All articles by Natalie Brown – Page 8
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Category ReportRice & Noodles Category Report 2014
If takeaway chefs are cooking less rice at the moment, they need look no further…
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Category ReportHome Baking Category Report 2014
Value sales of baking ingredients through the major mults have fallen 1.1% over the past year, while volumes have sunk…
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Category ReportFocus on Home Baking
Sales are flagging and the discounters are increasingly making a move on the sector. How can the mults and brands respond?…
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Category ReportLunchbox Category Report 2014
As a nation, we’ve packed our lunchboxes on 76.6 million fewer occasions in the past year, according to analysis carried out exclusively for The Grocer. Why?… Submissions deadline: 6 June
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Category ReportFocus on Lunchbox
Schools are policing lunchboxes. Parents may be packing kids off with more fruit, but 26% admit flouting packed lunch rule…
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Analysis and FeaturesBear snacks bridge gap between happy and healthy
It’s amazing what can come out of a cave. The founders of fruit snack brand Bear now have a multimillion pound business…
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Category ReportFrozen Food Category Report 2014
The clouds over the frozen food aisle have taken an unmistakably equine shape of late.
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Category ReportFocus on Frozen Food
Horsegate has cast a shadow over some frozen food sectors, but others remain in the sun. What’s this year’s forecast?…
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Category ReportSoft drinks category report 2014
Pop is losing power as a new generation of healthier, exotic and innovative drinks enjoys stellar sales. How can it regain its fizz?
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Category ReportFocus on soft drinks
Pop is losing power as a new generation of healthier, exotic and innovative drinks enjoys stellar sales…
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Category ReportCoke takes a leaf from SodaStream... or Nespresso...?
Imagine a cross between a Sodastream and a coffeemaker that can pour a glass of Coke, Fanta or Sprite in your own kitchen…
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Analysis and FeaturesHorsemeat scandal boosts premium burgers, bangers and bacon
Horsegate has focused consumers’ minds on premium options but is quality enough to sustain growth in burgers and bangers?…
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Category ReportYoghurts and potted desserts category report 2014
Just one word sums up the past year in yoghurt: scher-mazing, as Müller Corner poster girl Nicole Scherzinger would say.
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Category ReportThe Scher-mazing rise of yoghurts and desserts
Dessert-style yoghurt has the X factor, thanks partly to smart NPD and ads starring a certain scher-singer…
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Category ReportIce cream category report 2014
With the force gathering in luxurious and licensed ice cream, the humble cornet is in trouble. But now it’s about to strike back…
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Category ReportFocus on Ice Cream: Attack of the cones
With the force gathering in luxurious and licensed ice cream, the humble cornet is in trouble. But now it’s about to strike back…
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NewsFree-from boosted by health concerns
It’s not just frozen yoghurt hitting the big time. After Gü founder James Averdieck bought a controlling interest in dairy-free ice cream brand Bessant & Drury last July, free-from ice cream is set to go mainstream too. Averdieck says he plans to turn the pioneering coconut brand, ...
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Category ReportFocus on Household and Paper Products
Hyacinth Bucket would be pleased. We’re becoming more house proud - as our special report on the household & paper products sector reveals…
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Category ReportAre we becoming a bunch of Hyacinths?
Britain is becoming increasingly house proud, with volumes up in all bar one of the household subcategories…
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Category ReportAllergy-free NPD: a new household opportunity?
Consumers are not just interested in what goes into their food, they also want to know what is - or isn’t - in their cleaning products.