All Hot beverages articles – Page 62
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A time for real action
Downgraded from a summit to a seminar, (what's the difference, Tony?), the prime minister's coffee morning with the white coats and green wellies brigade (aka the food chain) this week was, whatever media critics might say, an important stage in the...
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Big spend on Rappor
Kraft Foods is aiming to boost sales of its Kenco Rappor coffee range to consumers in their 20s and 30s, with redesigned packaging and a £1.2m marketing spend. New TV and cinema ads and sampling activity in major commuter zones account for most of...
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Ice try with first Lipton ad support
Unilever Bestfoods is backing the relaunch of its Lipton Ice Tea with £5m, including the brand's first ad support. The tea now in glass bottles will be rolled out in the summer. Lemon and Peach flavours join Original following successful trials...
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Typhoo bags £5m overhaul
Simon Mowbray Typhoo is to become the latest major tea brand to undergo a multi-million pound revamp, in a bid to halt plummeting sales. Premier Foods International is brewing up a £5m overhaul of the famous brand, including new packaging and a...
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Eden Vale Munch Bunch yogurt and fromage frais brand is spon
Kraft Foods has introduced Expresso and Decaffeinated variants to its Carte Noire roast ground coffee brand. Football Mix a collection of jelly and foam sweets has rejoined Haribo's range to help retailers capitalise on World Cup interest....
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C-T pitch could be ruled outer bounds
Carlsberg-Tetley's multi-million pound warm-up plans for the World Cup could be shown a red card if a complaint by a rival brewer is upheld. The brewing giant is hoping to score millions of extra sales in the run up to this summer's tournament in...
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Lager and Export relaunches key to C-T's £45m battle plan
Tim Palmer Carlsberg-Tetley has topped the league of big spending brewers by announcing a staggering £45m budget for its two key lager brands this year. The giant spend beats the £42m Interbrew is putting behind Boddingtons and Stella Artois, and...
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It may be the oldest drink on earth, but this month's trawl
Staying with the battle of the sexes in drinks, Taiwan firm Uni Président has launched his' and hers' premium coffee drinks. His Café is a blend of strong Mandheling coffee with 50% milk and sugar, while Her Café is a similar blend but with more...
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PG Tips' Chimps It was the end of monkey business for Unil
The Bisto Kids First introduced in 1919 and created by the famous cartoonist Wilf Owen, the kids' cast-off, cut down clothes were a depiction of post war depression. Their mischievous antics in press ads made them cult figures, although they were...
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character assassination
n Tetley has joined a growing list of manufacturers who are bravely ditching much-loved product characters in favour of fresh campaigns. Simon Mowbray asks if it is the end of the road for our brand icons Something rather sinister is happening...
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Hot Beverages
Hot beverages, a market which includes coffee, tea and food drinks such as drinking chocolate and malted products, continued to see growth. Sales rose 1.4% to £1.1bn this year across the total category. Coffee has continued to take share from what…
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No quick fix for a footie fan in need of coffee
The shop at Welcome Break's Keele services was voted tops by our mystery shopper who was charged with the task of checking out the facilities along the M6. The mission was simple: to see how easy it was to buy a quick snack meal on a Saturday...
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Tea Folk relegated to the bench as Tetley's up for a champio
Simon Mowbray Tetley is to embrace life without its Tea Folk icons by launching a £15m multi-media campaign. As exclusively revealed in the news pages of The Grocer this week, the tea maker is ditching its famous cartoon characters after 28 years...
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Gift shop and tea rooms
It would be difficult to find a more pleasant place to own a business than Launceston in Cornwall, according to Christie & Co. Bodmin Moor borders the ancient market town to the west. Dominated by its Norman castle, it is the acknowledged gateway...
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Value and volume sales of tea fell following a period of pri
Tetley stepped up its campaign, including participation in Safeway price deals. This helped push value sales for Tetley up by 8% with sales in Safeway very strong. Whilst mainstream tea brands fell 6%, speciality teas such as green and organic...
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Old favourites dress to kill while the giants wrestle over a
Some old favourite brands got dressed up this year. Schweppes mixers and Nescafé both got their first packaging revamp in 20 years, while four-finger Kit Kat and Cadbury Dairy Milk both had shiny new flow-wrap outfits. Hovis loaves sported new...
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A HIERARCHY WITH A REAL POINT OF DIFFERENCE
What do Nestlé Harvest Home cereals, Lyons coffee, Plumrose cooked meats and Princes Geebee drinks have in common? They are just some of the secondary brands now being sold exclusively by Kwik Save as part of the bottom up range reviews conducted by...
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Miniature cigar brand Café Creme is getting a price promotio
Clipper has launched a new Organic Decaffeinated Tea. Rsp: £2.59 for 40 bags. The Enjoy Organic Company has brought out 150g bags of tortilla chips in chilli and cheese and onion. Rsp: £1.29. Facial tissue brand Kleenex has activated its...
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Hot can gets out of hand
Nestlé has lost control of trials of its new self-heating, ready-to-drink can of Nescafé Original as supermarkets nationwide snap up supplies. The trials of Nestlé's new Hot when you Want' coffee were originally intended to be limited to retail...
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I drink at least four cups of coffee per day, black with no
The packaging is perfect; elegant bottles (which incidentally have an amazing non drip pouring capability) that would look great a few sizes smaller co-habiting a presentation box with some coffee beans and a grinder. How many weeks until Christmas?...