All Top Products articles – Page 32
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Analysis & FeaturesLaundry: Conditioners bring comfort to detergent category
As value and volume sales of detergents drained away, fabric conditioners enjoyed a renaissance…
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Analysis & FeaturesConfectionery has a sweet and sour year
It’s been a sweet and sour year for sugar…
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Analysis & FeaturesCooking sauces slump as more cook from scratch
Inspired by celeb chefs, more and more of us are cooking from scratch. And it’s hitting cooking sauces hard…
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Analysis & FeaturesOTC: Sniffles and coughs help sales flourish
That long, cold winter followed by a blistering summer has given over the counter a much-needed shot in the arm…
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Analysis & FeaturesIce cream: lolly sales soar in summer heat, but tubs stand still
Ice cream has been a game of two halves – the hot summer fuelled a boom in handheld, while tubs were left on the (freezer)…
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Analysis & FeaturesDairy drinks: Milking the return of value growth
After last year’s farmer protests and mega M&A deals, 2013 brought some much-needed calm to the milk sector…
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Analysis & FeaturesOils: Lack of rain in Spain falls mainly on oil
The lack of rainfall last year on the olive groves of Spain decimated the year’s harvest…
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Analysis & FeaturesSpreads: Marmite will hate losing to Rowse Honey
Britain’s going sweet on honey. Rowse, the country’s biggest honey brand, has ousted Marmite from the top…
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Analysis & FeaturesPasta, rice & noodles: Noodles and pots hit spot, unlike pasta
Convenience-seeking consumers have been really using their noodles this year… or more accurately eating them…
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Analysis & FeaturesPetfood sales increase sets tails wagging
The dogs had their dinner and the cats got their cream – as sales in the category returned to value and volume growth…
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Analysis & FeaturesTable sauces: Value is the new sauce of inspiration
It’s hard to maintain growth in a high-penetration category like table sauces and condiments, but both top brands have man…
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Analysis & FeaturesTobacco: Tailormades lose share to rolling tobacco
In the world of non-electric cigarettes, hand rolling tobacco (HRT) has once again been the success story of the year….
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Analysis & FeaturesSports nutrition performance slows as VAT is slapped on
For a category hit by VAT last October, sales of sports nutrition products look surprisingly healthy at first glance…
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VideosVideo: Magnum force – how one ice cream brand won the freezer
In 2013 UK consumers spent £60.8m more on ice cream than in 2012. £17.5m of that was just on one brand: Magnum. We talk to brand owner Unilever to find out more…
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Comment & OpinionBack in the saddle
Frozen ready meals have taken a real kicking over 2013. And there is one standout reason why…
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Analysis & FeaturesFrozen food: Greggs excels in a chill year for frozen
The phrase ‘victims of their own success’ usually applies to showbiz casualties, but in 2013 it also applied to sausage rolls.
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Comment & OpinionA strong future for weak beer?
Heineken predicts we’ll be spending more than half a billion quid a year on lower-abv beers and ciders by 2020. But does this burgeoning sector have a long-term future?
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Analysis & FeaturesCider hits £1bn mark but fizz offers true sparkle
What is it they say about mixing your drinks? It certainly doesn’t end well if you combine the volume losses of the ale, lager, wine, spirits and RTD sectors in the past year.
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NewsNappy sales plummet despite baby boom
Shoppers bought 128 million fewer nappies from stores in 2013 than they did a year ago – despite Britain being in the middle of a baby boom.
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Analysis & FeaturesHot beverages: Tea tanks but Twinings makes a mint
How long can Britain claim to be a nation of tea drinkers?…