All Crisps, nuts and snacks articles – Page 80
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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...
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NewsBuilder's Breakfast 'was very complex'
Walkers has revealed that the winner of its Do Us a Flavour competition is one of the most complex crisp flavours it has ever made. More than a million consumers voted in the competition, but Builder's Breakfast won the 22% majority of votes...
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Hot Topic: Walkers does itself a very big favour
Never mind the actual winner - Walkers' Do Us A Flavour was a sensational PR coup, says Charlie Wright
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NewsBuilder’s Breakfast wins Walkers new flavour contest
Voters have crowned Builder’s Breakfast as the winner of Walkers’ brand-building ‘Do us a Flavour’ campaign.
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Walker's WPD aims to boost clout of DBC
A new company led by Iceland boss Malcolm Walker has completed its takeover of DBC Foodservice and plans to turn it into "the best service-orientated foodservice business in the UK".
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Crisps from God's own county
You can take the crisps out of Yorkshire, but you can't take the Yorkshire out of the crisps. Nicolette Allen reports on a regional business with international aspirations