All articles by Grace Duncan – Page 4
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Category ReportThe butter boom: how health and NPD are driving sales
As consumers turn their backs on UPFs, health-conscious shoppers are readopting butter as a cleaner label choice
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Category ReportButter growth in own label threatens brand dominance
Private label lines are faring better than branded ones. Own label value is up 11.6% on volumes that have risen 0.6%, while branded value is flat on volumes down 7.6%
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Category ReportShoppers focus on UPFs debate and provenance
Shoppers’ concerns about UPFs are driving a resurgence in block butters, aided by their perception as a ‘very natural product’
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Category ReportFlavoured butters fly thanks to recipe content
Searches for flavoured butter on Ocado alone have increased 184% year on year
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Category ReportSpreads NPD is healthy and fuss-free as sales slide
A survey in April by Vypr of 1,800 adults found 49.2% were worried about the processing involved in making spreads
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Category Report‘We’re walking this tightrope of staying true to our values’
Since its grocery debut in Sainsbury’s in 2023, it has snagged Waitrose, Ocado and Co-op listings and launched quirky variants including Truffle and Cinnamon Roll
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NewsBritish strawberry season delayed due to cold weather
The cooler spring has slowed the ripening process, but with strawberries remaining on plant for longer, the taste profile is richer with more balanced natural sweetness, according to growers
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NewsAll Things launches butter into Tesco
The launch of All Things Salted and All Things Unsalted brings the brand into the UK’s largest retailer
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NewsBertolli launches butter-based SKU
Bertolli Spreadable with Butter and Olive Oil contains four ingredients: dairy butter, olive oil, water and salt
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NewsKerry Dairy rebrands to Kinisla alongside €300m investment
The name change combines the words kinship, to represent its people, and isla, meaning island, to represent Ireland’s natural resources
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NewsThis launches western music video to mark Steak launch
The campaign is designed to mark the launch of its Fillet Steak and follows ‘Flint Flatiron’, a traditional cowboy
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NewsAndy Murray marks Albert Bartlett donating 20 million meals
Murray visited the Move On facility in Glasgow, where he toured the Coronation Food Project Hub
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NewsChris Packham calls for Co-op CEO to ban ‘Frankenchickens’
Packham has called on the supermarket to stop sourcing ultra-fast-growing chicken breeds known as ‘Frankenchickens’
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Analysis & FeaturesHave meat alternatives just solved their price problem?
The price gap between meat and plant-based alternatives is closing. Is this the good news plant-based has been looking for?
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NewsAHDB ads rapped by ASA over carbon emissions claims
The standards agency said that claims made in two of the levy board’s ads breached rules over misleading advertising, substantiation and environmental claims
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News‘Culture of fear’ on the rise in Seasonal Worker scheme
In its annual report, ‘A year of building worker power’, Worker Support Centre reported that it had supported 550 people in Scotland, many of whom face ‘fear, discrimination and retaliation’
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NewsNanna Tate expands range with Baby Potatoes line
The Branston-owned brand said the ‘bite-sized beauties are carefully selected from the very best varieties of baby potatoes’ and are quick to cook
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NewsTom Parker Creamery announces supply partnership with First Milk
The partnership, the business said, would strengthen its commitment to regenerative dairy and supply chain sustainability
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NewsMeatly to build Europe’s largest cultivated meat factory in London
The business has raised £10.4bn in series A funding to put behind building the 20,000-litre bioreactor facility in London
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NewsQuorn expands no artificial ingredients range into chilled
The reformulated product is the first in the chilled aisle to join the range and is available in Tesco and Sainsbury’s from today