All Confectionery articles – Page 96
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It's the end of an era for ads
The Milky bars are on me. I'm a secret lemonade drinker. Tell them about the honey, mummy. These iconic catchphrases come from some of the most admired and loved television commercials of all time. In fact there were 52 adverts for food and...
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The truth about the Mars bar statistics
Cadbury falls behind in chocolate wars," screamed a headline in the normally reserved Financial Times last week. As the crucial fourth quarter got under way, four-week figures to 14 October from ACNielsen showed Masterfoods, which owns Mars and...
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New Bournville heralds busy 2007 at Cadbury
Cadbury Trebor Bassett is relaunching its Bournville brand and developing a premium Double Chocolate variant of Dairy Milk to tap into the major consumer trends towards plain chocolate and indulgence.Both developments are expected to...
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Hallowe'en is so sweet for sales of chocolates
The approach of Halloween has resulted in increased activity in the confectionery category. It has overtaken soft drinks to lie in sixth position in the overall branded share chart, only 1% behind household, with treat-size, fun-size and...
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Skinny Candy for Waitrose
Skinny Candy - a sugarfree confectionery range developed by Coffee Republic founder Sahar Hashemi - is poised to announce a listing in Waitrose stores. The brand, which was launched last year and is available in Harvey Nichols and...
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Ramsay does a Ratner on own boxed chocs
Outspoken celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay has inadvertently belittled his premium boxed chocolate range while hitting back at critics. Responding to a question on the quality of the range while speaking at a Channel 4 food event last...
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In Brief: Salmonella's toll; Asda zero tolerance; Food hall facelift
Salmonella's toll Mars sold more chocolate than Cadbury Schweppes in the four weeks to 14 October, according to ACNielsen data, following a 5% year-on-year fall in Q3 sales at the Bournville-based company. Cadbury blamed the...
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looking back What we said in 2001
Harry Potter was one of the major licences when we covered the sector back in October 2001, with the schoolboy wizard appearing on anything from mobile phones and stickers to a range of confectionery from Mars (now Masterfoods). And all this was...
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Company Profile More Food
When Caron Howe started baking cakes at her small family-run coffee shop in Chichester in 1992, she could never have known that 14 years later her culinary skills would have snowballed into a £1m-a-year business. Having noted the local...
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After Eights move away from the dinner table
Nestlé Rowntree is pushing its After Eight chocolates into the countline category for the first time in a bid to introduce the brand to a younger generation of consumers. Packs of bite-sized dark chocolates with a mint fondant centre, in...
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World News - 14th October 2006
United States. Former president Bill Clinton has brokered a deal with industry to crack down on junk food sold in US schools. Under the agreement with Kraft Foods, Mars, Campbell Soup, Groupe Danone and PepsiCo, guideline levels...
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Fox's campaign is a 'little less ordinary'
Fox's is shouting about the effort and high-quality ingredients that go into its biscuits in a £1.3m advertising campaign aimed at refreshing the brand. Based on the strapline, 'a little less ordinary, a little more Fox's', a month of...
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Cadbury aims to crack luxury eggs for Easter
Cadbury Trebor Bassett has shrugged off the bruises of this summer's salmonella scare-induced product recall to announce its Easter range and is calling on stores to swap Easter egg price deals for premium offerings, claiming that the former do...
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Board games add chocolate versions
Board game fans are used to Monopoly money, but now they can trade in pieces of chocolate instead. Three of the most popular board games in the UK - Scrabble, Trivial Pursuit and Monopoly - have been transformed into edible chocolate...
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Mars man for Thorntons
Senior Mars executive Mike Davies has been appointed chief executive officer of specialist chocolate retailer Thorntons.Davies, who took up his new role yesterday, replaces Peter Burdon who resigned as CEO last week.He has worked for...
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Soundbites
?"The major issue is that there is increasing interest from consumers and retailers as to the integrity of ingredients. We are seeing consumers becoming really interested ?in what they are eating." Mark Palmer Marketing...
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Soundbites
"The UK confectionery market is both mature and sophisticated and, in such an environment, developing truly innovative ideas is a challenge. It requires companies to invest in both time and resources to do so. Making a success of innovation is...
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Research Notes
The UK confectionery market is worth £4.08bn, but is flat at 0.2% growth. Although ?45 million British individuals have bought confectionery in the latest year this has fallen by 0.8% (372,256 individuals). On average, shoppers are...
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Merchandising
You only need to look at what happened to Masterfoods last year to recognise the importance of effective merchandising?. The confectionery giant believes sales of its Celebrations were down £5.2m in the final four weeks of the...
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Less sugar but still as sweet
With manufacturers claiming the overall sugar confectionery market is static at best, they have spent the year concentrating on ways to re-engage with consumers. And the consensus on how to achieve this has been to remove some of the guilt...