All Confectionery articles – Page 116
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Mars merges UK food and petcare arms
Mars' food and petcare businesses in the UK, Mars Confectionery and Pedigree Masterfoods, are merging to form Masterfoods (Division of Mars UK Ltd). The new trading identity, it was revealed on Thursday, is effective from January. MD of the merged...
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Budgens has opened its 26th Budgens Local at a petrol foreco
Monkhill Confectionery will assume responsibility for sales and marketing of the Butterkist brand from Cadbury Trebor Bassett from January 1, 2002. Barclaycard Merchant Services is extending its pre-pay service to include the mobile phone network...
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Mars keeps
Amicelli Mars has decided to retain Amicelli boxed chocolate as a permanent line and to bring it under the Galaxy brand umbrella. Amicelli, which consists of 16 individually-wrapped, wafer-filled, chocolate covered hazelnut praline sweets,...
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Winter bites at Nestlé Rowntree
Nestlé Rowntree has created a big freeze for winter with frosty variants of Fruit Pastilles, Smarties and Milkybar Buttons for kids. Available for a "limited period only", the new variants are launched on Monday (October 22) in frosty packaging...
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Why we don't do sale-or-return
Sir; re Richard Rickard's letter (The Grocer, September 29) regarding sale-or-return on Easter eggs. At Cadbury Trebor Bassett our objective is to help independent retailers develop the total Easter confectionery category. To do this we advocate...
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TOTAL GROCERS CTNS, FORECOURTS, OFFS
VALUE SALES (£000s) BRAND AVERAGE 4 WEEKLY SALES SINCE LAUNCH* Mars Bar Big One 884.2 Kinder Bueno (single) 838.7 Galaxy Silk Collection 797.2 ...
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Mars bursts into yogurt
Mars' sugar confectionery superstar brand Starburst joins the yogurt category this week by again teaming up with Eden Vale. New Starburst Splits fruit yogurt with a separate serving of tangy fruit purée aim to build on the success of Starburst...
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Bendicks gives Werthers rivals a £5m package to chew over
Confectionery manufacturer Bendicks of Mayfair has revealed it is throwing £5m behind the new toffee extension to its Werther's Original brand. The giant spend includes two 20-second TV commercials for Werther's Original Chewy Toffees, the first of...
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Harry eggs set for Easter
Mars could be heading for its most magical Easter ever with the launch of at least one, and probably several, Harry Potter eggs. Mars has paid an undisclosed sum for the right to produce chocolate and sweets based on the boy wizard's adventures,...
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wraps come off the Newcomers
Where confectionery countlines seem to regard brand extensions and limited editions as the major elements of innovation, sugar confectionery is looking dynamic these days. There are core brand developments and extensions of course, such as Mars...
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Mars Big One
Rsp 43p/100g Not strictly a new product, but a reshaped version of the immensely popular King Size Mars bar, a pedigree that's given it automatic entry to the top slot. Launched in December, it has gained sales every month. Best month: April -...
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Cadbury prepares Easter battle plan
Simon Mowbray Cadbury Trebor Bassett is to attack next year's spring and Easter market with a range of launches and a multimillion pound marketing spend. The confectioner is to add eight new products to last year's offerings in a bid to grow its...
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ews that chewing gum suppliers are looking to grow their £27
According to world market leader Wrigley, the past year has been a good one for the sector. Research by AC Nielsen reveals that chewing gum sales are up about 8% so far this year, while confectionery trade overall has fallen by 1%. Importantly, the...
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Haribo gets on wizard bandwagon
Haribo is hoping to harness the confectionery market's trend towards all things magical with the launch of Magic Mix. Family bags, featuring brand ambassador Hariboy in a cape and wizard's hat with a broomstick, contain assorted jelly and foam...
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A provocative £5m advertising campaign for Nescafé Gold Blen
KP introduces animated heroes Sid and Alfie this week as frontmen in new advertising for its its Skips brand. They battle the evil forces of the Wizard of Stodge. TV ads for Wrigley's Orbit tooth-whitening variant White broke last week. The new...
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Wrigley's set for 20% sales hike as Airwaves gets Blackcurra
Blackcurrant is to make its debut in the chewing gum category with the launch of Wrigley's Airwaves Blackcurrant + Vitamin C. And Wrigley's predicts that the new flavour, which is available from September 3, will grow the Airwaves brand by at least...
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Trebor's the master
Cadbury Trebor Bassett plans to breathe fresh life into its mint range by creating a Trebor masterbrand, adding two new products and relaunching the rest with new branding. The company said the masterbrand, which will encompass all brands in the...
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Biscuit break
Green & Black's is using its eponymous organic chocolate brand to break into the biscuit fixture with the launch of milk and dark Organic Chocolate Butter Biscuits in mid September. The half-coated biscuits come in cream packaging with purple or...
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Cruncher looks to women
Snickers Cruncher, a new variant of Mars' popular confectionery bar, makes its debut on UK confectionery fixtures this week. But the company has advised retailers to site it away from its popular sibling. This is because the new bar contains...
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Making a mint in break from norm
Mars is looking to generate sales for its Twix brand by bringing out a limited edition mint version of the popular two-finger snack. Available from August 13 for a "strict eight-week period", the snack comes with mint-flavoured caramel. Packed in...