All Confectionery articles – Page 109

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    Starburst in new formats

    2002-07-13T00:00:00Z

    Masterfoods is adding three new confectionery products to its Starburst portfolio and backing the brand with a £4m media budget this year. Rolling out now, the newcomers offer the brand's signature fruit flavours in different formats. ...

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    Hole new look for an icon

    2002-06-22T00:00:00Z

    Nestle Rowntree is refreshing its iconic Polo mint brand with a more modern look. The move is also being backed by the "biggest ever package for the brand" including two new TV ads to be aired during August and September. Available from July...

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    Bites: Energizer; Haribo; Crystal Drinks; Discovery Foods

    2002-06-22T00:00:00Z

    Energizer will sponsor European indoor athletics events until August 2001. Finlay's Foods and Haribo (Austria) is introducing gelatine free vegetarian Gummi confectionery. Crystal Drinks has added organic cola and lemonade to its range. ...

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    Bites: Quality Street; Nutri-Grain Elevenses; Rowse Honey; Caledonian Clear

    2002-06-22T00:00:00Z

    Nestlé's revamped Quality Street hit shelves this week, as did Mars' new Galaxy Silk Collection.

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    Bites: Van den Bergh Foods; Mr Lazenby's; Wrigleys; Chupa Chups

    2002-06-22T00:00:00Z

    Van den Bergh Foods is running a £1.6m one-week promotion (from March 18) for olive oil spread Olivio, part of an £11m spend this year.

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    Bites: Nestlé Rowntree's Bursting Bugs; Twinings; Bakers Complete; Loyd Grossman

    2002-06-22T00:00:00Z

    Nestlé Rowntree's Bursting Bugs, available in store this week, make their TV debut on August 4 in a four-week ad burst ­ part of a £5m spend on the Rowntree brand.

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    Bites: Nestle Rowntree; RH Amar; Golden Wonder's; Highland Spring

    2002-06-22T00:00:00Z

    Nestle Rowntree confectionery brand Munchies is to sponsor the Great Britian Women's Rugby league team in a deal which includes branding kits with the brand's new straplines including "Scoff me" and "Nibble me".

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    Bites: McNeil Consumer Nutritionals; Kraft Foods' Dairylea Lunchables; Aero Snow

    2002-06-22T00:00:00Z

    McNeil Consumer Nutritionals is adding a reduced fat olive oil spread to its Benecol portfolio and replacing the cream cheese spreads with lower fat versions. Two pizza variants - ham and cheese and pepperoni and cheese - have joined Kraft Foods'...

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    Cadbury Trebor Bassett eyes potential of some 283,000 foods

    2002-06-22T00:00:00Z

    Sian Harrington Cadbury Trebor Bassett is ramping up investment in foodservice in a bid to grow the stagnant confectionery market. The company, formed a year ago from the merger of Cadbury and Trebor Bassett, believes the sector offers one...

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    Fruity goings on as Nestlé Rowntree pushes brand into cereal

    2002-05-25T00:00:00Z

    Nestlé Rowntree is taking its Rowntree fruit confectionery brand into unusual territory with two new products aimed at adults, including a cereal bar. Off the blocks on June 3, the new yogurt-coated fruit and cereal bar, called Fruitsome, and Fruit...

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    New look for After Eight as clock ticks towards Nestlé's Chr

    2002-05-11T00:00:00Z

    Nestlé Rowntree has become the latest confectionery giant to unveil its offering for retailers and consumers at Christmas. Top of the tree this time round is a revamp for perennial star performer After Eight with the boxed wafer chocolate mints...

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    Nestlé Rowntree is launching three new hanging bags under th

    2002-04-27T00:00:00Z

    Germolene has introduced new Bites & Sting Spray to its product portfolio. Consumers are to get the chance to win a Scandinavian style outdoor hot tub Jacuzzi spa in an on-pack promotion for Utterly Butterly Scandinavian style. Ashborne...

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    Starburst Splits

    2002-04-20T00:00:00Z

    Rsp: 37p for single split pot Eden Vale will continue to supply the Starburst products from Nestlé's confectionery rival Masterfoods. Launched in October, sales of this fruit yogurt with separate serving of tangy fruit purée were highest in...

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    Yorkie barred as council's humour fails

    2002-04-20T00:00:00Z

    Nestlé Rowntree has been banned by a council from handing out Yorkie bars following complaints that its advertising campaign is sexist. Representatives from the firm were handing out Yorkies to men only in Liverpool city centre when a female...

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    PLAYING SKITTLES WITH BUFFY

    2002-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Skittles Sours are to sponsor the sixth series of cult teenage TV drama Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The series is predicted to attract more than a million viewers a week as it is aired on Sky One this month and next. An animated Skittles Sour...

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    Special has extra choc

    2002-03-30T00:00:00Z

    Mars' new look is being extended to drinks with a special edition Mars Extra Choc milk drink. Sporting the same new livery as the parent countline chocolate bar (as exclusively revealed in The Grocer, March 16), the new drink boasts 40% extra...

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    Werthers Original Grandad

    2002-03-16T00:00:00Z

    Created by: Pahnke (Hamburg) Launched: 1992 A series of grandads and their grandsons has graced TV screens since the launch of this unashamedly sentimental ad series. Grandad bestows an abundance of love, affection and wisdom on the nipper, which...

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    a new bite at the bar

    2002-03-16T00:00:00Z

    n As exclusively revealed in The Grocer this week, Masterfoods has ambitious plans to reposition its iconic Mars bar, including a new slogan and logo. But will the move claw back sales? Simon Mowbray reports Few things in this life are certain but...

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    The Mars bar was born in 1932 when young American entreprene

    2002-03-16T00:00:00Z

    More than two million bars were made in the first year, each selling for 2d.Today, new parent company Masterfoods, an amalgamation of the Mars confectionery and petfood businesses, prides itself on keeping that price constant, claiming that the...

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    Budweiser 10 x 207ml Price promotion £4.49 Floor stack

    2002-03-16T00:00:00Z

    Cadbury's Chocolate Fingers 125/150g 2 for £1.50 Side stack Asda Cadbury's Chocolate Fingers 125/150g Buy one get one free Gondola end Morrisons Cadbury's Roses 480g 2 for ...