All Confectionery articles – Page 8
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Analysis & Features
Can One Good Thing’s wrapper-free snack bars succeed?
One Good Thing hopes to win over shoppers with its new innovation
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News
KTC launches new sustainable palm oil range
The range will initially include Planet Palm Oil as well as three specialist bakery products
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Category Report
Why protein brands are chasing midlifers
Functional health brands, including Davina McCall’s new protein supplements, are racing to enlist middle-aged consumers. But how much of an appetite do midlifers have for protein?
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Range Preview
Hallowieners and ghost crumpets: what’s new for Halloween 2023?
Colin the Caterpillar goes sour and bakery gets a pumpkin makeover: see the new food & drink for Halloween 2023
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News
Tony’s Chocolonely and Aldi pledge to increase pay for cocoa farmers
Cocoa buyers including Tony’s, Aldi and Ben & Jerry’s have committed to upping pay for farmers in Ghana and Ivory Coast
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News
Empire Bespoke Foods secures Sainsbury’s listing for Mike & Ike
The brand has been steadily growing its distribution in convenience stores and specialist retailers over recent months
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News
City snapshot: Hotel Chocolat back on the front foot after year of losses
Hotel Chocolat’s boss said the high-end confectionery chain is back “on the front foot” as it rolls out its new experience-led store format. It comes after a year of losses as the group restructured its international business.
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KVI Tracker
Poor Turkish hazelnut supply threatens Nutella prices
Hazelnut stock prices soared more than 40% in the eight weeks to 27 September to $780/100kg, Mintec data showed.
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News
British artisan food producers to get easier access to US markets
A new shipping route is opening doors for small businesses wanting to trade with the US
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News
Nestle accused of ‘falling short’ on HFSS pledges
Nestlé aims to grow the sales of its more nutritious products by 50% by 2030 compared to 2022 sales under its ‘Good food, Good life’ banner
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News
Chocolatier Montezuma’s makes biscuits debut with Mini Cookies duo
It is the first launch for the brand since being rescued from administration in the summer.
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Analysis & Features
One year on: Have HFSS rules made any difference?
It’s been a year since the government brought in display restrictions on HFSS products. Now the sales data is in. So what has been the impact, and how uniform is compliance among retailers?
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Videos
Category briefing: Grenade on healthier snacking and protein bars
With so much opportunity within the protein bar category, Grenade’s head of grocery Rachel Austerberry shares how retailers can capitalise on this exciting growth
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Range Preview
Apple pie flavoured hot chocolate in Hotel Chocolat’s Christmas range 2023
Enjoy a death by chocolate this Christmas with the new Hotel Chocolat range
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Range Preview
Collapsed Colin and expansions to Best Ever in M&S Christmas range 2023
Marks & Spencer’s Christmas 2023 range is here, featuring a deconstructed Colin the Caterpillar
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News
Biscoff takes lead in Lotus Bakeries rebrand
Consumers were already referring to its biscuits as simply ‘Biscoff’, Lotus Bakeries said
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Analysis & Features
The UK’s 10 favourite chocolate brands 2023
All but one of the top 10 chocolate brands – Lindor – has grown value
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Analysis & Features
Confectionery’s creative challenge: selling old sweets to gen Z
We’ve set agencies the ultimate challenge: give humbugs, candy jewellery and fizzy UFOs a 21st century makeover
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Analysis & Features
10 charts explaining UK attitudes to sweets and confectionery
Need proof that sweets make people happy? Here it is: more people buy candy to boost their mood than for any other reason, according to our poll of 1,000 shoppers about their attitudes to sweets. And most people will purchase them every week
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Analysis & Features
The UK’s 10 most popular sweets brands 2023
Rowntree’s has overtaken Maynards Bassetts to be the UK’s second biggest candy brand