Features, reports and analysis – Page 10
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Analysis & Features
The fastest-growing products and categories during the pandemic: Top Products 2020
Our list shows how grocery in 2020 has enjoyed some, quite literally, meaty sales
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Reports
Soft drinks: juices & smoothies: Top Products 2020
The category has suffered 2020’s fourth-biggest decline by absolute value: £50.2m
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Reports
Confectionery: Chocolate: Top Products 2020
In contrast to last year’s sweet performance, this year’s sales are likely to leave a bitter taste in the mouths of suppliers
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Analysis & Features
The fastest falling products and categories during the pandemic: Top Products 2020
The products and categories in this list illustrate how damaging lockdowns have been to products that rely on people getting out and about
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Reports
Bakery & Bread: Top Products 2020
Housebound Brits have been making butties by the shedload in 2020
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Reports
Canned goods: Top Products 2020
Panicked shoppers swept up so much canned food pre-lockdown that availability stood at just 19% by 15 March
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Reports
Alcohol: Beer & cider: Top Products 2020
Stella and other big-name lagers are some of the highest-grossing brands in this entire Top Products report
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Reports
Soft drinks: carbonates & energy drinks: Top Products report 2020
Large multipacks of cola and lemonade sold well this year as Brits sought mixers for at-home drinking occasions
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Reports
Frozen food: Top Products report 2020
Shoppers have sought to recreate their favourite pub and restaurant grub at home this year, and frozen has benefited
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Reports
Dairy: butters & spreads: Can butter keep its gloss next year?
Can butters, spreads and margarine expect another golden year in 2021? Or are hopes for further growth likely to melt away?
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Reports
Household: cleaning: Top Products 2020
An extra 49 million packs of surface care products went through the tills this year
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Reports
Baby & infant products: Top Products report 2020
Big brands are losing shelf space as grocers focus on their own ranges and challenger brands
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Reports
Sauces: cooking: Top Products 2020
The change in power dynamic comes after an extra £158.8m poured into cooking sauces
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Analysis & Features
Top Products Survey 2020: How Food Came Home
We teamed up with Nielsen to review the performance of the leading brands, and own label, in 108 categories, from alcoholic drinks to tobacco, via condoms, bleach, ready meals and, of course, toilet paper
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Reports
Household: laundry: Top Products 2020
The increase in home working has been the most significant blow to the category
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Reports
Soft drinks: bottled water, squashes & cordials: Top Products report 2020
Bottled water has lost £148.5m this year as on-the-go sales dried up
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Analysis & Features
Brexit: Three ways an EU trade deal could make all the difference for food and drink
Many changes are locked in, but key issues remain at stake
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My Food & Drink Job
My food & drink job: Dalton Fox, apprentice electronics engineer, SNB
Dalton fixes machinery for a range of food & drink businesses, from start-ups to national manufacturers
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The Big Interview
Chris Tyas big interview: the man heading up food’s ‘war room’
How has the Nestlé veteran kept things running smoothly, especially as Brexit also looms large?
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Analysis & Features
How Ronald Kers has driven recovery at 2 Sisters
Kers has worked with 2 Sisters founder Ranjit Singh to turn the processor’s fortunes around and create ‘the leading poultry-plus business’