All Confectionery articles – Page 80
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Mars appoints Dunning as grocery sales director
Mars Chocolate UK has appointed former Cadbury man Jamie Dunning as its new sales director for grocery.Dunning has joined Mars from Kraft, where he was impulse sales director for Cadbury products. He replaces David Bell, who was poached...
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NewsLeigh gets tasty role at Green & Black’s
William Leigh has won a MasterChef meets The Apprentice-style contest to become the new taste assistant for Green & Black's. Leigh, a food writer from South London, was selected from thousands of applicants who took part in a...
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Analysis & FeaturesAcid Test: Panda Blueberry Liquorice
The company hopes the combination of liquorice and blueberries will tap into consumer demand for healthier snacks and superfoods.
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NewsEaster scorcher turns up the heat on Thorntons
Easter sales at Thorntons were down by more than a fifth from last year thanks to the recent hot weather. Like-for-like sales in the key Easter period were down 22.8%, the confectioner said today.
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Comment & Opinion
Not a bad substitute for chocolate
It may have been all that sickly-sweet love in the air, what with the fairytale romance (or the hideously indulgent waste of taxpayers’ money, depending on your politics) set to unfold at Westminster Abbey.
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NewsCampaign Trail: a touch of skittles
The Midas touch becomes the Tim touch in this new TV push where everything an office worker touches turns to Skittles. The ad, which screens for three weeks from 3 May, features Tim and his ability to transform items such as his computer mouse and...
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Mentos targets number two spot in gum market
Perfetti Van Melle is aiming to make Mentos the second-biggest chewing gum player in the UK ahead of Cadbury. The company said it wanted to "achieve a clear number two position" following a 110% year-on-year hike in sales of Mentos gum...
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NewsMars and Cadbury unveil latest NPD in fight for bite-size
Mars and Cadbury have both unveiled products targeted at the growing demand for bite-size chocolate treats. In a first for the Cadbury Dairy Milk brand in the UK, Chocos will offer consumers 11 round pieces of chocolate in a roll-pack…
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McVitie’s and Mars unite to slice up Twix
McVitie's Cake Company has teamed up with Mars to launch Twix branded caramel slices marking the chocolate brand's first foray into cakes.Twix Caramel Slices, rolling out now, feature a shortcake base with a layer of caramel topped with...
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Rowntree’s steps on to Haribo’s share bag turf
Rowntree's is muscling into traditional Haribo territory with the launch of sharing bags of jellies, sours and foams.Aimed at young families, Very Berry Jellies, Sour Faces and Jelly Aliens are rolling out at the end of the month. They...
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Comment & Opinion
Mars's barmy army
It’s the nature of rankings like Britain’s 100 Biggest Brands that there are winners and there are losers. Or, to put it more generously, those that won less than others.
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NewsEvison is new Mars Food MD as Hughes opts for retirement
Mars Food UK has promoted UK food sales director Emma Evison to managing director. Evison takes over the role from Rob Hughes, who has retired. She joined Mars in 1994 and has since held a number of roles across the company's pet care,...
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Comment & OpinionAd of the Week: Knight of the Rowntree table fails to storm the Pastille
Once you pop, Pringles used to say, you can't stop. That was before the dawn of the obese époque, when we became a bloated nation of beached whales gurgling cholesterol through our lipid-encrusted blowholes. Now if you don't stop after...
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NewsRowntree’s joins the sour sweet ranks
Nestlé is extending the Rowntree’s brand next month with the launch of Sour Pastilles. The sweets, aimed at 25 to 35-year-olds, will join products from Haribo and Barratt in the sours confectionery category. Sales of sour singles have…
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NewsRobinsons takes drinks brands into sweets aisle
Britvic is making the leap from cordials to confectionery with a new sweets range under its Robinsons brand. The range of boiled and jelly sweets, which will be made under license by upmarket confectioner Monty Bojangles, will come in…
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Analysis & FeaturesAcid Test: Kit Kat Four Finger 70% Dark
The higher cocoa content and sleeker look will help the brand tap into the popularity of dark chocolate
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NewsJaxx ‘to fill early teen market gap’
Teenagers and kids are being offered confectionery with attitude in the shape of Jaxx Crunches. Former Unilever and Nestlé executive Yehudi Lipman, who is behind the launch, said there was a gap in the market for a product aimed at early...
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Focus On Ice Cream: Innovations
Fredericks Dairies is set to launch an ice cream version of Cadbury's Wispa brand in both impulse and take home formats.
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Comment & OpinionEditor's Comment: Decline of Mars is more about the whisper than the Wispa
In January last year, Mars announced plans to reformulate the Mars bar. It was a historic move: while other chocolate confectioners were signing up to Fairtrade this and Rainforest that, the UK’s favourite chocolate bar invested £9m over five years…
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Britain's 100 Biggest Brands 2011: Activia to Galaxy
Danone Activia has overtaken Müller Corner as the bestselling yoghurt brand, thanks to a 10.1% increase in value sales that saw it jump three...