All Hot beverages articles – Page 42
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Analysis & Features
Are you being self-served?
Unmanned coffee machines generate up to £40k in sales a year, which is why Costa – and retailers – want a bigger slurp of the action. Virginia Matthews reports
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ProfilesMy Alternative CV: Ben Styche, retail controller at Cafédirect
Ben Styche, retail controller at Cafédirect, on life as a tea boy and making a difference to growers’ communities
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News
Only Natural extends range of herbal teas
Only Natural Products, the company behind Dr Stuart's, is expanding its herbal tea portfolio with a new range of stronger-flavoured blends. The organic Higher Living range, available now, consists of eight herbal infusions.
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News
Illy iced coffee set to keep ‘cold hot’ drink category on the boil
The market for 'cold hot drinks' - one of the fastest-growing sub-sectors in soft drinks - is set to receive a further boost with the launch of an iced range from premium coffee producer Illy. Issimo, which made its debut in the US and...
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NewsTwinings freshens up its Earl Grey offering
Twinings is giving its 180-year-old classic Earl Grey tea a modern twist by launching two new blends. New Twinings Earl Grey contains bergamot to enhance its citrus taste, while Sunshine Grey has a lemon flavour and is designed to be...
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NewsMakro begins talks to cut up to 135 jobs
Makro has become the second wholesaler in as many weeks to announce redundancy plans. The cash & carry wholesaler told staff last week that up to 135 jobs could be affected in HR, admin and four in-store coffee shops.
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News
Douwe Egberts makes debut in refill packs
Douwe Egberts is following the lead of other major coffee brands with the launch of refill packs. Two variants of its Instants Pure range Pure Gold and Pure Indulgence will be in Asda and Morrisons nationwide in refill packs from this...
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News
DCS welcomes Smith Coats as head of sales
Personal care wholesaler DCS Central has appointed Bill Smith Coats as head of sales. Smith Coats was head of impulse sales and Tesco business unit manager at Typhoo. Previous to this, he worked at SHS Sales & Marketing as a national...
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News
Britain's 100 Biggest Brands 2011: Nescafé to Robinsons
Already Britain’s biggest coffee brand, Nescafé increased its share of the instant coffee market last year, notching up a healthy 3.5% increase in value...
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News
Britain's 100 Biggest Brands 2011: Kenco to Comfort
Owner Kraft Foods says the growth of Kenco is down to the Starbucks generation having an appetite for premium coffee, and is now pushing Millicano...
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Comment & Opinion
Children of the revolution
Grocer Towers is often the scene of fearsome debate, as our newshounds compare leads, dissect the strategies of the companies we write about and, most commonly, row about whose turn it is to make the tea.
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NewsCoffee Nation to take Costa into self-serve
Coffee Nation, which operates self-service coffee machines in c-stores and forecourts, has been acquired by Costa Coffee owner Whitbread for £59.5m. Whitbread said it would use Coffee Nation as a vehicle to launch Costa Express Costa...
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Comment & OpinionAd of the Week: Aldi’s own-label angel takes a swing at the champ
Thankfully we live in a more tolerant age than when folk hid in kitchens making chugging noises and frothing at the mouth like a possessed Frenchman to convince guests they weren't serving instant coffee.
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Analysis & FeaturesFairtrade: A fairer share for all
Bananas, Dairy Milk and even condoms (in Waitrose from this week). It’s official – Fairtrade’s gone mainstream. But how much are farmers benefiting? Ahead of Fairtrade Fortnight, Beth Phillips visited a cocoa co-operative in Ghana and Sarah Butler met coffee farmers in Uganda to find out
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NewsUnilever promises fresher tea under its PG Tips brand
Unilever is hoping to inject fresh value into the commoditised tea market with a "major innovation" under its PG Tips brand. Next month sees the launch of The New Ones, a range of three black teas made using new patented technology to...
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NewsTetley Facebook site links to tea growers
Tetley has teamed up with Facebook to allow shoppers to communicate directly with tea growers in Malawi as it seeks to boost its ethical credentials. Tea farmers and estate workers will use phones and cameras provided by Tetley. The move...
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News
Focus On Fairtrade: Innovations
This is the UK's first triple-certified (Fairtrade, Organic and Rainforest Alliance) freeze-dried coffee. It is 100% Peruvian, retailing in Booths for £3.29.
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Analysis & FeaturesAcid Test: Douwe Egberts Aromettes
The single-portion blocks of coffee would appeal to the one in four UK instant coffee drinkers who think ground coffee is “too difficult to make”
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NewsDouwe Egberts guns for ground coffee fans
Douwe Egberts hopes to take the grind out of making ground coffee with the launch of a compressed ground coffee tablet a UK first, it claims.
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NewsYorkshire Tea shares joy of a proper brew with Brits in America
Yorkshire Tea has swapped the Dales for the desert highway as part of a new campaign that pokes fun at the bad quality tea Brits have to put up with abroad. The Bettys & Taylors of Harrogate company has invested £3m in the...