All Top Products articles
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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 five fastest growing products of 2023
Logan Paul and KSI’s Prime brand shoots into the charts, while Brits made Lost Mary their vaping brand of choice
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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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Comment and Opinion
Promotions are back with a bang, but who will buy these brands at the rsp?
Are brands helping customers if it’s only via promos? It’s a dangerous game
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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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Analysis and Features
Personal care - beauty 2023: Bargains on beauty lines drive growth
The lipstick effect took on a literal meaning in 2023
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Analysis and Features
Haircare 2023: Brits commit to treating their hair
Brits splurge on home hair treatments
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Analysis and Features
Baby & infant products 2023: Babyfood’s leading five brands falter
The category has mustered value growth of just 2% on volumes down 6.1%
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Analysis and Features
Savoury pastries 2023: Shoppers ditch pastries as prices soar
Cash-strapped shoppers have put down pasties and shunned sausage rolls
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Analysis and Features
How advertisers got serious about humour: Top Campaigns 2023
i The days of earnest, purpose-driven marketing may be behind us. This year brands have turned to laughter to entice and entertain shoppers
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Analysis and Features
Face off: Top Products Survey 2023 pits brands vs own-label
It’s no longer a battle of the brands. The bigger battle, after two years of inflation, is between brands and own label. Who’s winning?
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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