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  • News

    Premium gift NPD by Green & Black’s

    2011-10-22T00:00:00Z

    Green & Black’s products have broken through the £10 price point for the first time in five years with a new gift range.

  • News

    Focus On Soup: The age of the liquid lunch

    2011-10-22T00:00:00Z

    Bad weather last winter had soup makers rubbing their hands in glee, but they didn’t take their foot off the NPD gas. Hannah Stodell looks at a category brimming with innovation

  • GOLDEN WONDER XMAS NOODLE
    News

    Golden Wonder puts Christmas dinner in a pot noodle format

    2011-10-21T00:00:00Z

    Even kitchen-shy students can get an early taste of Christmas this year from a limited-edition Christmas dinner-flavoured pot noodle snack. The festive version of Golden Wonder: The Nation's Noodle which even comes with a sachet of...

  • STEVIA-IN-THE-RAW
    News

    US stevia suppliers set to turn up heat in sweetener sector

    2011-10-15T00:00:00Z

    More American suppliers of stevia-based products have set their sights firmly on the UK market. Sweetener brand Stevia in the Raw and soft drink Zevia, two of a host of businesses showing stevia-based lines at the Anuga food and drink...

  • WONDERFUL-PISTACHIOS
    News

    Wonderful to ‘wake sleeping giant’ with listings and TV push

    2011-10-15T00:00:00Z

    Wonderful Pistachios is aiming to boost the size of the nuts market with its first UK TV push and second listing at a big four ­supermarket. The brand which is owned by US company Roll Global has been selling 150g bags of unsalted,...

  • CAKES BISCUITS OCT 11
    News

    Focus On Cakes & Biscuits: Let them eat biscuits

    2011-10-15T00:00:00Z

    Own label is having its cake and eating it, but in the biscuit barrel brands are on top – with the upshot that biscuit sales are outgrowing those of cake. Samantha Lyster reports

  • News

    Focus On Cakes & Biscuits: Innovations

    2011-10-15T00:00:00Z

    These brightly-decorated balls of cake made their debut at the Speciality & Fine Food Fair this year. PopKakery co-founder Melissa Damjanovic developed the idea in America before importing it to the UK.

  • News

    Focus On Cakes & Biscuits: McVitie's signs up to the cult of Jaffa

    2011-10-15T00:00:00Z

    This July, Jaffa Cakes launched its biggest digital effort yet. Activity centred on two microsites, 'Cult of Jaffa' and 'The Jaffa Cake Broadcasting Corporation' - one inviting fans to help protect Jaffa Cakes from the likes of the House of Garibaldi, the other a spoof news site, and both fully ...

  • News

    Irwin’s Irish Batch Bread rolls into Asda

    2011-10-15T00:00:00Z

    Northern Irish bakery Irwin's has won its first listing in England for its Irish Batch bread. The bread, rolling into 150 Asda stores across England now, is made using traditional recipes and is not baked in individual tins but at the...

  • NICOLA-HAINIE
    Profiles and QandAs

    My Alternative CV: Nicola Hainie, technical manager at Border Biscuits

    2011-10-15T00:00:00Z

    Nicola Hainie, technical manager at Border Biscuits, on in-store sampling, deep fried Mars bars and  Ace of Base

  • SAKATA
    News

    Sakata aims to repeat Oz success story in UK

    2011-10-15T00:00:00Z

    PepsiCo is bringing a taste of the Orient to the UK with a new range of Japanese rice crackers. The Sakata Rice Crackers brand, worth almost £33m in Australia, has hit UK shelves for the first time in a trial at Waitrose. The four-strong...

  • JELLY-BEANS-CART
    News

    Holland & Barrett adds sweet sense of theatre to new store

    2011-10-15T00:00:00Z

    Holland & Barrett is pushing further into traditional grocery categories with a trial of pick’n’mix and novel food dispensers at its largest-ever new store in Richmond. The 2,600 sq ft shop, which opened this week, features peanut…

  • News

    Warburtons takes first steps outside UK with Euro-friendly loves

    2011-10-11T12:51:00Z

    Warburtons has expanded outside the UK for the first time by launching into Tesco stores in four central European countries. The baker has worked with Tesco’s group food sourcing team – which sources products that could work across the retailer’s global business – to tailor seven Warburtons-branded lines for the European market. They include a white Toastie loaf, fruit bread, brown bread, crumpets and English muffins.

  • SKIPS
    News

    Skips and Nik Naks get a flavour update

    2011-10-08T00:00:00Z

    Skips and Nik Naks are ­being relaunched in a bid to ­revive declining sales. The brands are being given new pack designs that includes a range of 46p price-marked handy packs and a flash to highlight the 82-calories content of Skips….

  • JOHN-WEST-TUNA-MAN
    News

    John West campaign to play up provenance

    2011-10-08T00:00:00Z

    After coming seventh out of eight in Greenpeace’s 2011 tinned tuna league ­table, John West is boosting its tuna sourcing credentials with a new online feature that allows shoppers to trace each can back to the boat it came from.

  • TASTY-LITTLE-NUMBERS
    News

    Tasty Little Numbers calorie count

    2011-10-08T00:00:00Z

    First it was the round pound. Now retailers have the option to stock the round-calorie. The new Tasty Little Numbers brand which comprises bagged snacks, chocolate bars and snack pots that contain exactly 100 or 200 calories is taking…

  • CRUNCHIE-BISCUIT
    News

    Boom for Burton’s: profits triple despite commodity crunch

    2011-10-08T00:00:00Z

    Burton’s Foods shrugged off rising cocoa and dairy prices in 2010 to more than triple its profits. The maker of Cadbury Fingers, Jammie Dodgers and Maryland Cookies ­reported profits of £13.1m for the year to 1 January 2011 compared with…

  • BIRTHDAY-COUNTDOWN
    News

    Chocolate countdown to birthdays

    2011-10-08T00:00:00Z

    A British company has developed what it claims is the first seven-day chocolate calendar for counting down kids’ birthdays. Supermarket listings are being sought for The 7 Days To Go! calendar (rsp: £2.99), which contains seven pieces of…

  • SOY-SAUCE
    News

    SeeWoo woos Asda with sauce - and oil

    2011-10-08T00:00:00Z

    The wholesaler SeeWoo has gained its first supermarket listing with Asda, as it strives to become a “category champion” for oriental foods. Three SeeWoo products have made it on to Asda shelves: a chilli oil from its Way-On brand and…

  • News

    Lidl set to roll out bakeries to all stores

    2011-10-08T00:00:00Z

    Lidl shoppers could soon be snapping up bargains amid the heady aroma of freshly baked bread. The German discounter is poised to begin rolling out in-store bakeries across all of its 580 UK stores after successful trials in Newcastle. A…