All The Grocer articles in 19 December 2015 – Page 5
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Analysis & Features
Breakfast skippers cost cereals £70m
Cereals, like corn flakes left to soak for too long, have gone soggy
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Analysis & Features
Pasta goes off the boil while rice adds £5m
Nice and easy, that’s how consumers like their carbs
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Analysis & Features
Sauces in a stew as sales slump £40m
If the Dolmio puppets’ smiles have seemed a little forced this year, there’s good reason
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Analysis & Features
Price warfare wipes £337m off meat sales
Just over half of Aldi and Lidl’s incremental sales came from fresh food this year
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Analysis & Features
Fruit flies as veggie sales crash £317m
More than half a billion pounds has been wiped off supermarket fresh food
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Analysis & Features
Milk takes a £165m hit as prices tumble
The milk sector’s bumpy ride in 2014 was a walk in the park compared with the travails of the past year
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Analysis & Features
What recall? Free from up a cool £100m
Free-from continues to charge ahead like a freight train
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Analysis & Features
Poor summer washes £10m off ice cream
What a washout! Ice cream sales have melted away
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Analysis & Features
Oil prices slip as coconut enters top 10
Cooking oil, hair conditioner, teeth whitening… is there no end to coconut oil’s uses?
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News
Bear snapped up in £70m deal as Lotus eyes global rollout
Urban Fresh Foods, the owner of fast-growth kids snacking brand Bear, has been acquired by Lotus Bakeries in a deal worth more than £70m, The Grocer can reveal.
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Analysis & Features
Drinkers have never had it so good
And what’s good for drinkers is good for retailers
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Analysis & Features
Craft brands and cocktails lift the spirits
This ought to lift a few spirits: sales of the hard stuff are flying
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Comment & Opinion
PetDen has potential, but dogs in store could cause a slip-up for Tesco
PetDen has the potential to be a triumph – but it has potential, too, to be a disaster
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News
Wholesalers withdraw sale of 'inhumane' glue rodent traps
Wholesalers bow to pressure over glue-based rodent traps
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News
Magnum back on Easter shelves for third year running
Magnum is adding a £5 Easter egg in January to join the Marmite and Pot Noodle eggs
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News
Sainsbury's takes the lead as most mults hike promotions
The big four are cutting more prices in an attempt to regain ground before the year’s end
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News
Morrisons changes Milk for Farmers label after criticism
The retailer says it plans to launch additional SKUs in 2016
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My Alternative CV
Flo Broughton, Choc on Choc, on business, cashflow and snakes
I make chocolate – but my mates all know it as they have lived through all the dramas with me
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News
D2 International lines up Scooby-Doo sweets and biscuits
D2 International hopes to jazz up the sweet and biscuit category with three new Scooby-Doo-themed products
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Comment & Opinion
Virtual key to a shopping evolution
Change is coming for the supermarket shopping experience, as augmented reality finds a global fan base