Long reads – Page 182
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Analysis & FeaturesConfession of the year: Mars admits Dolmio makes you fat!
Mars created a media storm by recommending some of its cooking sauces should only be eaten weekly
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Analysis & FeaturesDisintermediation of the year: Unilever and Dollar Shave Club
Cutting out the middleman doesn’t just appeal to trendy new startups
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Analysis & FeaturesRecall of the year: Mars acts fast on plastic problem
One pesky piece of plastic proved a spanner in the works for Mars in February
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Analysis & FeaturesCrisis of the Year: Ferrero
The Sun revealed Ferrero was using child labour in Romania to assemble Kinder Egg toys
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Analysis & FeaturesShrinker of the year: Toblerone loses triangles
Tabloids have been obsessed with chocolate’s vanishing act for years
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Analysis & FeaturesDumbest discounter of the year: EasyFoodstore
EasyFood is comfortably one of the oddest extensions for someone who has always shown business savvy
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Analysis & FeaturesBandwagon jumper of the year: protein sweets
With producers cramming extra protein into pizzas, porridge oats and pancakes, it’s a wonder we aren’t all weightlifting
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Analysis & FeaturesDeal of the year: Sainsbury’s and Argos
Why would Sainsbury’s CEO Mike Coupe pay so much for Argos, a struggling 1980s brand that has a different demographic?
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Analysis & FeaturesBabyfood bust up spans from EU to Beijing
It’s been an unpredictable 2016, but Ella’s Kitchen still dominates the babyfood category
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Analysis & FeaturesBagged snack sharing deals impact value
The familiar narrative of Brits ditching fried potato crisps in favour of alternatives isn’t quite so cut and dried
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Analysis & FeaturesThe hard cell: battery price rises on NPD
Sure, the numbers are flat, but they belie big changes in the batteries market
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Analysis & FeaturesA blinder for beer as cider brands sour
Don’t let the fact that food & drink’s fastest falling brand is a lager (Carlsberg, down £73.6m) fool you
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Analysis & FeaturesBiscuits take a bashing as sales crumble
Brits have reined in spend when it comes to biscuits, with £25.5m wiped off category value
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Analysis & FeaturesCould Brexit end the era of cheap bread?
Prices could be about to change direction, says Warburtons innovation director Darren Littler
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Analysis & FeaturesAs BSM slides is 'Sprexit' on the cards?
It’s time for Sprexit. So said City analysts SocGen in July as they urged Unilever to sell off its struggling spreads
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Analysis & FeaturesHealthy lines steal a bigger slice of cakes
Cake sales have gone soggy. The £30.4m rise we reported a year ago is a distant memory
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Analysis & FeaturesRange resets crush canned branded sales
As canned food’s losses accelerated this year, the sector’s biggest brands piled high and sold cheap
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Analysis & FeaturesCereals miss out on breakfast's rebirth
Breakfast is back! Fewer people are giving their morning meal a miss, we revealed earlier this year
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Analysis & FeaturesAnchor sinks in big cheese spring clean
Retailers have been swinging the axe at their cheese ranges this past year, creating big winners and even bigger losers
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Analysis & FeaturesBrexit and the big fat choccy challenge
There are some big bust-ups bubbling away in confectionery