All Crisps, nuts and snacks articles – Page 77
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Tyrrells flies the flag with new flavours
Patriotic fervour has gripped upmarket potato chip company Tyrrells, which has launched a new range of British flavours as part of a year-long Great British Campaign. The new additions Welsh Rarebit, Beef Wellington and Pork &...
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Evans steps in as Amin moves up
Richard Evans has been named PepsiCo UK and Ireland president after Salman Amin was promoted to executive vice-president of sales and marketing, based in New York.Evans has been general manager of Walkers Snack Foods since 2007 and at...
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Ex-Innocent Brook launches Bear fruit and granola snacks
An ex-director of Innocent Drinks has set up Bear, a new range of baked fruit snacks that he predicts will claw £5m in sales over the first three years.After four years as Innocent's commercial director, Giles Brook departed earlier this...
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Kebabs with KP sauce
After England's thumping defeat in the fourth Ashes Test, some of our batsmen should probably be looking for new careers. Odd, then, that the blameless Kevin Pietersen absent with long-term Achilles knack is the one cooking kebabs this month for...
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Quality Test: Own-label plain naan bread
A good naan should be crisp on the outside, soft inside, and pleasantly yet subtly seasoned. Sainsbury's tried a different approach, with a soggy and artificial offering. It didn't work.
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Burts takes its chips to 10 new countries
Burts Chips has trebled the number of countries it exports to to 15 over the past year, boosting its turnover 90% to £6.2m.India, Malaysia and Dubai are among the countries the premium crisp company has added to its export roster.
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McCoy’s gets inspired by pub grub
United Biscuits is extending its McCoy's menu with pub grub-inspired crisps it says tap into the trend for classic British flavours.The limited-edition McCoy's Pub Grub crisps come in two variants: lamb & mint and roast beef &...
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Fruittella turns into a Chupa Chup
Perfetti van Melle has created a Fruittella centred Chupa Chups lolly to capture the strong growth of each brand. Chupa Chups Fruittella (rsp: £1.29 for bag of 10) rolls out to retail later this month in strawberry. With Chupa Chups and...
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Mars Treets is latest to make retro move
Mars is the latest company seeking to join the 1980s brand revival movement, bringing Treets out of retirement after 21 years. Looking to do ‘a Wispa’, the chocolate peanut variant of the brand, originally launched in 1976, will reappear on...
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Henderson's puts Yorkshire crisps in drum
Yorkshire Crisps has made its Henderson's Yorkshire Sauce-flavoured range available in resealable drums following "rocketing" sales of the bags.The hand-cooked crisp company claimed the spicy flavour was already outselling its original...
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NewsAd of the Week: Hula Hoops hits a hole in one (but not the other)
It's dangerous to assume everyone sees things the way you do - Michael Jackson probably thought calling alcohol 'Jesus juice' in that documentary made him seem less creepy and sinister rather than more so.
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Graze gets £2m shot in the arm
Graze, which delivers boxes of fruit, nuts and seeds to offices, has secured £2m worth of investment from backers Octopus Ventures and DFJ Esprit.
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Florette pushes freshness in TV ad aimed at women
Florette is to highlight the 'fresh-er-ness' of its salad leaves in a £2m 'crisp to the bottom of the bag' summer ad campaign.
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Mackie's diversifies into premium crisps
Ice-cream brand Mackie's of Scotland has ventured out of frozen to launch a range of premium crisps. Mackie's will produce the crisps in partnership with potato grower Taypack and they will be officially launched at the Royal Highland Show...
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NewsGrocer 33: Asda brings in cheapest shop by 45p
Asda secured victory again this week, undercutting nearest rival Morrisons by 45p. It made three reductions: the Hula Hoops by 2p, Marmite 9p and Seeds of Change sauce 1p.
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Third Party: Wider implications of the Pringles VAT ruling
Judges have put onus for VAT liability disputes back on Tribunals - but without adequate guidance, says Toby O'Reilly
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NewsEditor's Comment: Pringles are no more cakes than Mr Kipling French Fancies are crisps
So the Pringle is a crisp after all. And not a cake, as the P&G's lawyers had argued (see p5). Quite right, too, I say. Pringles can be described as many things - a tasty snack, a clever gimmick, an early example of premiumisation, a party...
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Campaign Trail: Lineker gets on his bike
Gary Lineker is up to mischief again in PepsiCo's latest on-pack campaign for its Walkers brand. Gary's Great Trips is similar to last year's Brit Trips, which encouraged consumers to collect on-pack points for discounted days out at British...
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Atkins launches first 'carb-friendly' range
Low-carb diet brand Atkins is venturing out of snack bars with what it describes as its first range of "carb-friendly" products.The new products, which are being rolled into Tesco and Boots now, include cereal, wholegrain bread mix, wheat...
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NewsTyrrells founder eyes export market with patriotic debut in gin
William Chase, the founder of Tyrrells, who sold his potato chips business for an estimated £40m last April to private equity firm Langholm Capital, is venturing into gin for the first time with William's - a super-premium gin with a patriotic...