Archive of all analysis and features articles – Page 202
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Festive alcohol price hikes help ease supermarket deflation
A rise in the price of festive booze helped overall supermarket deflation ease for the first time since the summer
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Satfats confuse consumers more than sugar, survey reveals
Eighty-three per cent of consumers are flummoxed by nutritional advice on fats, according to a survey for The Grocer
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Forest Feast Street Food - Koh Samui Thai Spice: Acid Test
Street food has been one of the major trends of eating out in recent years
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Coffee supply crisis reports played down
Coffee suppliers and commodities experts have played down fears of an impending “coffee crisis”
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Discounter pressure on big four will continue
Look away, big four. The suffering will continue. At least for a while
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Christmas trading redeemed by last-minute shopping
A late rush to the aisles before Christmas looks to have saved the festive period for the beleaguered grocery sector
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Sugar prices reach 10-month high
Sugar prices reached a 10-month high in November
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Flood impact will be felt for months, warn logistics experts
Grocery is “praying for the rain to stop” after floods in the North
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Share price winners and losers in 2015: from Fever-Tree to Tesco
Soft drinks plc lifts the spirits, while Sainsbury’s picks on one of the many depressed retail and supplier stocks
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All the news you missed over the Christmas break
There was no turkey-induced slumber in the grocery world over the holiday with the dailies reporting on big stories
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Sugar bad, lard good? How the role of fat in diet is changing
The received wisdom around fat – and in particular dairy and animal fat – has been turned on its head
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Star Wars awakens sales of movie-based toys
2015 was the year in which films “re-established themselves as firm favourites for the licensing industry”
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Bear shows the value of good assets in a sellers' market
Christmas came early for Bear founders Hayley and Andrew Gait-Golding and their partner Giles Brook as the trio sold the business to Lotus for more than £70m.
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Top Products Survey 2015
It’s our biggest ever Top Products Survey, covering 967 products in 112 categories, worth £110bn
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Pricier packs drive value in babyfood
It’s been another challenging year for the ever-controversial babyfood category
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Deeper deals take big slice of bread sales
Few have escaped unscathed from the battlefield of the wrapped bread market
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Birds Eye Inspirations Tortilla Chilli & Lime Fish Fillets
Birds Eye first launched its premium Inspirations range in March 2014
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Sweet biccies crumble as savoury flies
2015 was the year of the savoury baked snack
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Ambient food gets canned as prices fall
The performance of the UK canned food sector continues to look decidedly crumpled
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Baked snacks rise as crisp sales crumble
Crunch. That’s the sound of baked snacks heavyweights encroaching on crisps’ territory