All analysis & features articles – Page 214
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Analysis & FeaturesSport brands beef up on protein boom
What’s big, bulging and increasingly in your face?
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Analysis & FeaturesPrice cuts hit beer as cider sales go flat
It’s all gone pear shaped in cider. Once the category darling, cider shrunk by value and volume
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Analysis & FeaturesBig cheese squeeze costs brands dear
Who’d be a branded cheese supplier? Combined branded volumes have inched up 0.8%, but it’s come at a price: value has sunk 1.6%, contributing £18.5m to the market’s £68.9m loss (the 10th biggest category decline of the year).
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Analysis & FeaturesBitter winter brings boost for flu brand
Cold & flu medicine suppliers got their Scrooge-like wish in 2014/15
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Analysis & FeaturesGiants clash as bottled water booms
The UK soft drinks sector is a land of giants
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Analysis & FeaturesLosses widen for BSM as promos soar
Butters & spreads have had the eighth greatest loss of the year
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Analysis & FeaturesNut butter up as health nuts seek protein
The nation is going nuts. Sales of nut butters have soared in 2015
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Analysis & FeaturesPowerbrushes put the buzz into oral care
At last, reason to smile! “We’re on the verge of an oral care revolution…”
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Analysis & FeaturesReformulation of the year: Cadbury
When Kraft bought Cadbury in 2012, chocolate fans feared the worst…
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Analysis & FeaturesChilli sauces turn up heat on ketchup
Table sauces are on the slide. The sector has put nearly £12m less through the tills in the past year, a 2.2% decline; condiments & pickles are also in bad shape, having lost 5.6%.
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Analysis & FeaturesConditioners clean up with new scents
The performance of fabric conditioners is a masterclass in restoring value
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Analysis & FeaturesMe-toos lose in household spring clean
The threat of range rationalisation looms large in household
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Analysis & FeaturesGrocers enjoy condoms and lube growth
Brits want more in the bedroom. Just not necessarily more sex
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Analysis & FeaturesDark market weighs down indie sales
The recovering economy has had little impact on the purchasing habits of smokers
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Analysis & FeaturesStinking year for deodorant as soap slides
Sales of grooming products are looking less than spruce as the multiples lose ground to cheaper rivals such as the pound stores.
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Analysis & FeaturesFizz is flying as still wine takes a dive
Looking for grocery’s most sparkling sector? You’ve found it
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Analysis & FeaturesCan grocers keep pace as e-cigs evolve?
By most category standards, e-cigarettes is still a booming market
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