All Confectionery articles – Page 115
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Receiver pulls plug on Greenleaf at Devon Desserts
Greenleaf Products has attacked Grant Thornton's decision to plunge Devon Desserts back into receivership. Greenleaf md Michael Cole claimed receiver Grant Thornton provided little warning before it repossessed Devon Desserts' factory: "We've been...
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The McLelland cheese company is sticking its Safe Sex Danger
I was going to buy my girlfriend some cheese for St Valentine's Day instead of roses do you think it's a good idea? That's very sweet. It's certainly different. What kind of effect can I expect if she eats it? They say eating cheese before ...
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Uniq recruits Ronald to turn it around
Bill Ronald, former managing director of Mars Confectionery, is joining the troubled Uniq group as chief executive officer. Ronald, 46, and a high profile figure in the food industry, left Mars late last year when the group's food and petcare...
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MILKY BAR ADULTS
Nestlé Rowntree is to expand its white chocolate Milkybar brand's adult portfolio with the launch of Milkybar Munchies. On shelf from March15, they will be backed by a £3m media package the brand's biggest since the launch of Milkybar Buttons in...
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Lighter ice cream with Maltesers
Maltesers is the latest Masterfoods confectionery brand to jump into the freezer. Maltesers ice cream stick is the sole addition to its 2002 ice cream range. This year the company ditched four lines from its range, recommending just 12 lines for...
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Masterfoods, as it is now known, moved some of its Mars conf
The Twix, Bounty, Snickers Mars and M&Ms tubs had £2.5m of advertising all to themselves and also benefited from a £3.5m spend across the ice cream range in addition to the individual confectionery brands' budgets. Sales Mars ice cream tubs...
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Cadbury's on cracking form with a Creme Egg ice cream
Mary Carmichael Perennial confectionery part-timer Cadbury's Creme Egg is boosting the value of its spring-only lifespan by moving into ice cream with a six-week limited edition. The surprise newcomer is part of the new 2002 Cadbury branded ice...
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Twix raises its fingers to Cadbury
Masterfoods' Twix brand is set to go head to head with biscuit category big-hitter Cadbury's Fingers thanks to the launch of its second biscuit product, Twixels. Available next month, the slender caramel-topped and chocolate-coated biscuit sticks...
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The Co-operative Group has achieved Investors in People stat
Chocolate retailer and manufacturer Thorntons posted a 4.1% rise in like-for-like sales in the 28 weeks to January 12. Total sales were up 3% to £102.4m. Northern c-store chain Mills Group posted a 13.5% rise in like-for-like sales in the four...
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Nestlé Rowntree is offering consumers more chocolate for the
Sugar Puffs has teamed up with UCI Cinemas for a promotion aimed at creating monster' sales for the brand. The instantly redeemable cinema ticket promotion will give consumers a free UCI Cinema ticket voucher and is incorporated on to the back of...
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KitKat: Have a Break, have a Kit Kat'
Created by: J Walter Thompson Launched: 1957 The break theme made a brief appearance in 1939 but wasn't used regularly until the 1950s. A catchphrase of genius, it has lent itself to hundreds of situations, including in 2001 alone a moth...
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Birth of Little Rolo
Nestlé Rowntree is extending its Rolo portfolio with the launch of Little Rolo. Aimed at teenage girls and young women, 40g and 200g bags (rsp: 32p and £1.15) of the new variant are available from January 14. Graham Walker, Nestlé Rowntree's sales...
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Nestlé Rowntree has put its Megabeans into a 175g hanging ba
Frozen vegetable based foods specialist Goodlife Foods has revamped packaging and improved recipes across its range. New products are planned for later in the year. Sweet chilli is the first of a new range of marinated crayfish tails from the...
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Becks 24 x 275ml Price promotion £11.99 Floor sStack
Becks 24 x 275ml Price promotion £12.49 Floor stack Tesco Cadbury's Chocolate Mousse 4 x 55g Price promotion 79p Gondola end Safeway Cadbury's Dairy Milk 200g 50% ...
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Old favourites dress to kill while the giants wrestle over a
Some old favourite brands got dressed up this year. Schweppes mixers and Nescafé both got their first packaging revamp in 20 years, while four-finger Kit Kat and Cadbury Dairy Milk both had shiny new flow-wrap outfits. Hovis loaves sported new...
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A warmer summer encouraged a 3% rise in sales. This has been
Brand extensions have become commonplace, with both Mars and Cadbury launching 451-500ml sized tubs. Cadbury launched Crunchie, Dairy Milk, Heavenly Vanilla and Caramel in September 2000, while Mars brought out Mars, Snickers, Twix, M&M's and...
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Mars' sweeter Easter parade
Simon Mowbray Mars is aiming to crack open a bigger share of next year's Easter egg market by introducing 10 new products and revamping 11 of its existing favourites. Among those debuting in the Spring will be an adult Maltesers Crispy Egg and...
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Mars boxes clever with its celebrations for Diwali
Mars is using its Celebrations boxed chocolate brand to mark Diwali, next week's Hindu festival of light', The confectioner has produced more than one million Diwali stickers for the occasion which is celebrated on Wednesday (November 14). The...