All Confectionery articles – Page 97
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The season to be generous
Spurred on by last year's success in driving up value during the heavily discounted Christmas and Easter periods, companies have once again been busy developing products that can command higher prices and won't fall victim to deals from the...
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What should Scooby fear?
The character licensing market could be facing tough times if threats of advertising restrictions become a reality. Having opposed Ofcom's three proposals on advertising to children, which are all based around time restrictions on...
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Trends & Developments
?Small is beautiful - at least, that's what Green & Black's is hoping for with its latest venture, a boxed set of miniature versions of its chocolate bars. Available from major supermarkets and department stores, the Miniatures Collection...
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Keeping consumers sweet
Confectionery hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons when 'that' salmonella story, about the contamination of a certain purple-coloured brand, broke in July. Headlines screamed of meltdown at the company with some newspapers relating the...
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CONSUMER FEEDBACK
Subtle changes are slowly influencing and reshaping the countline confectionery market. As competition intensifies from the expanding range of cereal bars and other healthy alternatives, countlines have become more indulgent, offering an...
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CONSUMER FEEDBACK
The confectionery category is increasingly dominated by innovations in boxed and tub formats, with consumers adopting modestly priced packs of favourite chocolates repackaged and presented in a different guise.Many top brands have been...
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Confectionery products are habitual purchases
In such a crowded market, what are the key drivers for purchase? This was the question put to consumers by shopper behaviour consultant Visuality.Confectionery is dominated by habitual purchases. Time and again, researchers saw shoppers...
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Life, love... and chocolate
The most notable innovation in chocolate may have been a step into darkness?, but manufacturers are all too aware that they need to continue to make waves in milk chocolate - which is still far and away the biggest chocolate sector - if they are...
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Dark chocolate
If you could draw just one conclusion from the activity of pretty much all ?the major players during the past few months, it would have to be that the future of chocolate is dark. Almost overnight the countline category went from having...
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Campaign trail: Werthers Original
Werthers Original Budget: £4m Manufacturer: Bendicks It was a case of out with the old and in with the new in the latest advert for butter candy Werthers Original, with the much-loved grandfather figure finally pensioned off. In...
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In Brief: Rowntree jobs go; That's entertaining; Healthy knowledge
Rowntree jobs go Nestlé is to cut 645 jobs at its Rowntree factory in York. One quarter of the workforce is being axed as production of a number of brands, including Smarties, Black Magic and Matchmakers, is moved to the...
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Advertising's not kids' stuff
Thanks to a certain TV chef, what we feed our children has never been in such sharp focus. But does Jamie Oliver's crusade against junk food spell disaster for the kids' confectionery market? Although there is no measure of the...
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looking back What we said in 2000
The top ten confectionery bars may have been around for ?years, but their age hasn't precluded a lot of comings and goings. It's a category where companies are eager to please and stretch their brands into new areas. A look back ?at six...
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the tub thumper
I recognise Jerry Greenfield, better known as the Jerry half of Ben & Jerry's ice cream company, as soon as I meet him, although I can't recall ever seeing him before. Casually dressed in a polo shirt and combat trousers (already sporting a...
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Burdon to step down as Thorntons' top man
Peter Burdon, chief executive of Thorntons, is to leave the company as soon as an appropriate replacement can be found.Executive chairman John von Spreckelsen announced Burdon's planned departure at the same time that the retailer...
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New look for old favourites
Red Mill Snack Foods is rebranding some of its longest-established snack lines under a Favourites range. From this month, packs of Onion Rings, Crunchy Twirls, Bacon Streaks and Savoury Sticks will carry a modern design, while two new...
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Availability
Asda Gibson Way, Gateshead 0 The Asda on Gibson Way in Gateshead was large and easy to shop in. However, our mystery shopper was not able to find all the items on his shopping list. The store did not stock the 16-pack of Twix...