All Crisps, nuts and snacks articles – Page 115
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Fogg travels on from pyramids
KP Snacks is abandoning is pyramid Phileas Fogg Tortilla Chip packaging to make it easier to merchandise. A 33% extra free promotion will run on the new rectangular packs until December in a bid to maximise Christmas sales. Available in Nacho...
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Drums are banged
KP Snacks has given its Mini Cheddars and Mini Garlic Baguettes drums a facelift to promote consumer trial. It plans to maximise sales over the Christmas peak with the second redesign of the packs this year. The new look Cheddars and Baguettes...
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Retail spotlight: Tesco in Budapest
Eastward Ho! East meets West in the brands that can be found on Tesco shelves in Budapest, and the locals love it. Clive Beddall reports from the Hungarian capital The scene's familiar, but the location is not. It's 11am on a crisp autumn...
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NET SWAPPING WITH WOTSITS
Golden Wonder is hooking up with kids' web site SwapitShop.com in a new promotion for Wotsits. SwapitShop has been set up to allow children to swap their unwanted toys and games over the internet. The promotion will run for six weeks, supported by...
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The Grocer Guide to Snacks (an advertising supplement)
KP Snacks: Social snacking drives the vision KP Foods Waterman's Business Park The Causeway Staines Middlesex TW18 3BA Tel: 01784 447744 Web site: www.unitedbiscuits.co.uk Key contactS Managing director Will Carter Sales director ...
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The Grocer Guide to Snacks (an advertising supplement)
KP Nuts: Just nuts about Christmas time KP Nuts Chesterton Road Eastwood Trading Estate Rotherham South Yorkshire S65 1TD Tel: 01709 828101 Fax: 01709 828508 Key contactS General manager Andy Rush Sales controller Duncan Hill...
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The Grocer focus on confectionery
Popcorn: hoping for an explosion Ideas are emerging to take consumption of one of America's favourite snacks from the silver screen to the small screen. Sheila Eggleston reports Unlike the US where the popcorn market is enormous, the jury is...
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Wotsits turn into potato
Golden Wonder’s Wotsits Mealtime Potato Shapes its first non-bagged snack launch for 30 years brings the kids’ brand head to head with KP Hula Hoops in the frozen potato products market. The cheese flavoured, foil packed, mainmeal…
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The Grocer focus on Scotland:
Bakery: hard selling the family tartan There's no resting on laurels for Walkers or Tunnocks as Karen Dempsey discovers The Scots are renowned for having a sweet tooth and they are also getting cannier at encouraging the rest of the world to...
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Obituary: Colin Brook
Colin Brook, chairman of Seabrook Potato crisps, has died from cancer. He was 74. Brook, who friends described as a workaholic', started making crisps after the war at the family's chip shop in Bradford. Within a few years the doorstep delivery...
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Partners in time: The past is the future
Tradition and continuity are obsessions with the siblings who run Walkers Shortbread. Belinda Gannaway met them There are family businesses, and there are family businesses.Some 102 years under three generations of the same family undoubtedly...
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Waitrose@work: Big brand sites link
Waitrose's shopping-from-the-office arm Waitrose@work has signed up big brands BP Amoco, Walkers Snack Foods, Heinz and Sara Lee. The new partners will advertise waitrose@work on their intranet sites as a timesaving employee benefit. The Waitrose...
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Popcorn: not the only big deal'
Sir; I was interested to read the letter Popcorn prices not a big deal' by James Peterson, Nottinghamshire (Letters, July 22). In response, we are a dedicated popcorn manufacturer but I was never suggesting that bringing popcorn prices down would...
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Walkers comes to the crunch over Tayto's rival Munch
Just months after Walkers entered the Irish Republic, it has been caught up in a legal wrangle with its indigenous competitor Tayto over a brand name. Walkers is taking legal action over Tayto's use of the name Mighty Munch which it objects...
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Real Crisps alive and well and on sale in Welsh supermarke
Sir; Your News in Brief column in the July 22 issue carried an item stating that the Real Crisps Co has gone into liquidation'. In fact The Real Crisps Co is alive and well and trading very successfully. Our products are stocked by the Welsh...
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Popcorn could be sold cheaper
Sir; Does The Grocer have any idea if our industry really does want to cooperate with the government in bringing the cost of food down to the consumer? Let me explain. We think we produce the best popcorn in the UK today. I have been in the...
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Pepsico wants Golden Wonder
PepsiCo, owner of Walker's Crisps, is believed to be trying to buy Golden Wonder. The crisp and snack manufacturer has been put up for sale by Legal and General Ventures and industry sources have said the price may be as high as £100m. L&G md...
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Elizabeth Shaw set to indulge in ads
The Elizabeth Shaw Company will be breathing new life into its 99 year old mint crisp this Christmas, with the brand's first major advertising campaign for five years. The ads, which break in consumer glossies in October, November and December,...
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Kissing gateway to starry prize
Walkers is launching a gamecard promotion for tortilla chip brand Doritos as part of its £6m evening snacking programme. The Big Screen Kiss is an instant win in-pack promotion consisting of a heat sensitive gamecard that invites consumers to kiss...
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Tasting panel: Aspall Dry Suffolk Cyder
THE EXPERT Arabella Woodrow Master of Wine and wine buyer for Forth Wine This is an attractive pale colour with a nice mousse. In the glass it has a crisp juicy appley nose which is quite aromatic and enticing. The taste is extremely pleasant....