Long reads – Page 218
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Analysis & FeaturesMilk takes a £165m hit as prices tumble
The milk sector’s bumpy ride in 2014 was a walk in the park compared with the travails of the past year
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Analysis & FeaturesCan grocers keep pace as e-cigs evolve?
By most category standards, e-cigarettes is still a booming market
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Analysis & FeaturesWhat recall? Free from up a cool £100m
Free-from continues to charge ahead like a freight train
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Analysis & FeaturesWhat recall? Free from up a cool £100m
Free-from continues to charge ahead like a freight train
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Analysis & FeaturesPizza adds some pizazz to frozen food
It’s looking frosty in the freezer aisles, with pizza the only sector in growth
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Analysis & FeaturesFruit flies as veggie sales crash £317m
More than half a billion pounds has been wiped off supermarket fresh food
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Analysis & FeaturesStinking year for deodorant as soap slides
Sales of grooming products are looking less than spruce as the multiples lose ground to cheaper rivals such as the pound stores.
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Analysis & FeaturesDry shampoo cleans up in bad hair year
Batiste dry shampoo is now the UK’s fifth biggest shampoo brand
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Analysis & FeaturesCoffee pods boom as hot drinks cool
Coffee is injecting some much needed growth into the hot beverages category
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Analysis & FeaturesMe-toos lose in household spring clean
The threat of range rationalisation looms large in household
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Analysis & FeaturesPoor summer washes £10m off ice cream
What a washout! Ice cream sales have melted away
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Analysis & FeaturesNut butter up as health nuts seek protein
The nation is going nuts. Sales of nut butters have soared in 2015
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Analysis & FeaturesConditioners clean up with new scents
The performance of fabric conditioners is a masterclass in restoring value
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Analysis & FeaturesBeard trend blunts razors and skincare
It’s perhaps no surprise that the rise of the beard is causing razor sales to lose their edge
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Analysis & FeaturesOil prices slip as coconut enters top 10
Cooking oil, hair conditioner, teeth whitening… is there no end to coconut oil’s uses?
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Analysis & FeaturesPowerbrushes put the buzz into oral care
At last, reason to smile! “We’re on the verge of an oral care revolution…”
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Analysis & FeaturesBitter winter brings boost for flu brand
Cold & flu medicine suppliers got their Scrooge-like wish in 2014/15
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Analysis & Features£50m wiped off nappy and loo roll sales
Range rationalisation and the growth in own-label toilet paper are all fuelling change