Focus On Pasta & Pasta Sauces: Character pastas feel the pinch
Unless you are a three-year-old, you probably don't think about the Teletubbies too often. The psychedelic quartet have been a big name in the kids' pasta market, along with the likes of Scooby-Doo, Winnie the Pooh and SpongeBob SquarePants.
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Focus On Pasta & Pasta Sauces: Watching the pennes
Pasta is one of the great recession success stories. Volume sales have risen 5% year-on-year despite price rises driving the category's value up 16.1% [TNS 52w/e 9 August 2009]. And although there seems to have been some trading down a...
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Focus On Pasta & Pasta Sauces: Four to watch
Ex-England rugby skipper Lawrence Dallaglio teamed up with Sacla' in September to release a range of pasta sauces.
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Amy’s Kitchen adds touch of India to soups
California-based convenience brand Amy's Kitchen is adding an Indian Dal soup to its Waitrose range.Indian Dal Curried Lentil soup is made from a mixture of organic lentils and beans flavoured with a mild blend of spices and herbs (rsp:...
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Focus On Soup: Chilled soup steams ahead
Cheap, comforting, and with a hint of retro chic, 2009 should have been a bumper year for canned soup. And if not canned, then pouches, which are working well in other categories thanks to a modern, microwaveable and lightweight profile.
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Focus On Soup: Pots, not pouches, the packaging of choice
Pouches have enjoyed success in categories such as fish and petfood but so far they have failed to win over soup shoppers. They seem ideal with a long shelf life, protection from fluctuating tin plate costs and can be microwaved yet...
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Focus On Soup: Take-home Snapshot: Promos encourage switch to fresh
The total soup market is valued at £491.2m, an increase of £36.7m on 2008. This growth is largely down to price rises, with the average unit price increasing from 65p to 71p.
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Peter’s targets kids by spicing up slices
Peter's Foods has set its sights on the younger market with the launch of a new line of slices.The 185g slices, being launched into the Premier range, come in eight flavours including Spicy Chicken Fajita with Discovery seasoning, Ham...
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Tesco swaps Chinese range to Hom lines
Tesco has replaced its chilled own-label Chinese ready meals and side dishes with a new range, after securing an exclusive marketing agreement with TV chef Ken Hom.
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Pukka Pies upgrades to family size
Pukka Pies has launched its first family-size pies with the aim of becoming market leader in the family-size hot pie market.The 700g pies come in chicken and steak varieties (rsp: £3.89) and will be in Asda, Sainsbury's and Tesco from...
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Veg Pots inspire new premium stew range
The success of Innocent's Veg Pots is catching. Alan Rosenthal, former buyer for Spanish food supplier Brindisa, has created Stewed! a range of chilled exotic premium stews.The four-strong range of Stewed! products (rsp:...
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Tesco swaps Rustlers line-up for Feasters after range review
Tesco is to delist microwaveable snack brand Rustlers by the end of the month and replace it with its biggest rival Feasters.The retailer's decision to stop selling all hot snacking products manufactured by Kepak Convenience Foods,...