All Confectionery articles – Page 103
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Company Profile More Food
When Caron Howe started baking cakes at her small family-run coffee shop in Chichester in 1992, she could never have known that 14 years later her culinary skills would have snowballed into a £1m-a-year business. Having noted the local...
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After Eights move away from the dinner table
Nestlé Rowntree is pushing its After Eight chocolates into the countline category for the first time in a bid to introduce the brand to a younger generation of consumers. Packs of bite-sized dark chocolates with a mint fondant centre, in...
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World News - 14th October 2006
United States. Former president Bill Clinton has brokered a deal with industry to crack down on junk food sold in US schools. Under the agreement with Kraft Foods, Mars, Campbell Soup, Groupe Danone and PepsiCo, guideline levels...
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Fox's campaign is a 'little less ordinary'
Fox's is shouting about the effort and high-quality ingredients that go into its biscuits in a £1.3m advertising campaign aimed at refreshing the brand. Based on the strapline, 'a little less ordinary, a little more Fox's', a month of...
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Cadbury aims to crack luxury eggs for Easter
Cadbury Trebor Bassett has shrugged off the bruises of this summer's salmonella scare-induced product recall to announce its Easter range and is calling on stores to swap Easter egg price deals for premium offerings, claiming that the former do...
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Board games add chocolate versions
Board game fans are used to Monopoly money, but now they can trade in pieces of chocolate instead. Three of the most popular board games in the UK - Scrabble, Trivial Pursuit and Monopoly - have been transformed into edible chocolate...
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Mars man for Thorntons
Senior Mars executive Mike Davies has been appointed chief executive officer of specialist chocolate retailer Thorntons.Davies, who took up his new role yesterday, replaces Peter Burdon who resigned as CEO last week.He has worked for...
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Soundbites
?"The major issue is that there is increasing interest from consumers and retailers as to the integrity of ingredients. We are seeing consumers becoming really interested ?in what they are eating." Mark Palmer Marketing...
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Soundbites
"The UK confectionery market is both mature and sophisticated and, in such an environment, developing truly innovative ideas is a challenge. It requires companies to invest in both time and resources to do so. Making a success of innovation is...
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Research Notes
The UK confectionery market is worth £4.08bn, but is flat at 0.2% growth. Although ?45 million British individuals have bought confectionery in the latest year this has fallen by 0.8% (372,256 individuals). On average, shoppers are...
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Merchandising
You only need to look at what happened to Masterfoods last year to recognise the importance of effective merchandising?. The confectionery giant believes sales of its Celebrations were down £5.2m in the final four weeks of the...
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Less sugar but still as sweet
With manufacturers claiming the overall sugar confectionery market is static at best, they have spent the year concentrating on ways to re-engage with consumers. And the consensus on how to achieve this has been to remove some of the guilt...
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The season to be generous
Spurred on by last year's success in driving up value during the heavily discounted Christmas and Easter periods, companies have once again been busy developing products that can command higher prices and won't fall victim to deals from the...
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What should Scooby fear?
The character licensing market could be facing tough times if threats of advertising restrictions become a reality. Having opposed Ofcom's three proposals on advertising to children, which are all based around time restrictions on...
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Trends & Developments
?Small is beautiful - at least, that's what Green & Black's is hoping for with its latest venture, a boxed set of miniature versions of its chocolate bars. Available from major supermarkets and department stores, the Miniatures Collection...
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Keeping consumers sweet
Confectionery hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons when 'that' salmonella story, about the contamination of a certain purple-coloured brand, broke in July. Headlines screamed of meltdown at the company with some newspapers relating the...
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CONSUMER FEEDBACK
Subtle changes are slowly influencing and reshaping the countline confectionery market. As competition intensifies from the expanding range of cereal bars and other healthy alternatives, countlines have become more indulgent, offering an...
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CONSUMER FEEDBACK
The confectionery category is increasingly dominated by innovations in boxed and tub formats, with consumers adopting modestly priced packs of favourite chocolates repackaged and presented in a different guise.Many top brands have been...