All Crisps, nuts and snacks articles
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News
Whitworths returns to pre-tax profit as sales boom
Whitworths is looking ahead to “an exciting year” after the dried fruit and nuts brand bounced back into the black on the back of double-digit sales growth
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News
PepsiCo invests £13m into ‘extensive upgrade’ of Doritos site
Work to install a new manufacturing line will commence in August
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News
Europe Snacks set for new PE ownership as One Rock finalises acquisition
The own-label crisps manufacturer is close to changing hands after its current private equity owner kicked off a sale process earlier this year
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Analysis & Features
How Oatopia went from athletic snack to gold award-winner
The business was started in 2011 by endurance athlete Tamar Coleman
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Profiles and QandAs
My food & drink job: Maddy Hooton, brand manager, Takis
Brand manager Maddy shares how she stokes the flames of gen Z’s viral obsession with spicy Takis
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News
Tyrrells and Wallace & Gromit launch Wensleydale crisps into Co-op
The ‘quintessentially British’ crisps are an ode to Wallace’s favourite cheese
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News
Boundless bags £1.5m investment to cement position in gut health snacking
Cathy Moseley founded the business in 2017, launching a range of ‘activated’ crisps, nuts and seeds aimed at improving gut health
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Category Report
Kids’ lunch trends 2024: Obesity unpacked?
Childhood obesity peaked in lockdown. Today, it remains above pre-pandemic levels. So do our packed lunches need to change?
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News
Kellanova brings $1bn Cheez-It brand to the UK
The launch will be supported by an £18m marketing push
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Category Report
Lunch trends 2024: Why lunch is going places
As food-to-go options get more adventurous, brands are looking to broaden the horizons of lunchboxes, too. Who’s winning?
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News
Whitworths launches first TV ad to ‘drive consumption’ of nuts and seeds
The ad will run throughout the summer on Channel 4
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News
McVitie’s eyes ‘Zero’ added sugar spin-off for Digestives
The manufacturer has applied to register ‘McVitie’s Zero’ and ‘Jacob’s Bites’ as trademarks
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News
Aldi claims UK supermarket first with recycled content in own label crisp packets
The change will eliminate about 78 tonnes of virgin plastic from use annually, according to Aldi
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Comment & Opinion
Too hot to handle? The dangers of gen Z’s addiction to spice
Fuego, Flamin’ Hot, Volcano… just some of the flavour descriptors on ultra-spicy snacks gaining popularity among young shoppers
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News
Frazzles and Walkers crisps safe from EU ‘smoky bacon ban’, says PepsiCo
Member states endorsed a proposal by the European Commission to phase out eight smoke flavours in April
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Range Preview
Co-op summer 2024 range: global flavours and British BBQ
Co-op is taking the impulse shopper on a taste tour around the world
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News
PepsiCo to deliver Walkers crisps in trucks powered by cooking oil
It claims the move will help it save 13,000 tonnes in greenhouse gas emissions by the end of 2024
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News
Unilever Graze integration putting ‘significant number of jobs at risk’
Graze is losing its independent status after owner Unilever set in motion plans to integrate the snacking brand into the wider group, with a significant number of jobs on the line as a result, The Grocer has learned
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Analysis & Features
What a Pickle: from kids’ jam to Asda and farm shop stalwart
What a Pickle founder Camilla Lywood explains how an acquisition is transforming the chutney and sauce supplier
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News
Good Guys Bakehouse completes six-figure raise from fmcg heavyweights
Angel investors backing the business include former Pladis UK boss Nick Bunker, David Bell, currently chairman of Hackney Gelato and a former director at Mars UK and Young’s Seafood, and former Graze COO Tom Carroll, who was also CEO at British Corner Shop