All Crisps, nuts and snacks articles – Page 83
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Small label - big difference?
It's not often Tesco is beaten at its own game, but its plan to launch a carbon footprint label was trumped last month by a packet of cheese and onion crisps. Walkers crisps will become the first product to carry the new Carbon Trust label,...
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Walkers bags the lion's share of snacks activity
Walkers continues to dominate the crisps and snacks category, accounting for an impressive 46% of promotions in last weekend's Assosia survey of promotional activity. The PepsiCo brand has now taken the number one spot every week since...
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Come on Gordon, get with 5-a-day!
Media snapshots of Gordon Brown's eating habits reveal a man devoted to the serial consumption of Kit Kats. Our burly Chancellor certainly looks more like the sort of chap who would collapse in front of the TV with a mega-portion of popcorn and...
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discounts go into overload
You only have to look in the national newspapers each day to realise how important, and widespread, food and drink promotions have become for the retailers. On one randomly selected day we found Asda selling tubes of Pringles at...
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Availability
Asda Wembley2This store had run out of own-label quiche lorraine and Doritos Cool Original. Our shopper described staff as very friendly and they took him directly to an item when asked. There were a sufficient number of...
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Price Survey
The price gap narrowed again this week as Sainsbury's stole the top spot from Tesco, having been the second-cheapest for four weeks on the trot. Heavy promotional activity - including half-price Pringles - helped it to achieve £44.15 basket...
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Interstate buys pretzel maker Union
Union Snack - one of the UK's few pretzel makers - has been sold to a German snack company for an undisclosed sum. The County Durham-based company, which makes Penn State Pretzels, has been acquired by Intersnack of Cologne. Set up...
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Peperami slashes salt 16% in revamp
Unilever UK has relaunched its Peperami brand, including slashing the salt and fat content and updating the packaging. Salt levels have been reduced by 16% across the core range, while saturated fat has been cut by 10%. To...
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First crisps, now snacks slash the saturated fat
PepsiCo is reducing the saturated fat content of its Walkers bagged snack brands by 80% and cutting their salt content by a quarter, as part of its strategy to boost the health credentials of the Walkers portfolio. From next month its...
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Profile Revisited
If 2005 was a year of controversy for Jonathan Crisp, with its outrageous on-pack caricatures upsetting the Church of England and Buckingham Palace, then last year was one of growth and profitability. The company has spent the past 12...
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Aussies bounce in in with real balls
A new spherical snack is planning to do for cereal bars what the Aussie cricket team has done to the Poms. Bounce Balls, which are already a bestseller in Australian health stores, are sugar-free, don't contain artificial additives or...
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Pick a flavour any flavour
When Procter & Gamble launched a variant of Pringles for Morrisons late last year it was apparently attempting to tap into the tastes of the northern retailer's consumers. Packs depicted a rural scene of a farmer tilling the land against a...
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Co-op withdraws crisps
The Co-op has withdrawn all batches of its own-label multi-pack crisps because the ready salted flavour contains casein which is not declared on the label.Casein is unsafe for people with a milk allergy or milk intolerance.The...
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'Tesco was very naughty. So it needed a smack'
Who's afraid of the big bad Tesco? Not Will Chase, owner of snack foods company Tyrrells Potato Chips. He became the little pig who took on Tesco's wolf when he threatened the retailer with legal action for stocking his crisps without...
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Brand giants are listening
Coke, Walkers, Birds Eye, Magners and Pringles are among the major brands that have grown in value - in some cases spectacularly - this year, as the industry shows it can respond to consumer needs without government intervention. The...
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Snacks will get better for you
Bagged snacks have bounced back and once again experienced growth, helped considerably by the variety of better-for-you options now available.Growth at the premium end has also boosted sales. The total market for crisps, savoury snacks...
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Star Product: walkers baked will make the men happy
How could PepsiCo top last year's star product Walkers Potato Heads? By taking the principle of the healthier crisps and creating a brand that targets men, that's how. Walkers Baked lines, launched in the summer, demonstrate the...
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UBUK goes nuts with brands for New Year
UBUK is welcoming in the New Year with a range of snacking launches as well as slashing the saturated fat content across its crisps portfolio. New for 2007 is limited edition McCoy's Jackets, available from March. The crisps are made...