All Crisps, nuts and snacks articles – Page 103
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Sara Lee in festive style
Sara Lee Bakery has launched four frozen desserts for the festive season. Festive Fruit Punch is brandy mousse on a spiced fruit and nut base, topped with fruit and a mulled wine glaze. Marbleous Choc 'n' Orange Cheesecake is a deep filled...
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Nuts: Cobnuts make a comeback
Traditional Kentish cobnuts are making a comeback on retail shelves. Their growing popularity was highlighted by Waitrose's sponsorship of the growers' association exhibition class held at the National Fruit Show. The crop can be eaten from...
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SIAL show review: Children's snacks: Wacko races to surprise
A new pan-European snacks brand for kids was unveiled at the show by Unichips. The Wacko's Surprise range comprises four flavours of crisps and two snack products with the taste of each one specially adapted to suit younger palates. The neat twist...
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SIAL show review: Breads and sandwiches: Baguettes boxed
Baguette in a box is the latest food to go development from Delifrance (UK). The frozen baguettes are supplied in a box that is heat resistant to 260degC, and take just two minutes to crisp up in an oven. Initially designed for in-flight catering,...
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Retail spotlight: Tesco in Budapest
Eastward Ho! East meets West in the brands that can be found on Tesco shelves in Budapest, and the locals love it. Clive Beddall reports from the Hungarian capital The scene's familiar, but the location is not. It's 11am on a crisp autumn...
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Drums are banged
KP Snacks has given its Mini Cheddars and Mini Garlic Baguettes drums a facelift to promote consumer trial. It plans to maximise sales over the Christmas peak with the second redesign of the packs this year. The new look Cheddars and Baguettes...
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NET SWAPPING WITH WOTSITS
Golden Wonder is hooking up with kids' web site SwapitShop.com in a new promotion for Wotsits. SwapitShop has been set up to allow children to swap their unwanted toys and games over the internet. The promotion will run for six weeks, supported by...
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The Grocer focus on confectionery
Popcorn: hoping for an explosion Ideas are emerging to take consumption of one of America's favourite snacks from the silver screen to the small screen. Sheila Eggleston reports Unlike the US where the popcorn market is enormous, the jury is...
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The Grocer Guide to Snacks (an advertising supplement)
KP Snacks: Social snacking drives the vision KP Foods Waterman's Business Park The Causeway Staines Middlesex TW18 3BA Tel: 01784 447744 Web site: www.unitedbiscuits.co.uk Key contactS Managing director Will Carter Sales director ...
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The Grocer Guide to Snacks (an advertising supplement)
KP Nuts: Just nuts about Christmas time KP Nuts Chesterton Road Eastwood Trading Estate Rotherham South Yorkshire S65 1TD Tel: 01709 828101 Fax: 01709 828508 Key contactS General manager Andy Rush Sales controller Duncan Hill...
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Wotsits turn into potato
Golden Wonder’s Wotsits Mealtime Potato Shapes its first non-bagged snack launch for 30 years brings the kids’ brand head to head with KP Hula Hoops in the frozen potato products market. The cheese flavoured, foil packed, mainmeal…
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The Grocer focus on Scotland:
Bakery: hard selling the family tartan There's no resting on laurels for Walkers or Tunnocks as Karen Dempsey discovers The Scots are renowned for having a sweet tooth and they are also getting cannier at encouraging the rest of the world to...
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Partners in time: The past is the future
Tradition and continuity are obsessions with the siblings who run Walkers Shortbread. Belinda Gannaway met them There are family businesses, and there are family businesses.Some 102 years under three generations of the same family undoubtedly...
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Obituary: Colin Brook
Colin Brook, chairman of Seabrook Potato crisps, has died from cancer. He was 74. Brook, who friends described as a workaholic', started making crisps after the war at the family's chip shop in Bradford. Within a few years the doorstep delivery...
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Waitrose@work: Big brand sites link
Waitrose's shopping-from-the-office arm Waitrose@work has signed up big brands BP Amoco, Walkers Snack Foods, Heinz and Sara Lee. The new partners will advertise waitrose@work on their intranet sites as a timesaving employee benefit. The Waitrose...
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Walkers comes to the crunch over Tayto's rival Munch
Just months after Walkers entered the Irish Republic, it has been caught up in a legal wrangle with its indigenous competitor Tayto over a brand name. Walkers is taking legal action over Tayto's use of the name Mighty Munch which it objects...
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Popcorn: not the only big deal'
Sir; I was interested to read the letter Popcorn prices not a big deal' by James Peterson, Nottinghamshire (Letters, July 22). In response, we are a dedicated popcorn manufacturer but I was never suggesting that bringing popcorn prices down would...
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Real Crisps alive and well and on sale in Welsh supermarke
Sir; Your News in Brief column in the July 22 issue carried an item stating that the Real Crisps Co has gone into liquidation'. In fact The Real Crisps Co is alive and well and trading very successfully. Our products are stocked by the Welsh...
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Pepsico wants Golden Wonder
PepsiCo, owner of Walker's Crisps, is believed to be trying to buy Golden Wonder. The crisp and snack manufacturer has been put up for sale by Legal and General Ventures and industry sources have said the price may be as high as £100m. L&G md...
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Popcorn could be sold cheaper
Sir; Does The Grocer have any idea if our industry really does want to cooperate with the government in bringing the cost of food down to the consumer? Let me explain. We think we produce the best popcorn in the UK today. I have been in the...