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The Grocer Guide to Bread & Baked Goods

While customers remain cost-conscious, bread & baked goods suppliers are focusing on quality, as well as adventurous and innovative NPD to attract shoppers to the category and ride out the storm.

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The Grocer Guide To Soft Drinks

The UK’s diverse soft drinks market continues to be awash with innovation as functional beverages remain in the driving seat. Discover the latest trending flavours and suppliers’ views on how to tackle in-store presentation of this vast category.

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The Grocer Guide To Tobacco, Vaping & Accessories

As the industry awaits the outcome of the proposed Tobacco & Vapes Bill, suppliers are focusing on strategies that will continue to spur growth, such as next-gen products.

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The Grocer Guide To Snacking

Suppliers are spicing things up even further in the snacking category in response to consumer demand.

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The Grocer Guide To Alcohol & Low 2 No

While the total alcoholic beverage market in the UK is stuttering somewhat, the low & no sector is increasingly becoming mainstream, particularly for beer and cider suppliers.

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The Grocer Guide To Frozen

A focus on convenience, variety and air fryer compatibility is driving innovation in the frozen category.

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The Grocer Guide To Christmas

Recognising that consumers’ finances are still constrained this year, suppliers are gearing up to this year’s festive season with a focus on affordable indulgence, gifting and sharing,

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The Grocer Guide to World Foods & Store Cupboard

World foods suppliers continue to find ways to persuade consumers to dine in rather than go out, with convenient meal kits and inspirational products enabling theit taste buds to travel, even from the confines of their own kitchen.

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The Grocer Guide To Protein & Functional Foods

Despite recent financial constraints, protein & functional foods are buoyant as consumers continue to prioritise health and wellness. And, by providing an extended range of shakes, yogurts, protein bars and healthy snacks, suppliers are extending the category boundaries far and wide.

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The Grocer Guide To Household Hygiene & Personal Care

Given constrained budgets over the past year, shoppers are looking for quality, durability and value from household cleaning products, while personal care suppliers are styling their offer to meet varied needs.

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The Grocer Guide To Franchise & Fascia

Despite increased competition from the multiples in the convenience sector, leading franchise & fascia groups are determined to maintain customer loyalty and interest with strong own-brand offers, new technology and investment in promotion.

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The Grocer Guide To Beer & Cider

With inflation having created cold headwinds for the beer & cider category in recent months, suppliers are hoping for a warmer front ahead as the summer’s sporting season kicks off. Discover how they plan to capitalise on this, and why continued innovation remains critical to growth.

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The Grocer Guide To Tobacco, Vaping & Accessories

Despite plenty of regulatory hurdles ahead, the tobacco, vaping & accessories sector is already preparing to weather the storm

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The Grocer Guide to Free From & Plant Based

The UK’s recent economic downturn has seen the free from & plant based category emerge leaner and with a keener focus on clean ingredients and clear provenance.

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The Grocer Guide To Packaging

Recent action from fmcg brands suggests that sustainability remains high on their agenda, but how are packaging and recycling businesses stepping up to help them.

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The Grocer Guide To Breakfast & Brunch

Does breakfast & brunch need a shot in the arm? Maybe so, but there are plenty of opportunities to broaden out the occasion, driven by both health and permissible indulgence.

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The Grocer Guide To Petcare

Even the normally resilient petcare category has been impacted by the cost-of-living crisis, forcing suppliers to focus on value. However, with pet owners still looking to care for their pets’ nutrition, there are still multiple opportunities to encourage them to trade up.

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The Grocer Guide To Cheese

Cheese has suffered the same fate as many fmcg categories in the UK over the past year, with flagging volumes but rapid value growth due to inflation. However, there is optimism for the year ahead, as financial pressures promise to ease.

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The Grocer Guide To Confectionery

Although the cost-of-living crisis and HFSS regulations are bringing pressure to the market, confectionery suppliers continue to trade on the appeal of their products as affordable treats.

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The Grocer Guide To Hot Drinks & Cold Brew

Hybrid working has spurred the demand for barista-quality coffees and energising or soothing teas to enjoy at home, bringing momentum to the category.

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