All analysis & features articles – Page 78
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Analysis & FeaturesTop Products Survey 2020: How Food Came Home
We teamed up with Nielsen to review the performance of the leading brands, and own label, in 108 categories, from alcoholic drinks to tobacco, via condoms, bleach, ready meals and, of course, toilet paper
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Analysis & FeaturesDairy: yoghurts & desserts: Top Products 2020
While cheese, milk and butter have all enjoyed laudable gains this year, sales of yoghurt and potted desserts have been disappointing
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Analysis & FeaturesFrozen food: Top Products report 2020
Shoppers have sought to recreate their favourite pub and restaurant grub at home this year, and frozen has benefited
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Analysis & FeaturesTobacco: Top Products 2020
As it turned out, the ban on menthol and other flavoured tobacco barely made a dent in the market
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Analysis & FeaturesConfectionery: Chocolate: Top Products 2020
In contrast to last year’s sweet performance, this year’s sales are likely to leave a bitter taste in the mouths of suppliers
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Analysis & FeaturesBiscuits: Top Products report 2020
“Customers are looking for something that provides them with little moments of joy at home, and biscuits do just that”
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Analysis & FeaturesConfectionery: Sugar: Top Products 2020
Both branded and own-label gum are suffering, with volumes down by 18.2% and 19.3% respectively
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Analysis & FeaturesCakes: Top Products report 2020
In a year of home baking and little to celebrate, value went flat
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Analysis & FeaturesDairy: butters & spreads: Can butter keep its gloss next year?
Can butters, spreads and margarine expect another golden year in 2021? Or are hopes for further growth likely to melt away?
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Analysis & FeaturesBrexit: Three ways an EU trade deal could make all the difference for food and drink
Many changes are locked in, but key issues remain at stake
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Analysis & FeaturesHow Ronald Kers has driven recovery at 2 Sisters
Kers has worked with 2 Sisters founder Ranjit Singh to turn the processor’s fortunes around and create ‘the leading poultry-plus business’
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Analysis & FeaturesWhitehall Power List: how the political landscape has changed with Covid and Brexit
The key figures who have emerged to drive through not only their own interests, but in some cases those of the entire country
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Analysis & FeaturesWith mixed results at best does Plastics Pact itself need repackaging?
The UK Plastics Pact was launched in 2018 to create a circular economy for plastics. Two years on, results are proving a mixed bag
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Analysis & Features5 new food & drink products enriched with vitamin D
Following reports that it reduces the risk of catching coronavirus, the so-called ‘sunshine vitamin’ is popping up in a raft of new launches
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Analysis & FeaturesCoronavirus business rates relief: which supermarkets are handing it back?
Here’s the list of supermarkets that have agreed to give it back – and the ones that are staying quiet on the issue
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Analysis & FeaturesCarbon emissions: what are food & drink companies committing to?
Nestlé set out plans this week to invest £2.6bn to eliminate all emissions from its supply chain by 2050
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Analysis & FeaturesWhy is Amazon suddenly seeing big growth in booze?
The online titan has been laying the groundwork for some time
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Analysis & FeaturesCould the vulnerable be left out in online Christmas shopping surge?
As demand for deliveries rises at Christmas, many disabled and vulnerable shoppers are finding it hard to secure delivery slots
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Analysis & FeaturesWaitrose’s 2021 Food & Drink report: the top stats, facts and findings
Consumers are doubling-down on support for British produce, according to the report
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Analysis & FeaturesCan personalised nutrition finally go mainstream?
The idea of bespoke nutrition products tailored to our DNA has been around for decades. Can a pandemic – and a raft of innovative startups – finally propel it into the mainstream?