All Crisps, nuts and snacks articles – Page 84
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A 'listening' culture reaps big rewards
The huge variety of products in the bagged snacks sector, which includes crisps, baked snacks, tortilla chips and nuts, means that it covers a wide range of needs, from food that is an occasional, sinful treat to products a nutritionist would...
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Marmite gets into bangers
In the wake of its success with Marmite-flavoured crisps and Guinness-flavoured Marmite, Unilever has teamed up with another supplier, this time to give a different sort of bang to the humble banger. Sausage producer Broad Oak has...
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Six of the Best: Bagged snacks
Star buyer: Adrian Gash senior buyer, crisps, snacks & nuts, waitroseGash has been with Waitrose for three years. He joined from Safeway, where he spent six years covering pharmaceuticals, bread and finally crisps. Gash says...
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Eureka - 28th April 2007
Product: Smoothie Bites Company: Mister Gorller Launch date: November 2006 Smoothies and cereals are already big success stories and a new snack product aims to combine the best of both. Smoothie Bites is looking to tempt snackers away from crisps,...
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Supermarkets accused of exploiting workers
Development agency ActionAid has accused supermarkets of exploiting overseas workers.Supermarkets were paying wages of as little as 5p an hour in some Bangladeshi garment factories, while cashew nut workers in India were being paid just 30p...
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Green label warerupts
Another labelling war looks a step closer after Tesco signalled it would not be adopting the Carbon Trust's new carbon footprint labelling scheme as it stands.As the Trust's label appeared on Walkers cheese and onion crisps for the first...
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Pringles Gourmet
This spring, Pringles, the UK's number-one social snacking brand [TNS 52 w/e 26 March 2006], has extended its premium Gourmet Pringles range with two new indulgent flavours: Wild Mushroom with Roasted Garlic & Parsley and Crumbling Mature...
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Golden Wonder gets set to return to glory
Golden Wonder crisps, former champion of the bagged snacks market, is gearing up for a UK relaunch with revamped packaging, improved flavours and a new campaign. From next month, the brand will reappear with a more contemporary pack...
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Walkers recalls Wotsits
Walkers has recalled a batch of Wotsits crisps because of a packaging error. Some packs of Really Cheesy Flavour Wotsits contain Flamin' Hot flavouring, so wrongly contain wheat and soya.The affected products are Walkers Wotsits...
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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...