All Fresh produce articles – Page 203
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Bites: Procter & Gamble; Doves Farm
Procter & Gamble has launched Thermacare therapeutic heatpads and Fit fruit and vegetable wash in the US this month.
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Bites: Birds Eye; Robinsons; HL Foods
Birds Eye Wall's frozen potato products are getting a new look, including foil packaging for Fritters and Alphabites, as well as a £3.75m support package this year.
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Bites: Whole Earth Foods; SmithKline Beecham; Budgens; Kettle Chips
EU regulations forbid Whole Earth Foods to call its new range of Organic Pure Fruit Spreads in six flavours jams' as they are sweetened with fruit juice rather than sugar. SmithKline Beecham is adding an Aquafresh Max Active chunky-handled...
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Bananas: Focus special
Bananas, the UK's most popular fruit, are estimated to be worth at least £600m in sales this year. That represents around 725,000 tonnes, according to David Read, chariman of importer-funded promotional organisations the Banana Group.
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Banana news
Caribbean anxiety Now that the WTO has officially ruled the EU banana regime must change, Caribbean producers are anxiously awaiting the format which will not drive its US critics back to the international negotiating panel. A spokesman for the Caribbean Banana Exporters Association has expressed the hope the EU will ...
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Alize transports US experience
Passion fruit and cognac cocktail Alize is being given a facelift with a new shape bottle for greater impact on shelf. The frosted presentation remains, as do some label elements of the original bottles, but the brand also gets foil printing...
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HOW THEY'LL LINE UP
Heading the line-up of newcomers in the Knorr range launching next month will be Vie, an ambient soup in a box, and Chinatown, a series of Chinese-inspired cooking sauces. Vie will come in six flavours Tomato & Basil, Carrot & Coriander, Red...
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fresh ways with veg
Suppliers succeeded in a major coup when the Department of Health gave frozen fruit and vegetables the green light for inclusion in the government's Five-a-Day campaign. Frozen vegetables is a burgeoning sector and, including potato products, is...
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Lemon flavour Pepsi shows a zest for trial in multiples
Simon Mowbray Pepsi is to launch its lemon flavoured cola drink Pepsi Twist in the UK but only as part of a trial through multiple grocers, the soft drinks giant has revealed. The company was first to market with such a product in the US last...
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Up close and personal with food
Sir; When Alice gives in to the bottle marked drink me' she gets the mixed flavours of cherry tart, custard, pineapple, roast turkey, toffee, and hot buttered toast delicious by anyone's standard. But, in today's wonderland of supermarket...
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The frozen food market has had steady volume growth of 2.5%
TNS Superpanel values the market at £3.34bn with 99% of households buying the category at least once in the latest 52 weeks. The growth of frozen food is largely due to the performance of frozen potatoes (chips and potato products) which is the...
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PPS duo for Sierra
Tequila brand Sierra is being extended with the introduction of two premium packaged spirit variants. UK distributor The Drinks Company is launching two Sierra Slammer variants Tropic, a mix of orange, pineapple, passion fruit and mandarin...
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Halewood's Hard Core brand proclaims the apple's prowess
Tim Palmer Halewood International is taking the premium packaged drinks category into uncharted waters with the introduction of a high strength (8.4% abv) cider called Hard Core. Brands manager Fran Draper said: "Our research has spotted a gap in...
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German apples
Bodensee region aims to build on progress made in niche markets Growers eye UK as they develop new varieties German apple growers along the shores of Lake Constance are looking to the UK as they develop new apple varieties to increase...
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GERMAN APPLES
Elbe boosts CA capacity Apple growers in the co-operative Elbe Obst are building three new CA stores which will increase its capacity to market late fruit from 6,000t to 40,000t. Growers in the traditional region near Hamburg have always...
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Frozen food
The frozen food market, which for the purpose of this analysis comprises seafood, ready meals, potato products, hot and cold eating desserts, vegetables, pizza, vegetarian foods, sausages, pies, pastry rolls, hand held snacks, quiche and fruit, is...
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Wonders on way despite takeover
Snack specialist Golden Wonder is planning to introduce two new Fruit Wonders adult sweet snacks this summer, despite its surprise takeover this week by Longulf. Most of the company's branded snacks and all of its own label business has gone to...
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Dealing with the emotions
Heinz Tomato Ketchup is back on TV this weekend with the first of two bursts of new ads boasting You can't eat without it'. Heinz's general manager, sauces, Steven Turner, said the new theme, which represented a switch in strategy, targeted...
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All dressed up and fat free
Colchester-based condiments manufacturer CCL Foods has turned its attention to summer with what it claims is the UK's first commercially produced fat-free organic salad dressing. Fat Free Balsamic & Orange joins the recently launched nine-strong...
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canned fruit
Lean and mean' Summerpride talks to leading UK buyers at Anuga South Africans hungry to sell more pineapple to UK Clive Beddall, Cologne South Africa's stake in the UK market for canned pineapple could be set for a boost. Leading SA packer...