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Focus On Crisps, Nuts & Snacks: Flavours go to extremes
Crisp flavours get more outlandish every year, as typified by Walkers' Flavour Cup campaign, which includes German Bratwurst Sausage and Irish Stew.
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Focus On Crisps, Nuts & Snacks: Potatoes are so yesterday
Manufacturers are hoping bagged snacks can be given a healthier image by producing crisps made from a range of alternatives to the humble potato including bread, cassava root and even fruit.
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Focus On Crisps, Nuts & Snacks: Four to watch
Warburtons surprised the industry with its move into snacks. ChippidyDooDaa, a pitta snack, and SnackaDoodle, a wholegrain bread snack, are intended to offer a healthier alternative to standard crisps.
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NewsCritical Eye... on the low-fat food gods
First we had the ghastly BNP twinning itself with the nation's favourite Marmite in that Party Political Broadcast. Now we have Family Food Fight with Flora.
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World Cup Watch: Group G
Brazil is so vast no one cuisine can define it, but rice and beans are staples all over. The national drink is caipirinha, a cocktail of sugar, lime and cachaça liquor made from sugar cane of which more than a billion litres are made every year.
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HMRC decides wholesaler register plan is unfeasible
Plans to introduce a wholesaler registration scheme to reduce alcohol duty fraud have hit the buffers.The Federation of Wholesale Distributors drew up plans last year to introduce a register of wholesalers that deal with at least 100...
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Dole steps up rivalry with Ella’s Kitchen
Fruit company Dole is locking horns with Ella's Kitchen with the launch of a new and cheaper range of kids' fruit purées.Fruit Snack is packaged in a squeezable fruit pouch, similar to Ella's Kitchen's Smoothie Fruits, and is made with...
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NewsJohn West prepares to extend No Drain to entire tuna range
John West is extending its No Drain technology out across its entire canned tuna portfolio to build on the success of its No Drain Less Mess Tuna, which has clocked up an impressive £20m in sales since its launch last year.
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Sainsbury’s sets out to regain the edge in wine
Sainsbury's has revamped its wine aisle as a riposte to other retailers "parking their tanks on its lawn".From the end of June, all Sainsbury's wine aisles will be split into Our Cellar, New Arrivals, Case Deals and Everyday Favourites ...
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Natty hits Tesco with her rarebit
An innovative Welsh rarebit spreads range has won its first multiple listing.
Natty’s Welsh Rarebit makes its major retail debut in 45 Tescos in Wales this month. It comes in four flavours original, leek, chilli and bacon and is… -
NewsRowse sets out plans to overtake Marmite
Rowse Honey has unveiled ambitious plans to create £23m extra sales of honey by 2012 and dethrone Marmite as the UK's top-selling spread brand.
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Own-label triumphs for Tesco and M&S
Own-label wines starred at this year's International Wine Challenge, the event's organisers said.Tesco and Marks & Spencer were joint winners, each with 62 own-label wines picking up IWC awards and M&S claiming five gold medals....
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NewsNew Britain launches Liverpool palm oil plant
United Biscuits and cereal maker Jordans are the companies to have signed a supply deal through a new £18m palm oil processing plant in Liverpool.
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NewsNew chair for Iceland as Baugur founder steps aside
Iceland Foods has appointed a new chairman after Jon Asgeir Johanneson stepped down to defend himself against a lawsuit.
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NewsNescafé recalled in glass contamination alert
Nestlé has been forced to recall jars of Nescafé Collections coffee over fears of glass contamination.
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NewsAsda to sell cancer drugs in not-for-profit move
Asda is to sell private prescription cancer drugs on a ‘not for profit’ basis from Monday.
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NewsProfits shoot up at Durex maker SSL
SSL International, the maker of Durex condoms and Scholl footcare products, is celebrating a stellar year after profits shot up by more than 50%.
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Cargill boss hails 'resilient' emerging markets
The chief executive of commodities giant Cargill has hailed the “remarkably resilient” diets of nations in emerging markets for staving off fears of a collapse in demand over the economic crisis.
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NewsConcha y Toro nets Manchester United tie-up
Concha y Toro has become the official wine partner of Manchester United in a deal it hopes will boost its presence in Asia, Latin America and Europe.
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Sainsbury’s non-food website makes TV debut
Sainsbury’s first TV advert for its non-food website will promote the 8,000-product range this evening.