All Top Products articles – Page 30
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Analysis & FeaturesReady meals: Horsegate still haunts the category
Almost two years on from the first discovery, and ready meals are still haunted by Horsegate…
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Analysis & FeaturesConfectionery: Kinder Magic trumps even CDM's strong growth in confectionery as chocolate sales divide
Mars and Nestlé execs could be excused for feeling a little bitter at the success of their rivals in 2014…
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Analysis & FeaturesIce cream: Champagne celebrations for Magnum
Although temperatures have soared on occasion this year, it’s often been at the wrong time for ice cream consumption…
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Analysis & FeaturesCereals: perfect storm proves a real cereal killer
It’s crunch time for cereals. A perfect storm of deflation, changing consumer habits, the ongoing sugar debate and a lack …
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Analysis & FeaturesSoup: warm weather puts soup out in the cold
Soup is in hot water. A mild winter and hot summer have dragged both value (–7.9%) and volumes (–9%) down…
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Analysis & FeaturesLaundry: Comfort flies as sector goes soft on scents
Brits bought 12 million fewer kilos of detergent from the supermarkets in 2014, a fall of 3.6%…
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Analysis & FeaturesE-cigarettes: vaping craze transforms e-cig market
The e-cigarette category is not only one of the most controversial and talked-about categories in grocery right now…
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Analysis & FeaturesPaper products: loo roll goes down the pan in price war
The discounters and online giant Amazon are wiping the floor with the supermarkets when it comes to paper products…
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Analysis & FeaturesTobacco: rising duty pushes smokers to economy-brand and RYO
With the spectre of plain packaging looming ever larger and the final piece of the display ban puzzle…
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Analysis & FeaturesPetcare: treats fail to halt slide in sales
Not as bright-eyed and bushy-tailed as last year, petcare sales have slipped 0.8% in value on volumes down 3.1%…
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Analysis & FeaturesFresh fruit & veg: Lettuce takes greatest hit in veggie war
Fresh produce is a major weapon in the war between the discounters and the major mults, and the damage is plain to see…
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Analysis & FeaturesJams & spreads: Nutella wins in a slow year
What sugar debate? Spreads seem unscathed by the controversy over Britain’s expanding waistlines…
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Analysis & FeaturesAlcohol: Prosecco tops an uplifting year for alcoholic drinks
Heroes emerge from the unlikeliest of places at times of war. In the price war, they’ve stepped out of the booze aisles…
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Analysis & FeaturesFree-from: hitting the big time as sales boom to half a billion
Free from has come of age, blasting through the £500m barrier for the first time, in 2014…
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Analysis & FeaturesSports nutrition: market bulked up by smaller impulse lines
Supermarkets are in dire need of a shot in the arm. But there’s one sector in which they’re looking rather ripped…
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NewsBiscuits: McVitie's up 5% but biscuit and cereal bar sales crumble
What a difference a year makes. Twelve months ago, breakfast was the most important meal of the day for biscuits in terms …
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Analysis & FeaturesSoft drinks: war on sugar sours juice sector sales
If you’re looking for a casualty from the war on sugar, you’ve found it. While carbonates, energy drinks and sweets escaped relatively lightly, juices & smoothies have been hammered. Value has slumped £69.4m (3.5%) on volumes down 6.5%, with own label’s long-term decline gathering pace to nearly double the rate ...
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Analysis & FeaturesTop launch: Super Smoothies by Innocent
Innocent has big ambitions for the functional fruit & veg drinks it launched in March – setting out a two-year sales target of £30m. There’s no denying Super Smoothies is a compelling proposition – combining the strength of the Innocent brand with good-looking products featuring fruit, vitamins and ingredients ...
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NewsSmirnoff, Walkers and Coca-Cola - Britain's best sellers
New research for The Grocer has revealed the best-selling individual products in Britain’s supermarkets…
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Comment & OpinionTop Products Survey 2013 provides examples of success
We are at a pivotal moment. There’s all to play for: resting on the next few days are budgets, bonuses, careers…