All Confectionery articles – Page 82
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NewsKraft creams Cadbury with chocolate cheese
Two years after controversially buying Cadbury, Kraft is taking Britain’s most famous chocolate brand in a new direction - by combining it with cheese.
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NewsDairy Milk postcards help sport fans cheer on Team GB
Cadbury Dairy Milk is giving consumers the opportunity to post a message to Britain’s Olympic athletes.
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Angry Birds to bring new player into UK confectionery market
Blockbuster video game Angry Birds is set to smash its way into the confectionery aisle of Britain’s supermarkets.
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It's good to be in the red with Rowntree's
Rowntree’s fans are being given the chance to win £10,000 if the sweets in their pack of Randoms or Pastilles are all red.
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NewsGlisten seeks share of bagged chocolate boom
Glisten is going head to head with Cadbury and Nestlé by expanding its Payne’s Poppets and Just Brazils into sharing pouch bags.
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NewsSwizzels turns up the love for Valentines
Swizzels Matlow makes 2.75 billion Love Hearts every year - and a fair few will be going into its first-ever limited-edition line.
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NewsComic actors invite public to vote for a new Kit Kat Chunky
Kit Kat is taking a leaf out of Walkers’ book by inviting fans to vote for a new permanent addition to the Chunky range.
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Category Report
ICE CREAM: A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an Enigma
The ice cream category has been a bit of an enigma this year. Or should that be an Enigma?
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NewsFruit drops added to Vimto confectionery
Vimto’s confectionery range has been expanded with the launch of fruit drops produced under licence by Newbridge Foods.
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NewsRetro ain’t what it used to be: Arctic Roll listings crash
Birds Eye Arctic Roll – whose relaunch came to symbolise the creditcrunch- inspired retro food craze – has fallen on hard times, with only one of the big four retailers still listing the ice-cream logs.
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Gü brings out the Christmas Baubles
Gü is getting into the Christmas spirit with a new bauble-inspired desserts range.
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Easter chocolate plans reveal novelty growth
Novelties and sharing bags play major roles in the big three confectioners’ plans for next Easter.
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Haribo’s Christmas range ‘biggest ever’
Haribo has unwrapped what it claims is its biggest-ever Christmas range in a bid to challenge the dominance of chocolate during the festive season.
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Premium gift NPD by Green & Black’s
Green & Black’s products have broken through the £10 price point for the first time in five years with a new gift range.
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ProfilesMy Alternative CV: Nicola Hainie, technical manager at Border Biscuits
Nicola Hainie, technical manager at Border Biscuits, on in-store sampling, deep fried Mars bars and Ace of Base
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NewsHolland & Barrett adds sweet sense of theatre to new store
Holland & Barrett is pushing further into traditional grocery categories with a trial of pick’n’mix and novel food dispensers at its largest-ever new store in Richmond. The 2,600 sq ft shop, which opened this week, features peanut…
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NewsChocolate countdown to birthdays
A British company has developed what it claims is the first seven-day chocolate calendar for counting down kids’ birthdays. Supermarket listings are being sought for The 7 Days To Go! calendar (rsp: £2.99), which contains seven pieces of…
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Weetabix woos kids with sci-fi adventure app
Weetabix has launched a new app to encourage kids to interact with their cereal packs at breakfast. Weetakid takes youngsters on a journey to another galaxy to help the Weetakid character rebuild his world.
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News‘Mindless munching’ sees sweet sales soar
Brits have munched their way through 120 million more boxes, bags and bars of sweets and chocolates in the past year. Supermarket sales of sweets soared almost 5% year-on-year to a whopping 2.9 billion packs, while the value of the market…
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NewsMaltesers to go Fairtrade next year
Mars is switching its Maltesers brand to Fairtrade chocolate from next year. The move will boost total sales of Fairtrade in the UK by around 10%, with Mars expecting to pay cocoa farmers another £900,000 a year on top of current prices.