All Hot beverages articles – Page 61
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Lipton Ice Tea has uncool fun
Unilever is to spend millions of pounds having a laugh with Lipton Ice Tea for a second year.A £3.5m spend is headed by a new TV ads set to run until September which follow the success of last year’s ‘Don’t knock it till you’ve tried it’...
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Nescafé’s prize packs
Nestlé is launching two new support packages behind its Nescafé Original and Gold Blend instant coffee variants.Original fans will be offered an on-pack loyalty scheme from mid-June where they can exchange ‘bean tokens’ for rewards, including a...
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Premier Foods to float
Premier Foods is to be floated on the stock market. The UK food group whose brands include Typhoo Tea and Branston Pickle is valued at around £1.3bn.Premier Foods is owned by private equity group Hicks, Muse, Tate and Furst. The US group has...
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Nestlé eyes fair trade
Nestlé is plotting its first assault on the fair trade market with its Nescafé brand. The food and drinks multinational is holding top level talks to throw its Nescafé instant coffee stalwart into the arena by bringing out a fair trade...
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Now Tetley keeps tea on the boil
Tetley is brewing up for another onslaught on the buoyant sectors of the hot beverages market with a 12-strong wave of new premium teas and a £5m support package.Trialled in Tesco since August last year, four speciality offerings, two green tea...
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Star brands boost ABF
Ovaltine, Kingsmill and Ryvita helped drive up sales and profit at Associated British Foods in its interim period.Ryvita enjoyed strong growth in crispbreads, while ABF said Ovaltine, which was acquired in November, and Twinings improved...
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Tea with plenty of Latitude
Metro Drinks aims to make a splash in iced teas with a four strong ready-to-drink range called Latitude.Rolling out now, the quartetincludes traditional Lemon and Peach flavours, a more unusual Mango Green tea variant and a Light Peach...
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PG Plunger drops out of sight
Unilever is pulling the plug on its PG Plunger loose tea concept after sales failed to reach the company’s expectations.The product had been a bold move by the food giant to inject some life into the flagging hot beverages market, which last...
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'New' Ethical 'Old' Ethical
>>major ethical offerings and how they have been doingBrand: Tesco own labelLaunched: March 2004Brand proposition: 15 product range including orange juice, cookes, coffee, tea, chocolate and South African Wine,...
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Tesco launches its own Fairtrade range
Tesco will launch a new own label Fairtrade range next week to coincide with the start of Fairtrade Fortnight.The 15-product range, developed in conjunction with the Fairtrade Foundation, will include orange juice, cookies, coffee, tea,...
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Extra Thin Ice looks beyond mint
Wrigley has given the first indication that its successful Extra Thin Ice fresh breath strips could soon be extended beyond mint flavours.Coffee, peach melba and even cinnamon variants are all possible line extensions and could be on sale by...
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Fashionable Nescafé
Nescafé has signed up TV fashion gurus Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine to front the brand’s first ‘text-to-win’ promotion.The £5m on-pack push will give consumers the chance to win one of 10 shopping sprees, each worth £10,000, with the...
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C-T faces strike action
Carlsberg-Tetley has vowed that supplies of Tetley’s bitter will not be hit after staff at its Leeds brewery voted in favour of a week-long strike.As The Grocer went to press, the brewer was meeting union leaders in a bid to avert action after...
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Wake up call from Typhoo
Premier Foods is kicking off the new year with a £5.6m marketing investment behind Typhoo tea.Breaking this week, activity includes a new TV ad campaign for the main brand and sponsorship of GMTV's LK Today programme by Typhoo...
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ABF buys G Costa
Associated British Foods, with brands Ryvita, Twinings and Ovaltine has bought speciality food company G Costa for an undisclosed sum.Blue Dragon brand owner G Costa, which reported annual sales in 2002 of £51.8 m, said the company would be...
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The jars option
Twinings is throwing its limited edition Options range of hot drinks into jars this winter for the first time.The hot beverages expert, which bought the Options brand from Novartis at the end of last year, said Banoffee flavour would be the...
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Barbarella inspires new poster push by Lavazza
This is one of the stunning images which will be used to promote Italian coffee stalwart Lavazza over the coming year.The creation of celebrated French fashion photographer Thierry Le Gouès, it will be joined by one other picture to form a...
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Wells takes RTD route
Charles Wells has become the latest brewer to dip its toe in the ready-to-drink market.The Bedford-based brewer is in talks with buyers about Muse, a spirits-based RTD in four variants – Sex on the Beach, Long Island Iced Tea, Illusion and...
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Tetley branches out into speciality tea offerings
Tetley is continuing its bid to rejuvenate the tea market by launching two new ranges of speciality brews.The company is taking a leaf out of its foreign operations’ book by introducing traditional tea drinkers to speciality offerings under...
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AG Barr profits brew
Scottish drinks manufacturer AG Barr said the hot weather had boosted its citrus-based drinks – Orangina, Lipton Ice Tea and Simply Citrus. Pre-tax profit rose 16% from £6.2m to £7.2m for the six months ended July 26. Turnover increased by...