All Hot beverages articles – Page 52
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"If you pop into Tesco in Hungary, you can find strawberries piled up in pyramids. You'll never find those here"
I've got to admit I have a certain amount of sympathy with Ben Bradshaw's call to cut food and drink packaging. If it's not thick plastic wrapped around my broccoli, or pre-wrapped bananas, it's packets of tea with individually wrapped sachets....
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Fry wit for Twinings speciality tea TV ad
Stephen Fry is lending his erudite style of comedy to a new TV advert for Twinings speciality teas. The £2.3m campaign, which breaks next week, centres on three of Twinings' most popular blends - Earl Grey, Lady Grey and Chai. It shows...
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In Brief: Candyking in mix; Campus coffee; Food miles slashed
Candyking in mix Woolworths has signed a four-year deal with Swedish sweets firm Candyking to supply a new pick 'n' mix concept to its 821 high street stores between now and May 2007. Campus coffee Fairtrade...
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Seaweed mix in Kusmi Tea
A French company has brought out a new seaweed tea line, which could double as a bath additive. Kusmi Tea, which produces an extensive range of black and green tea blends baroque packaging, has launched a line combining seaweed and green...
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Whisky prices set to soar as Chinese tipplers up demand
Scotch whisky prices in the UK are set to soar due to rising demand from China, distillers have warned. Scotch whisky is increasingly drunk by the Chinese as a mixer with green tea. Demand has nearly doubled, reducing supply to such an...
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Skinny Candy for Waitrose
Skinny Candy - a sugarfree confectionery range developed by Coffee Republic founder Sahar Hashemi - is poised to announce a listing in Waitrose stores. The brand, which was launched last year and is available in Harvey Nichols and...
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Company Profile More Food
When Caron Howe started baking cakes at her small family-run coffee shop in Chichester in 1992, she could never have known that 14 years later her culinary skills would have snowballed into a £1m-a-year business. Having noted the local...
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Brazilian Nescafé is still in stores
Nestlé UK appears to have done little to stop cheap Brazilian Nescafé Original ending up on the shelves of UK retailers without its consent. Earlier this year we revealed that a number of outlets in the north of England were selling the...
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Aldi launches own Fairtrade tea bags
Aldi has launched a Fairtrade tea, a move believed to mark the first foray by a British discount grocer into the fair trade products arena. ‘Diplomat’ own-brand tea bags are licensed by the Fairtrade Foundation and were launched as part…
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Company profile - More Food
When Caron Howe started baking cakes for her small family run coffee shop in Chichester in 1992, she could never have known that 14 years later her culinary skills would have snowballed into a £1m a year business.Having noted the local...
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Coca-Cola in review of health credentials
Coca-Cola is embracing new drinks - including coffee - as part of its global strategy to counter a slump in its signature fizzy drinks sales. The company is tackling the might of Starbucks with an entry into the lucrative coffee shop...
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A place in the sun
Wandering past vineyards and olive groves, eating local ostrich meat with locally grown okra and chillis, plucking apricots and almonds from well-tended orchards, sipping tea from a plantation down the road... you might think you were holidaying...
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Schwartz adds spice to the television mix
Schwartz is aiming to shake up the herbs and spices category with a merchandising strategy focusing on the themes of simplify, segment and inspire, as well as £4.3m of TV advertising. It is sponsoring C4's tea-time programmes featuring...
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Product: Pure Blue Water Company: Pure Blue Launch date: March 2005
A trip in an old boat all the way from Cornwall to the Canaries may not be everybody's cup of tea, but then not everybody would have the guts to create and launch a new brand into the already crowded water category, which is dominated by big...
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A mug's game for Rombouts filters
Individual filter coffee brand Rombouts is being given a fresh new look as well as new mug size portions to attract younger consumers to the range.A contemporary look is being introduced across its coffee filter lines. In...
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Nestlé changes pack on Fairtrade coffee
Nestlé is ditching the cardboard-style canister used for its Partners' Blend Fairtrade coffee and is moving it into more traditional glass jars in a bid to kickstart sales of the brand.From next month, Partners' Blend will be transferred...
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Douwe Egberts brings out liquid coffee range
Douwe Egberts is hoping to get consumers to switch from standard instant coffee and powdered speciality drinks to its new liquid coffee range, which promises a vastly improved drinking experience.Called Café Switch, the newcomer...
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Store chains must wake up and smell the coffee
This week, National Statistics released new figures revealing that household spending on food and drink products consumed outside the home had more than doubled to £87.5bn from 1992 to 2004. During the same period, spending on fresh and...