All analysis & features articles – Page 170
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Analysis & FeaturesBabyfood bust up spans from EU to Beijing
It’s been an unpredictable 2016, but Ella’s Kitchen still dominates the babyfood category
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Analysis & FeaturesCoke crashes as sugar back lash grows
Life has been very tough for fizzy pop purveyors this year
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Analysis & FeaturesCould Brexit backfire for fizz drinkers?
Boris Johnson says Italy will flog less Prosecco in Britain if no tariff-free trade is thrashed out between the two countries
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Analysis & FeaturesBrexit and bad harvest hit oil prices
Much-needed growth has returned to the flagging oils category. But it’s largely been down to inflation
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Analysis & FeaturesBagged snack sharing deals impact value
The familiar narrative of Brits ditching fried potato crisps in favour of alternatives isn’t quite so cut and dried
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Analysis & FeaturesBiscuits take a bashing as sales crumble
Brits have reined in spend when it comes to biscuits, with £25.5m wiped off category value
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Analysis & FeaturesThe hard cell: battery price rises on NPD
Sure, the numbers are flat, but they belie big changes in the batteries market
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Analysis & FeaturesA blinder for beer as cider brands sour
Don’t let the fact that food & drink’s fastest falling brand is a lager (Carlsberg, down £73.6m) fool you
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Analysis & FeaturesBrexit and the big fat choccy challenge
There are some big bust-ups bubbling away in confectionery
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Analysis & FeaturesHealthy lines steal a bigger slice of cakes
Cake sales have gone soggy. The £30.4m rise we reported a year ago is a distant memory
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Analysis & FeaturesHeinz toils as soup lovers go off the boil
It would be easy to blame the weather for all of soup’s woes, what with last winter being the third warmest on record
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Analysis & FeaturesAs happy as a pig in ...? Pork pastry booms
Premium savoury pastry players must be as happy as pigs in the proverbial right now
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Analysis & FeaturesNappies and loo rolls hit rock bottom
It’s truly been a race to the bottom for paper products this past year
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Analysis & FeaturesRange resets crush canned branded sales
As canned food’s losses accelerated this year, the sector’s biggest brands piled high and sold cheap
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Analysis & FeaturesCould Brexit end the era of cheap bread?
Prices could be about to change direction, says Warburtons innovation director Darren Littler
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Analysis & FeaturesCereals miss out on breakfast's rebirth
Breakfast is back! Fewer people are giving their morning meal a miss, we revealed earlier this year
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Analysis & FeaturesBrits fork out for healthier ready meals
Slimming World has piled on the pounds – £23.9m to be exact, the greatest gain of any ready meal brand in the past year
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Analysis & FeaturesAs BSM slides is 'Sprexit' on the cards?
It’s time for Sprexit. So said City analysts SocGen in July as they urged Unilever to sell off its struggling spreads
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Analysis & FeaturesMeat smoked by low prices & cancer link
Bacon was dealt a heavy blow by last year’s WHO report linking processed meats to cancer
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Analysis & FeaturesCan sugarless sweets really rescue candy?
Supermarket sweet sales have fallen £18.5m, with 32.4 million fewer packs sold in the past year