All articles by Rob Brown – Page 13
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Category Report
Up in the air: crisps, nuts & snacks category report 2018
The sector’s NPD pipeline resembles a conveyor belt dialled up to 11, rattling out weird and wonderful new products at a blistering rate
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Category Report
Playing the game: Soft Drinks Category Report 2018
You’d expect the taxman to have lost a few friends last week when he began levying as much as 24p for every litre of sugar
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Analysis & Features
16 innovative new soft drinks coming to supermarkets
This isn’t just a new flavour variant, says Vita Coco. It’s a whole new category for the brand
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News
How Brexit is shaking up the grocery price landscape
The clearest picture yet of how Brexit is changing the way Britain eats, drinks and shops is revealed in our Top Products 2017 survey
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News
Price disputes see booze brands suffer year's biggest losses
Hardys Wine suffered the greatest loss of any food or drink product in The Grocer’s 2017 Top Products report
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News
UK winning war on sugar as industry responds on health
The war on sugar is working, exclusive analysis by The Grocer reveals
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News
Mayonnaise passes ketchup to become top sauce in the UK
Mayonnaise has stolen ketchup’s crown as Britain’s bestselling sauce
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Comment & Opinion
Why ketchup needs craft more than it needs Kraft
Ketchup’s biggest brand is to thank for most of mayo’s £10m growth
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Analysis & Features
A lost generation: How to bring the young back to breakfast
The hunt is on for breakfast’s lost generation: millennials. And we’ve unearthed new evidence that might help bring them back to the breakfast table.
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Category Report
Will an ageing nation recharge sales? Batteries report 2017
Could the boom in at-home medical devices such as blood pressure and glucose monitors boost flattening battery sales?
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Analysis & Features
Revealed: How free-from sales surged by a whopping £230m
Brits have forked out an extra £230m on free-from food & drink in the past year. That’s a rise of more than 40%. Here we reveal the retailers and brands driving growth and how they’re doing it. Cut yourself a slice here!
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Comment & Opinion
Ambient grocery needs a fresh approach to in-store marketing
Rice & noodles brands are the latest to be engaged in a vicious cat & mouse game with own label. Here’s how they can fight back and reclaim the aisles …
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Comment & Opinion
Bread is a barometer for Brexit Britain. And it is getting more expensive
So much for cheap food prices post Brexit … be prepared for less bread for your dough is the message coming out across the grocery industry
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News
Wrapped bread returns to value growth after four years of decline
Latest figures show that sales of a basic loaf continue to rise, due to soaring wheat prices and the impact of a weak pound
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Analysis & Features
As bread prices rise again, how can sales be beefed up?
Less than half the population now eats bread daily. In this special report we look at ways to reinvent bread, see where baked goods’ biggest opportunities are and ask brands what they are doing to get a rise out of a loaf
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Rankings
Britain's Biggest Alcohol Brands 2017: the battle for the booze aisles
The big guns of booze are going to war over dwindling shelf space as a wave of agile and on-trend craft brands advances
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Rankings
As BrewDog goes mainstream, the big boys are 'going craft'
There’s more choice than ever before in our booze aisles
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Rankings
Britain's Biggest Alcohol Brands 2017
1 (1) Stella Artois SALES: £527.0m GROWTH: -2.1% Britain’s biggest booze brand is doing its best to bury the ‘wifebeater’ sobriquet it picked up in the 1990s. It’s no longer for chugging from a tankard to slake a hard-earned thirst, as it so often was ...
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Category Report
Beauty food: Functional food and drink report 2017
To think food & drink was once for filling you up or slaking a thirst
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Comment & Opinion
Dove has gone cuckoo in its latest baby ads
Dove is supposed to know ‘real’ women. But its latest babycare campaign shows a brand out of touch