All Crisps, nuts and snacks articles – Page 89
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Quality Test: Ginger nuts biscuits, own-label, 300g
Like custard creams and rich tea, the ginger nut is a British institution - albeit one better upheld by some retailers than others.
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Grocer 33: Basketful of banter puts Tesco on top
Tesco was the only store to offer a full basket this week, and our shopper was impressed by the "very willing" assistant who joked and chatted while leading her to the crisps and chicken steaks.
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NewsAcid Test: Pearwood Cider
I found this a decent alternative, giving a crisp taste and fruity aroma. It is light in colour and well packaged but it has a distinct, lingering aftertaste that some may find overpowering...
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Eat Natural offsets soaring costs with flourishing exports
Eat Natural has offset "dramatic" cost hikes in nuts and fruit with increased export sales to Europe, as it launches new cereal bar and muesli products to the market.
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NewsEditor's Comment: Warburtons entry into bagged snacks is bizarre - and I like it
Warburtons? Making crisps? Now that's what you call a brand extension and a half. Yet you can see why. Exactly a year since Walkers launched Red Sky, sales of the premium potato chips have come from nowhere to challenge established players...
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Warburtons muscles in on bagged snacks
Warburtons is set to shake up the bagged snacks sector with one of the most unexpected launches of recent years, The Grocer can exclusively reveal.
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Ad of the Week: Provender’s Borat spoof is late but not Lazy
Squirrels have a top velocity of 12mph. Even the red ones, despite their aerodynamic flared ears and insatiable avarice for nuts. In fact, the only ones that go faster are dead ones, falling vertically out of trees.
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Yellow Tail launches a Crisp Chardonnay
Australian wine brand Yellow Tail is introducing a new Chardonnay and a range of reserve wines this spring to build on its meteoric rise from a £4.9m to a £20.1m brand over the past two years [Nielsen].Yellow Tail Crisp Chardonnay will...
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Ad of the Week: Walkers look good naked thanks to virginal Lineker
Gary Lineker does not have sex. And that’s that, OK? Despite the fact that he recently married a lingerie model…
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Monster fan lives the brand
Elsewhere in the world of puzzling endorsements, a Leicestershire man has changed his name. To Mr Monster Munch.The former Chris Hunt is not even on the payroll he's doing it purely for love."I used to eat three bags of...
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NewsWalkers highlights sub 99-calorie lines
Walkers is highlighting the 99-or-less calorie count of its Quavers, Wotsits, French Fries and Squares brands on front of pack.
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Barratt to bring out Lovely alternative to Cadbury Mini Eggs
Cadbury Mini Eggs face new competition in the sugar-coated chocolate egg category in the form of Lovely Mini Eggs by Sherbet Fountain maker Barratt.The eggs, which like Cadbury Mini Eggs are made from solid milk chocolate with a crisp...
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Meat snacks muscle in as alternative to crisps
The nation's lust for chewy meat has helped sales of meat snacks to boom over the past year. Figures from TNS reveal that sales of meat snacks are up 24.3% in value and 34.9% in volume, as the category wins over consumers looking for an...
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My Alternative CV: Simon Turrell, Matthew Walker's Christmas pudding expert
Simon Turrell, Matthew Walker's Christmas pudding expert, on Batman, Dawn French and fly fishing
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Focus On Pies & Meat Snacks: Meat snacks show meteoric growth
The total meat snacks market is worth £65.7m in the latest year, up 24.3% or £12.8m on 2008. The growth is largely down to new shoppers coming into the market, with about 30% of the UK population buying meat snacks at least once in the last year.
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NewsTax on dried fruit snacks ‘signals VAT on health food’
Tax levies on 100% fruit snacks could be the start of a push by the government to begin charging VAT on healthy foods that were previously exempt, the National Dried Fruit Association warned this week.
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Esom adds third board to his CV
Steven Esom has joined the board at Cranswick as a non-executive director.The former Waitrose MD also holds non-exec roles at Carphone Warehouse and Tyrrells. He is also a partner at Langholm Capital, a position he took up in July, a...
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Burts: It's in the bag
Turnover has nearly doubled at premium crisps maker Burts this year, thanks in no small part to a thriving export market. Alex Beckett reports
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Ben & Jerry’s goes nuts for new flavour
The winner of Do The World A Flavour, Ben & Jerry's search for a new ice cream, will go on sale next March. Created by American Toni Gunnison, competition winner Fairly Nuts is a caramel ice cream with a caramel swirl and praline...