All Confectionery articles – Page 89

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    Organic Meltdown: eat it and save trees

    2009-07-11T00:00:00Z

    Ethical food supplier Brand Stand has revamped its Organic Meltdown premium organic Fairtrade chocolate bars to more clearly communicate their rainforest-saving credentials.Organic Meltdown, which pledges to save a tree for every bar...

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    Designer style axed as Nestlé Black Magic goes back to traditional packaging

    2009-07-11T00:00:00Z

    Nestlé is bringing back the old Black Magic this Christmas by returning the dark chocolate brand to its traditional packaging. The confectionery giant has ditched the modern design and flavours of the Black Magic Collection box that replaced...

  • WISPA GOLD
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    Wispa Gold to return, and possibly for good

    2009-07-04T00:00:00Z

    Cadbury is expecting the majority of its relaunched Wispa Gold bars to be sold out by Christmas - and if the launch is successful could make them a permanent line. The confectioner announced yesterday that it was going to introduce the...

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    Kit Kat gives two fingers to artificial ingredients

    2009-06-27T00:00:00Z

    Nestlé is giving its Kit Kat 2 Finger a healthy makeover and ditching artificial ingredients in a bid to increase its appeal to gatekeeper mums. The relaunched bars, which will be available from August across the trade, are free from artificial...

  • AD-OF-WEEK-STARBURST
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    Ad of the Week: Starburst’s smooth devil has its way with your memories

    2009-06-27T00:00:00Z

    Sometimes it can be hard to let go to move on and grow as a person. Or, you know, as a brand of brightly coloured fruit chews.

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    Watkins takes up the impulse reins at Mars

    2009-06-13T00:00:00Z

    Deri Watkins has been appointed Mars impulse sales director in the UK, replacing Shaid Shah, who has been promoted to general manager of the business in Ireland.

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    Dogfood turns traceable with Pedigree relaunch

    2009-06-13T00:00:00Z

    Mars has overhauled its entire Pedigree dogfood range with new packaging and recipes, a £7m marketing campaign and a commitment to only use meat that can be traced back to the farm - which it claims is an industry first. The Good Honest...

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    Thorntons to start selling Coca-Cola as chiller cabinets wheel in

    2009-06-13T00:00:00Z

    Thorntons has signed a surprise new deal with Coca-Cola to start selling Coke Zero, Dr Pepper and other fizzy favourites in its stores and cafes.

    In a two-year deal, the confectionery retailer will replace Thornton’s limited range of drinks,…

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    Kraft hunts 90s icons for Daim campaign

    2009-06-05T09:29:24.720Z

    Kraft Foods is urging TV and pop music icons from the 1990s to audition to star in the ad campaign for its Daim bar brand.

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    Stella 4% launch 'most successful of past year'

    2009-05-23T00:00:00Z

    Stella Artois 4% is the most successful launch in grocery of the past year, new data from IRI has revealed. The InBev lower-alcohol lager, which was only launched last August, fought off competition from Cadbury's Creme Egg Twisted and Birds...

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    Wrigley freshens up Starburst for summer

    2009-05-16T00:00:00Z

    Wrigley is gearing up for the summer season with a raft of NPD under its sugar confectionery portfolio. The Starburst brand is being expanded with a new Smoothies variant in sticks (rsp 39p) and sharing bags (rsp £1.37). Smoothies will...

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    The eyes have it as Cadbury Dairy Milk Buttons revamped

    2009-05-16T00:00:00Z

    Cadbury has drafted in a farmyard full of cute cartoon animals for a major revamp of its Dairy Milk Buttons.The new standard size packets, which roll out next week, feature images of a cat, pig, panda, owl and monkey, with chocolate Buttons...

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    Campaign Trail: A bit of spin from Mentos

    2009-05-09T00:00:00Z

    Perfetti Van Melle has taken a saucy approach to advertising Mentos in a new £3m ad push - the company's biggest spend to date. The Mentos Irresistibly Fresh ads, on TV this week, are set in a launderette and depict a man giving a woman a 'Mentos...

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    Rowntree's Randoms target teens

    2009-05-02T00:00:00Z

    Nestlé is taking on Haribo by targeting 16 to 24-year-olds with bagged sweets Rowntree's Randoms.The latest product from the confectionery giant is a 50g bag of jelly sweets (rsp 39p) that come in a variety of textures, flavours and 70...

  • CADBURY DUO
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    Cadbury boosts sharing sector with Duo formats

    2009-04-25T00:00:00Z

    Cadbury is emulating arch-rival Mars by extending its Boost and Double Decker bars into Duo formats in a move it says will achieve what its rival has failed to - revive sales of larger bars. Mars, which has Duo formats for Mars, Milky Way,...

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    Bendicks makeover aims to double sales

    2009-04-25T00:00:00Z

    Bendicks hopes that by giving its chocolates a more youthful edge it will double the brand's sales to £30m in the next year. From August its entire range will be relaunched to appeal to shoppers outside its core "older consumer base" - the...

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    Suppliers left with post-Woolies egg mountain

    2009-04-18T00:00:00Z

    Manufacturers have been left with hundreds of thousands of excess Easter eggs after the supermarkets failed to sell stocks despite eye-watering promotions.

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    New lines for Chupa Chups and Mentos

    2009-04-11T00:00:00Z

    Perfetti van Melle is extending its Mentos and Chupa Chups confectionery brands.A three-strong Magics range of fizzy powder-filled lollipops joins the Chupa Chups range on shelf now. It is available in cola-lime, mango-apple and...

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    Picture This... Cadbury pairs up with Beyoncé

    2009-04-11T00:00:00Z

    Cadbury's Trident is getting bootylicious thanks to a new partnership with R&B superstar Beyoncé. The chewing gum brand is launching an on-pack competition that will offer 13,000 consumers the chance to win tickets to see the pop diva in an...

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    U-turn over vanilla chew

    2009-04-04T00:00:00Z

    Chewits is reviving its vanilla ice cream flavour variant after an online campaign by consumers.The sweets - phased out in the mid-1990s - will join Chewits' existing range in May, after more than 500 Bebo and Facebook users clamoured for...