All Crisps, nuts and snacks articles – Page 105
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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...
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Elizabeth Shaw set to indulge in ads
The Elizabeth Shaw Company will be breathing new life into its 99 year old mint crisp this Christmas, with the brand's first major advertising campaign for five years. The ads, which break in consumer glossies in October, November and December,...
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Kissing gateway to starry prize
Walkers is launching a gamecard promotion for tortilla chip brand Doritos as part of its £6m evening snacking programme. The Big Screen Kiss is an instant win in-pack promotion consisting of a heat sensitive gamecard that invites consumers to kiss...
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Tasting panel: Aspall Dry Suffolk Cyder
THE EXPERT Arabella Woodrow Master of Wine and wine buyer for Forth Wine This is an attractive pale colour with a nice mousse. In the glass it has a crisp juicy appley nose which is quite aromatic and enticing. The taste is extremely pleasant....
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The Grocer Focus on Northern Ireland: Bakery suppliers
Tayto gets into rough trade Tayto, Northern Ireland's number one crisp and snack brand, is targeting the booming crinkle cut market with its most important product launch in years. The company believes Rough Cuts will take a 10% share of the NI...
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Tasting panel: Merrydown Classic
THE EXPERT Arabella Woodrow Master of Wine and wine buyer for Forth Wines This has a paleish gold colour and a light mousse. It has a quite crisp Golden Delicious' nose with a slight hint of dull woolly washing up water. It is medium dry ...
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Launch talk
Golden Wonder is spending £1m on the launch of Wotsits Wafflers a brand extension of children's snack Wotsits. Wafflers, which will go to the impulse trade next month and to the multiples in the autumn, is targeted at 11-15 year olds. Support...
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Covermount: Simpsons crisps first
Simpsons Comic claims it will become the first magazine to covermount a bag of crisps when its next issue appears with a packet of special Eat My Shorts' snacks. The shorts-shaped crisps are produced by Snackhouse UK (formerly Bensons), which is...
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Doritos chips and dips move closer
Walkers is pushing evening snacking as a new category with a £10m spend behind its Doritos brand. The new initiative will focus on marketing chips and dips together, with the tagline dip in, chill out'. Doritos Dippas dipping chips have been...
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KP calls for a big hand as it introduces Hoopy McHula
KP Snacks plans to revitalise the sales and brand image of Hula Hoops with a £7m marketing campaign targeted at teenagers. Central to the marketing activity is a £4.5m advertising campaign featuring a wacky hand puppet character, Hoopy McHula. He...
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Snack-a-Dip arrives with the Pringles style treatment...
Exclusive: Karen Dempsey A new snack and dip product capitalising on the popularity of Pringles tube-type packaging will launch to the trade later this month. Snack-a-Dip comes with white corn tortilla chips and ambient dip in a tube. The three...
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Fuel for men
Cadbury has brought out a limited edition peanut based bar aimed at the 16-44 male "refuelling" category. It is a wafer based product and is lighter than its peanut based rival Snickers. Promotional support for P'Nut has only been on the internet....