All Crisps, nuts and snacks articles – Page 80
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Burts focuses on multipacks
Burts Chips is to concentrate its efforts on the multipack market following success in the multiples. The company is launching its first range of multipacks for adults and has revamped its range of kids’ multipacks. It has built a new factory to...
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Pot Noodle returns to taste and convenience
Pot Noodle is set to go back to basics with a £1.5m promotion next month targeting its core fans – “young lads who eat McDonald’s and toast,” according to brand owner Unilever. The company has abandoned its recent health-related marketing message...
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Pringles enters bagged snacks with Select lines
Procter & Gamble is launching a range of premium Pringles bagged snacks that will go head to head with Walkers Sensations and Kettle Chips – but could signal the demise of its own Gourmet range. P&G described the brand extension, which is launched...
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Harry Hill’s going nuts for Fairtrade
Comedian Harry Hill will launch a Fairtrade nut range this autumn. Hill has joined forces with Fairtrade nut company Liberation to develop the brand, Harry’s Nuts, which will hit shelves in September. The first to market will be a salted peanut...
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Spotlight: Yorkshire Crisps
The provenance of their potatoes can give crisp producers a key edge over the opposition these days, says the managing director of Yorkshire Crisps, Tony Bishop
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Acid Test: Organix Savory Pots
Organix Savoury Pots COMPANY: Organix RSP: £1.79 to £1.89 for a twin pack containing 2x120g or 2x130g
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Pickup appointed new sales director at UBUK
Former Hovis chief Dave Pickup has been named as the new sales director of McVitie’s and Hula Hoops manufacturer United Biscuits UK. In addition to heading up UBUK’s sales team, providing strategic leadership and driving the sales function of the...
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Health agenda drives potato sales forward
Concerted promotion of potatoes as a healthy food is being credited for a major surge in sales across the category over the past year – with even chips and crisps recording large increases. The fresh potato category is now worth £996m, up 6.4% in...
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Perfect Crunch crisps bring a taste of Egypt
Perfect Crunch, a new range of premium crisps, is entering the UK snack market this month aiming at adults. The crisps were a first for the UK, said company founder Mostafa El Baradei, because they were made from the Lady Rosetta potato...
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Research Notes
In the past year 'dairy' soya products such as milk, yoghurt and desserts have become increasingly popular, shaking off their image of being consumed only by health food nuts or those allergic to dairy. The sub-category has grown solidly...
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Climbing the ladder
What was your first ever job? I worked on Saturdays in the local newsagent when I was 15. I took care of the newspapers, lots of sweets, crisps and juice.Give us a quick rundown on your career. I joined the Kimberly-Clark graduate...
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Family connections behind Ryvita deal
Jordans, the cereal company, said it chose to merge with Ryvita because of the family values of its owner Associated British Foods (ABF).The two brands combined this week in a cashless deal that gave ABF 62% ownership of the new venture,...
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Jordans and Ryvita to merge
Cereals business Jordans is to merge with Associated British Foods' Ryvita business.Associated British Foods, which took a 20% stake in Jordans last year, will have a 62% interest in the combined business, with the balance held by the...
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Tyrrells and Kettle premium sales boost crisps category
Strong sales for premium crisp brands such as Tyrrells and Kettle have boosted the crisps and snacks category and helped counter the impact of obesity concerns.Sales in the overall crisps, nuts and snacks market were up 5.8% to £1.5bn...
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Ryvita and Burton's face off over snacks
Burton's Foods and Ryvita are going head to head with two major launches in the healthy savoury snacks market this summer.Burton's Foods is making its first move into savoury impulse snacks under its Bertolli licence next month,...
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Pringles Pocket Pack and Bite Size
The Pringles brand has been enhanced with two genuinely innovative and exciting pieces of NPD. New Pringles Pocket Pack and Rice Infusions Bite Size are both aimed at satisfying the increasing demand for Pringles in the single-serve snacks...
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Walkers Nonsuch to keep it in the family
Specialist toffee maker Walkers Nonsuch, which makes traditional toffee bars and twist-wrapped toffees, has appointed three new directors, all from the Walker family.Managing director Ian Walker's daughters Katie and Emma Walker and...
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Langholm eyes serious sales growth at Tyrrells
Tyrrells is to ramp up its distribution through the multiples -and may even seek listings in Tesco - in an attempt to double sales in the next few years.In an exclusive interview with The Grocer, new owner private equity firm Langholm...
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Langholm buys Tyrrells for £40m
The sale of premium crisp producer Tyrrells to private equity firm Langholm Capital has been completed.The deal believed to be worth £40m was first revealed by The Grocer at the beginning of March and was completed on...