All Crisps, nuts and snacks articles – Page 72
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Yorkshire Crisps add Roast Lamb limited edition
The Yorkshire Crisp Company is adding a limited edition Roast Lamb & Mint pack to its range following a consumer competition to create a new flavour.
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Brits turn monster munchers as crisps ward off recession blues
Hungry Brits scoffed their way through a staggering 208 million more bags of crisps in 2010 than they did the year before. It seems consumers were more interested in comfort food and small treats as the economic crisis bit than health...
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Analysis & Features
Acid Test: O! So Natural Fruit Crisps
The freeze-dried fruit crisps are aimed at plugging a gap for more flavourful fruit crisps.
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Profiles
My Alternative CV: Oliver Rudgard, Tyrrells
Oliver Rudgard, marketing director at Tyrrells Potato Chips, on Tube train chivalry, crisp tastings and panpipe teaching
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Focus On Cereals: Kellogg's dominates big spenders
Kellogg's continues to dominate cereal advertising spend, its brands accounting for seven of the top 10 spots. The brand spent a whopping £23.2m on Crunchy Nut advertising alone last year, a 113% increase on 2009, and it seems to have paid off.
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My Alternative CV: David Willis, Salty Dog
David Willis, co-founder of Salty Dog crisps, on Einstein, creativity and crisp oil-fuelled helicopters
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Walkers crisps get a comic twist with new flavours
Walkers has recruited some of Britain's best known comedians, including Stephen Fry and Jimmy Carr, to launch a new range of crisps, The Grocer can exclusively reveal.
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Booker adds to own-label snack range
Booker has added three new products to its own-label snacks range. Monkey nuts, spicy cashews and prawn crackers increase the range, launched in March, to seven lines. All the products are price-marked at 59p or two for £1 and offer...
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Indian-inspired crisp range adds spice to Burts Chips portfolio
Burts Chips has looked to the East for its first foray into the world food aisle. The Devon-based company has launched Anita's Chips, an exotic range of handcooked crisps in flavours inspired by Indian cuisine. The range, which...
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Wood to drive push by Seabrook Crisps into impulse market
Seabrook Crisps has appointed a new impulse trading controller as it prepares for a major push into convenience.Jon Wood has been brought on board to grow distribution of the brand outside the multiples. Seabrook Crisps plans to treble...
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Chase sell his final stake as Tyrrells exports boom
Tyrrells founder William Chase has sold his remaining stake and interests in the business to private equity firm Langholm Capital for an undisclosed sum. Chase said his new potato vodka business Chase Distillery was the deal driver and...
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Tyrrells joins ranks of ridged posh crisps
Tyrrells is the latest posh crisp maker to launch a range of ridged potato chips, following the roll-out of Kettle Ridge Chips in July. The Furrows range from Tyrrells is available in Waitrose and Booths stores now in sea salted, sea...
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Tyrrells founder to revive Malvern
William Chase, the founder of Tyrrells and Chase Distillery potato vodka, is looking to put in a bid to restart the production of Malvern Water.
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Scooby snacks all round thanks to licensing deal
Swizzels Matlow has signed a licensing deal with Warner Bros Consumer Products [WBCP] to create Scooby-Doo treats the 80-year-old confectionery company's first product as well as packaging-based licensing deal. The first Scooby-Doo...
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Wilkinson launches 54-strong range of own-label food lines
High street chain Wilkinson has launched its first own-label food range under the Wilko brand following an internal review. An initial 54 lines across the crisps, confectionery and biscuit categories have been introduced in all its 346…
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Unilever breaks ‘psychological’ £4 mark for tubs
Ice cream manufacturers have hailed a price hike on Ben & Jerry's for smashing the £3.99 "price ceiling" on premium tubs. The average base price of a 500g tub of Ben & Jerry's ice cream has risen from £3.99 to £4.18 over the past...
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Feasters gets fancy and flags low-fat content
Microwaveable burger specialist Feasters has retired its laddish image through a range relaunch. The Eatwell UK-owned business has given the packaging of its microwave-friendly products a new "gourmet menu-style" retro design with 'good...
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Gü targets grown-ups with in-store cookies
Gü is bringing some upmarket chocoholic flair to in-store bakery fixtures with its debut in cookies. The chocolate dessert specialist introduced Gü Cookies (rsp: £1.09 per two-pack) to Asda stores this week to add some adult appeal to a...
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‘No more skiving’: Walker poised for buyback of Iceland
Iceland boss Malcolm Walker joked this week he had been guilty of "skiving" after four years of stellar growth, but declared his eyes were firmly back on the prize with plans to buy back his business. Walker's admission came at the...