All analysis & features articles – Page 169
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Analysis & FeaturesDumbest discounter of the year: EasyFoodstore
EasyFood is comfortably one of the oddest extensions for someone who has always shown business savvy
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Analysis & FeaturesSocial media froth of the year: Sainsbury's #sandwichgate
Woe betide anyone that comes between a Brit and their sandwich
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Analysis & FeaturesIntrigue of the year: what did Ronny do wrong?
Lidl replaced charismatic German with 34-year-old Härtnagel
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Analysis & FeaturesShrinker of the year: Toblerone loses triangles
Tabloids have been obsessed with chocolate’s vanishing act for years
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Analysis & FeaturesSports food & drink nears £100m mark
Sports nutrition is in the midst of an identity crisis, no longer the sole preserve of pumped up gym bros
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Analysis & FeaturesPricier fruit drives £175m fresh growth
Supermarkets are still piling it high and selling it cheap
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Analysis & FeaturesDurex stands proud as sex care rises £2m
Sex in the supermarkets is all about one brand: Durex, which has a 75% share of condoms, lubes and sex device sales
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Analysis & FeaturesYoghurt loses 200m litres in sugar war
Things have soured in yoghurts in the past year, as the amount of sugar many products contain has come under growing scrutiny
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Analysis & FeaturesTop Products Survey 2016: The Great British Brexit Bust-up
Given the plunge in the pound, Top Products suppliers are now grappling with escalated pricing tensions
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Analysis & FeaturesBad hair year as haircare slumps £23m
You’d think British locks are losing their lustre. Sales of shampoo, conditioners and styling products have fallen £23.3m
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Analysis & FeaturesE-cigs surge £30m as new rules looms
The e-cigarette market might not quite be enjoying the stellar growth of a few years ago but it’s up 20%
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Analysis & FeaturesIce cream up £32m as Brits go for luxury
Thanks partly to the twin heatwaves Britain enjoyed this summer, an extra £31.7m of ice cream was shifted
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Analysis & FeaturesMen fork out £5m less on grooming
The decline of metrosexual man and rise of the bearded hipster has intensified pressure
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Analysis & FeaturesSupers drive £68m surge in makeup
If any sector appears out of the reach of Aldi and Lidl, this is it
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Analysis & FeaturesOral care all white as sales surge by £7m
At last – reason to smile in the struggling personal care sector!…
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Analysis & FeaturesFrozen goes posh in push to add value
Looking for a sector that has defied the deflation seen in grocery over the past year?
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Analysis & FeaturesCould Brexit end the age of cheap tea?
Brexit is brewing trouble for tea brands. While some predict price hikes, others can only see uncertainty in the tea leaves
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Analysis & FeaturesAircare the only winner in household
Perhaps nowhere has the rise of the discounter stunted value growth more than in the household goods sector
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Analysis & FeaturesLaundry: major players hope it will all come out in the wash
It was a year in which £83m was wiped off sales and only one of the top five detergents achieved growth
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Analysis & FeaturesAnchor sinks in big cheese spring clean
Retailers have been swinging the axe at their cheese ranges this past year, creating big winners and even bigger losers