All Confectionery articles – Page 113
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Haribo's kosher appeal
Ingredients specialist Forest Tree Foods is extending its range of Haribo-branded halal, kosher and vegetarian confectionery with a raft of new lines. Launching in mid-April, the products are the results of a joint...
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In Brief: Smooth operator; Easter initiative; Nescafe and music; Rizazz pizazz; Up to scratch
Imperial Tobacco UK has revealed a new cigarette box-style pack format for its loose tobacco brand Golden Virginia with two separate 7g 'bricks' of tobacco, which it claims offers retailers greater margins in the growing roll-your-own...
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Move over X Factor
Cadbury Trebor Bassett is launching its own talent search to coincide with the Creme Egg 'My Way' TV ad campaign. In association with TV presenter Kate Thornton, it is launching the Cadbury Creme Egg Podcast, which it claims is the...
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The Acid Test: Marvel Heroes Fruit Bars
Consumers and buyers give their views on the latest product launches..
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Wham gets new flavours
Wham Bar is set to make a bigger impact from next month with its first new variants. The bright pink sticky bar, loved by children for more than 20 years for its tongue-tingling effect, is being accompanied by five additional...
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Dairy Milk: 'first love' saga lasts a lifetime
Cadbury Trebor Bassett is showing its romantic side in a new Dairy Milk TV advertising campaign, which traces the history of two lovestruck teenagers from their first chance meeting on a school bus.The £5m 'First taste, first...
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Denyard’s sweet approach to benevolence
The Confectioners Benevolent Fund, which provides practical and financial support to more than 1,350 beneficiaries, has appointed Mike Denyard as its chairman.Until December 2004, Denyard was director of sales for Cadbury Trebor Bassett....
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Wrigley sees off gum tax
Plans for a 10% tax on chewing gum in Ireland to help fund the bill for cleaning discarded gum from streets have been dropped following lobbying by the manufacturers led by Wrigley.Instead, suppliers are to make a €2m annual contribution...
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Bursting out with gums
Burton’s Foods is stepping up its competition with rival Nestlé Rowntree with three sugar confectionery products targeting adults as well as children.For kids the company is launching Bursting Bottles and Little Squirts, developed using...
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Mentos set to shake it all up
Mentos, the world’s number two sweets brand, is hitting the UK this month with the aim of shaking up the stagnating sugar confectionery market.If successful, the chewy mint and fruit-flavoured sweets will become the first new name to enter the...
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Long chews from Haribo
Haribo hopes to get kids (and adults) flocking to their local shop for Pasta Basta, a foot-long chewy sweet aimed at pepping up the countline confectionery category.Designed to be displayed upright in colour-coded shelf-ready boxes, it is...
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Long chews from Haribo
Haribo hopes to get kids (and adults) flocking to their local shop for Pasta Basta, a foot-long chewy sweet aimed at pepping up the countline confectionery category.Designed to be displayed upright in colour-coded shelf-ready boxes, it is...
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Early Days
How is one of 2004’s top launches faring?Product:Aero BubblesCompany:Nestlé RowntreeLaunch date:April 2005Nestlé Rowntree took the bull by the horns this year when it...
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Time to Revel in Easter egg special
Masterfoods is not forgetting its old favourites by bringing out a luxury Revels Easter egg alongside a variant of its new Galaxy Promises brand. The company said Revels sales had doubled over the past five years, aided inpart by a recent...
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Huffer to take up senior post at Nestlé Rowntree
Nestlé Rowntree has appointed Matthew Huffer as head of its convenience channel.He joins Nestlé Rowntree from Burton’s Biscuits, where he was sales director. He takes up his new role in January 2006.Huffer had been sales director at...
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Pez is bent on Revenge
Star Wars characters Darth Vader, Chewbacca and R2-D2 are joining the Pez line-up to coincide with the release on DVD of the third instalment of George Lucas’s epic story, Revenge of the Sith
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Ethics, endurance and health
Natural Balance Foods is aiming to emulate the success of niche and ethical companies such as Innocent and Green and Black’s through the creation of two snack bar ranges that promote ethical causes.Trek is a protein-rich bar positioned as an...
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Outspoken White gone from Nestlé Rowntree
Chris White, MD of Nestlé Rowntree, has left the company by mutual agreement. The no-nonsense New Zealander was appointed two years ago. He was previously general manager for the Nestlé ice cream business unit within Nestlé Oceania.White made...
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White leaves Nestlé
Chris White, managing director of Nestlé Rowntree, has left the company by mutual agreement.White, who took up the role two years ago, will be replaced by Paul Grimwood, currently assistant to the head of Nestlé Zone Europe.Grimwood...
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Double chocolate chip off old block
Consumers will be seeing double when they purchase a kingsize Mars or Snickers bar in the new year, although they won’t be getting any more product for their money.As from January 2006, the chocolate bars will be sold in a two-piece format and...