All Crisps, nuts and snacks articles – Page 69
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Focus On Crisps, Nuts & Snacks: Crinkle-cut crisps by any other name
Just how many ways can you describe a crinkle-cut crisp? Sector stalwart McCoy's has always gone with 'Ridge Cut' but while Kettle is singing from the same hymn sheet with its Kettle Ridge Crisps, launched last year, others have come up with a raft of alternatives.
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Top-tier crisps to tap into taste for tapas
Will British crisp-lovers fork out almost four quid for a new super-premium snack?Distributor Fayrefield Foods is hunting listings for San Nicasio Patatas Fritas. The Spanish crisps likely to sell for £3.49 to £3.99 for 190g are...
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NewsCripes! Crips cracks it at Morrisons
Low-calorie snack brand Crips 99Cals has bagged its first national supermarket listing. The oven-baked wheat and potato snack, which its maker claims contains 70% less fat than traditional fried potato crisps, is rolling out to 300...
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NewsGü launches its first national TV ad and single-serve desserts
Gü is launching a range of individual single-serve puds as part of a major brand revamp that will be supported by its first national TV push. Gü Singles mousses (rsp: £1.19) are being launched after a trial of two single-pot products...
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Comment & OpinionAd of the Week: The ears and the Body have a crinkled kind of love
Just as kids grow up faster the older you get, Walkers seems to have a new ad out every other week these days. With Lionel Richie still ringing horribly in our ears, Gary Lineker is back yet again, this time frolicking in a billowy Glenn...
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NewsWarbies bagged snack back with new identity
Warburtons has returned to the snacks arena 10 months after a fire stopped production of its new SnackaDoodle and Chippidy DooDaa lines but it has dropped one brand and radically revamped the other.
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NewsThe Honey Monster in vanishing act
For the first time in 35 years, the Honey Monster is disappearing from Sugar Puffs packs. But fear not, the furry fella has only been removed temporarily for promotional purposes. The Find Honey Monster campaign offers...
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Brits show off quiff upper lip
First it was milk, putting a creamy smear on the top lip of stars like Pixie Lott, Gordon Ramsay and Usher.Now the awesome marketing power of the moustache has been deployed twice in a week. Absurdist nut lover Captain Tiptoes, a…
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Seabrook breaks into London cash & carries
Seabrook Crisps is hoping to crack the London c-store market after securing new cash & carry listings with Bestway and Dhamecha Group. The family-owned brand is already available in the UK's major multiples but will now be stocked in...
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Analysis & FeaturesAcid Test: Seabrook Goodbye Salt, Hello Flavour Tommy Ketchup
Seabrook positioned the range as the first on the market that was full of flavour despite reduced salt content
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NewsP&G quits food trade after selling Pringles to Kettle Chips owner
Procter & Gamble has exited the food business after selling its Pringles crisp brand. Diamond Foods, the US snacks group that owns Kettle Chips, has bought the brand in a deal worth $2.35bn (£1.44bn).
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Humdinger adds Ambrosia custard snacks
Humdinger Foods has added two Ambrosia-branded custard-based snacks to its portfolio of licensed foods. The duo, rolling out to Sainsbury's and Morrisons now and into Asda next month, consists of Custard Coated Apple Flakes and Custard...
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Comment & OpinionAd of the Week: Knight of the Rowntree table fails to storm the Pastille
Once you pop, Pringles used to say, you can't stop. That was before the dawn of the obese époque, when we became a bloated nation of beached whales gurgling cholesterol through our lipid-encrusted blowholes. Now if you don't stop after...
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NewsWalkers is accused of ‘cloning’ rival brands with Crinkles launch
The launch of a crinkle-cut range by Walkers has prompted a claim that the brand “clones” rival crisp products. Walkers is to roll out Walkers Crinkles in April, a move it claimed would be the biggest category launch of the past five…
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NewsWalkers hails Crinkles launch as ‘biggest in five years’
Walkers is launching a range of crinkle-cut crisps next month, in a move the PepsiCo brand claimed was the biggest category launch of the past five years.
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NewsVanilla Ice raps while he wraps
We've had Lionel Richie singing about Walkers crisps. Now another icon of times past is has been waxing lyrical for tone-deaf foodies this time on behalf of Warburtons wraps. Vanilla Ice who shot to fame 20 years ago with hits like Ice...
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NewsToffee flavour joins the Dodgers family
Burton's Foods is bringing out the first non-jam Jammie Dodger in over a decade, supported by a £4.5m TV campaign. Toffee Dodgers, available now, comes in the biscuit's traditional heart-shaped cut-out format, but features a sticky toffee...
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NewsSeabrook boosted by £6m fund for growth
Seabrook Crisps has secured additional banking facilities as it ramps up plans to boost distribution in the South. The family-owned company has agreed extra funding of up to £6m with its existing bank HSBC to help pursue its five-year...
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Britain's 100 Biggest Brands 2011: Walkers to Kingsmill
Brits aren’t renowned for being adventurous eaters, but offering them the likes of BBQ Kangaroo or Teriyaki Chicken crisps seems to have worked...
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Britain's 100 Biggest Brands 2011: Birds Eye to Pringles
Last year Birds Eye brought in a polar bear – voiced by Willem Dafoe – to dispel some myths about frozen food, and highlight that its fish...