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Salad condiments
Sales in the salad condiments sector, including salad cream, mayonnaise and salad dressings, have been stagnant, up only 0.3%, as companies struggle to add value to what is traditionally a low-margin category. Yet despite slow growth, the...
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Confectionery products are habitual purchases
In such a crowded market, what are the key drivers for purchase? This was the question put to consumers by shopper behaviour consultant Visuality.Confectionery is dominated by habitual purchases. Time and again, researchers saw shoppers...
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CONSUMER FEEDBACK
Subtle changes are slowly influencing and reshaping the countline confectionery market. As competition intensifies from the expanding range of cereal bars and other healthy alternatives, countlines have become more indulgent, offering an...
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CONSUMER FEEDBACK
The confectionery category is increasingly dominated by innovations in boxed and tub formats, with consumers adopting modestly priced packs of favourite chocolates repackaged and presented in a different guise.Many top brands have been...
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Keeping consumers sweet
Confectionery hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons when 'that' salmonella story, about the contamination of a certain purple-coloured brand, broke in July. Headlines screamed of meltdown at the company with some newspapers relating the...
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First Milk eyeing up Dairy Crest own label
Dairy Crest has confirmed that it is in negotiations with First Milk regarding "the possible sale of part of its retailer brand cheese operations". The discussions are "ongoing", said the company, and "there can be no certainty that this will...
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Second opinion The crisis presented by the poor Scottish diet has serious lessons for the future of the whole UK food industry says Tim Lang
I have spent the last year chairing an official governmental review of Scotland's diet and health, published last week. It takes a sober look at what everyone is and is not doing to address Scotland's poor diet-related ill-health. Jokes...
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Shop Profile Curley's
Hugh Kennedy, MD of Northern Irish independent retailer Curley's, has a hectic couple of years ahead of him. Not only is he doubling the size of the Curley's supermarket in his Kennedy Shopping Centre in west Belfast, but he has ambitious plans...
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Dr Oetker prescribes deep heat treatment
Dr Oetker is throwing down the gauntlet to frozen pizza competitors as it aims to reinvigorate the ailing deep-pan sector with a range positioned as "the holy grail of deep-pan bases". It is investing £6m to support its new The Deep Crisp...
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Tozer rises to meet demand for gourds
Booming sales of novel gourds and pumpkins should not lead to empty shelves this year, according to the company that supplies much of the seed to growers in the sector. Technologist Jim Joby at Tozer Seeds told The Grocer that the company...
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Trends & Developments
Tate & Lyle has embarked on a campaign to bring fun family activities to life with the help of TV mum and Lyle's Golden Syrup advocate Annabel Croft. The push, which focuses on the rich heritage of the product and how it can help bring families...
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Trends & Developments
?Small is beautiful - at least, that's what Green & Black's is hoping for with its latest venture, a boxed set of miniature versions of its chocolate bars. Available from major supermarkets and department stores, the Miniatures Collection...
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Diageo's heroes set for their winter warming
Diageo GB has revealed plans to ensure it has a very merry Christmas through investment and festive activity for its key brands. It is investing in its classic brands Baileys, Gordon's, Guinness and Smirnoff, as well as its whiskey and...
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Scots potato plan fails to hit dietary targets
Scots are eating 25% less potato than they did 10 years ago, causing concern among nutritionists and politicians alike. The findings were published last week in a review of Scotland's Dietary Action Plan, chaired by Tim Lang, who declared...
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Eastern promise
Russia remains the red hot ticket in Central and Eastern Europe - but cumbersome bureaucracy and endemic corruption make it far from an easy play for foreign retailers and suppliers, according to the latest IGD report analysing the region's...
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Hot Eats: new restaurants
Rebecca and Daniel Blackstone play kitchen and front-of-house roles respectively. She's a Leith-trained, ex-Delia Smith food stylist; he's an experienced manager whose CV includes La Tante Claire and Chez Bruce. The pair met under Anton...
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Waitrose Entertaining goes from strength to strength
Waitrose Entertaining is going from strength to strength, according to the retailer. Kate Greenslade, category buyer, Waitrose Entertaining, said sales at the catalogue service had been consistently good and were rising steadily. She...
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Everybody's on the sauce
The sauces and condiments category has been given a vigorous shake over the past year, most notably by Heinz and Premier Foods, which have both been busy trying to squeeze more value out of products that have been around for decades. First Heinz...
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What should Scooby fear?
The character licensing market could be facing tough times if threats of advertising restrictions become a reality. Having opposed Ofcom's three proposals on advertising to children, which are all based around time restrictions on...
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QSM pork message gets a loving feeling
'Love QSM Pork' is the new slogan being used to take the Quality Standard Mark to the next stage of its marketing campaign. It moves on from efforts to simply promote use of the QSM mark alongside the strapline 'just 4% fat'. The...