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Consumer Feedback
>>adults focus more on premium products, while family offerings focus on healthOriginally there was one database of crisp and snack products within Fast Foodfax, dominated by standard crisps and kids potato/maize-based...
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Consumer Insight
When cold ham is eatennIn the past 12 months, 2.6 billion meals included cold ham, the same number as in the previous yearnSeven out of every 10 meals including cold ham are at lunchtime,...
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Delivery costs slashed
The Co-operative Group hopes the purchase of 40 new trailers as part of an overhaul of its logistics network will result in quicker deliveries to stores and better availability.Its distribution arm, Co-operative Retail Logistics (CRL), has...
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Sunny D gets an exotic touch
Flagging Sunny D brand is set for a revival with an exotic flavour and portfolio rationalisation by new owner Gerber Foods.Sunny D Caribbean Style with no added sugar, a blend of passion fruit, orange, apple and pear juices, hits chillers from...
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Early Days
>>a look at how new brands are performingProduct: BaciCompany: NestléLaunch date: January 2005Baci, Nestlé’s answer to Ferrero Rocher, ran into trouble before it even hit shelves at the...
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The Saturday Essay
>>get your licence applications in now – James Purnell, minister for media and tourismIt’s probably a familiar scenario. It’s 7.30am on a Monday. A customer comes in to do their shopping on the way home from a night shift. They...
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Staff sought for expansion
Fresh & Wild, the organic food retailer, has ordered a major recruitment drive in preparation for the next stage of its ambitious growth plans.The chain, with six Fresh & Wild stores in London and one in Bristol, has been advertising...
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Munch with extra punch
Nestlé has reduced added sugar and increased the fruit content of its Munch Bunch and Mega Pots Fromage Frais as well as introduced clearer packaging to appeal more to mums.The new design will display nutritional information on the front of the...
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Salmon farm goes under
Another independently owned salmon farm in Shetland has lost the fight against low prices in the aquaculture industry. PricewaterhouseCoopers’ receivers have been appointed to wind up Hoove Salmon.Shetland’s independent farmed salmon industry...
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Health trend favours fruit nibbles
Hunger for healthy nibbles has favoured the fruit snack market in both at-home and on-the-go formatsConsumer hunger for healthy nibbles has had a negative impact on the crisps, nuts and bagged snacks category overall, but the trend...
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Rice snacks fighting for space on shelves
Rice crackers and cakes is still a dynamic sector but is losing sales to more traditional low-fat snacksRice snacks, including rice cakes and rice crackers, were the big thing last year and the sector is still dynamic in terms of...
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Waitrose tries low-price food
Waitrose has broken away from its traditional quality-over-price roots for the first time with a trial of a low-price food range to pull in new shoppers.The range, which it describes as “inexpensive branded lines”, is being tested in selected...
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Suppliers’ spice move fury
Spice companies are up in arms after attempts by Tesco to steamroller through an initiative giving it control of ingredients purchasing.The multiple has banned primary own brand suppliers from using spice firms that do not comply with its new...
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Snack makers step up their game
Consumers are being bombarded with ‘better-for-you’ snack options as manufacturers seek to provide healthier products. Lisa Riley reportsCrisps, nuts and bagged snacks manufacturers have had to step up their game in recent years as a...
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Why lads go on top
Tesco’s decision to move lads mags higher up shelves has received support from several quarters. But where does it end, asks Rod AddyGiven Tesco’s seemingly unstoppable success as a global retailer, it’s understandable it receives the...
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Going nutty over nuts
Growing consumer awareness of the health credentials of nuts has boosted sales and resulted in speedy growth of the sectorNuts, the smallest sector of the total category, is also the fastest growing. Sales have been boosted, as per...
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Wales’s gold standard
Companies who want to enter the fourth True Taste Wales Food and Drink Awards, managed by the Welsh Development Agency, must get entries in by June 17.Arwyn Davies, the WDA’s agri-food director, said: “Being a winner brings recognition from...
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Tesco may want his lunch but Rose has other plans
A year since he took up the helm at M&S Stuart Rose is out to make its business less schizophrenic, as he tells Siân HarringtonStuart Rose is visibly tired after a week in which he has been scrutinised on everything from whether...
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Ready meals now on ice for toddlers
The first frozen ready-meal range aimed specifically at toddlers has been launched under a Kiddylicious label.It is the concept of Sally Preston, MD of Babylicious frozen meals on ice trays for babies, who said strict EU laws banning the use of...
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Setting a premium on indulgence
The premium snacking sector has benefited from a number of innovations as consumers look for better-tasting, higher-quality premium products that offer a healthier view on indulgenceAlthough the premium sector of crisps, nuts and...