All Rankings articles
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Analysis and Features
How the Big 30 Wholesalers fear more suppliers will walk on by
Smaller wholesalers fear more suppliers will follow Diageo in stopping deliveries if they don’t meet minimum order quantities
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Analysis and Features
Festive sales: the winners and losers of Christmas 2023
A flurry of trading results are in. So where did Santa shop the most this Christmas? And who will be starting 2024 with a new year hangover?
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Analysis and Features
The Grocer NPD Wrapped: 23 most-liked Instagram posts of 2023
NPD flew off the shelves this year from controversial flavours to nostalgic relaunches. Check out the top NPD for 2023
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Comment and Opinion
How consumers shopped food and drink in 2023
Own label and treat categories have been winners of the past year, says Rachel White, NIQ MD UK & Ireland
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News
Vaping sales more than double to £1.7bn as cigarettes are cancelled
The vaping category has more than doubled in size and added almost £1bn in extra sales this year
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Analysis and Features
The UK’s 10 fastest falling shopping categories
According to NIQ, these are the 10 fastest falling categories by volume sales
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Analysis and Features
The UK’s 10 shopping categories growing fastest in popularity
Vaping continues its meteoric rises, while the cost of living crisis is reflected in more purchases of ingredients to make home cooking more special
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Analysis and Features
Five shopping basket staples Brits are falling out of love with
The Grocer’s Top Products survey found these five brands struggling on shelves
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Analysis and Features
The best launches in every fmcg category for 2023
Each of the categories covered in our Top Products report features a Top Launch – the product most significant to its respective category in 2023
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News
Prime planning extensions into vaping, CBD, booze and more
It comes as value sales of Prime’s Hydration and Energy ranges have reached a combined £131.1m
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Analysis and Features
Household - cleaning 2023: Consumers rein in spend on homecare
As consumers trade down, own label is performing better in all sectors
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Analysis and Features
Petfood 2023: Pricier pets drive gains for own label
Pet owners trade down as prices soar
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Analysis and Features
Soup 2023: chilled sales back on the boil
Chilled soup brands are hot again. They’re back in volume growth and they’re outperformed own label
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Analysis and Features
Household - paper products 2023: Rising prices fuel value paper lines
Kitchen roll is up 17.7% and loo roll is up 13.6% in average price
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Analysis and Features
Bakery & Bread 2023: White sliced benefits from cost-cutting
The death of white sliced bread has been greatly exaggerated. So suggests this year’s performance
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Analysis and Features
Ice cream 2023: Mackie’s bucking the trend in tubs
Mackie’s has earned the biggest - and almost the only - gain in the sector’s top 15
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Analysis and Features
Spreads & jams 2023: Pip & Nut is star spreads & jams brand
Nut butter brands have shed volume but Pip & Nut is bucking the trend
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Analysis and Features
Alcohol - wine 2023: Sparkling wine crashes out of favour
The party’s well and truly over for fizz
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Analysis and Features
Alcohol - spirits 2023: Premium tipples keep spirits afloat
Cash-conscious drinkers seeking “moments of affordable indulgence – drinking less, but spending more when they do”
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Analysis and Features
Vaping & tobacco 2023: Controversy can’t prevent ElfBar boom
The continued growth of ElfBar and Lost Mary has come despite their devices being found to contain 50% more than the legal limit of liquid nicotine in independent testing