All Crisps, nuts and snacks articles – Page 86
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Milk Marque gets into health foods
Milk Marque's 12,000 British farmer shareholders are the new owners of a health food company selling dried fruit, nuts and seeds. Community Foods was purchased this week by Milk Marque, the shell of the former dairy co-operative that...
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Iceland's comeback kid
On the bookshelf in Malcolm Walker's otherwise unremarkable office at Iceland Foods HQ in Deeside, north Wales, sits a title oddly out of place among the grocery-related tomes. George IV: A Life in Caricature, lampoons the larger-than-life king...
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Walkers pulls Jamaica ad
PepsiCo has pulled an advert for its new Walkers Baked crisps and replaced it with those it showed for its standard lines after an anti-crisp campaign by the British Heart Foundation.The advert, due to air this week, shows thousands of...
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Crisps make mark - is it any Golden Wonder?
Crisps and snacks have remained consistent in the overall category chart remaining in 9th and 10th place accounting for approximately 4% of all featured space promotional activity recorded. The dominant brands in this category include Golden...
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Dr Oetker prescribes deep heat treatment
Dr Oetker is throwing down the gauntlet to frozen pizza competitors as it aims to reinvigorate the ailing deep-pan sector with a range positioned as "the holy grail of deep-pan bases". It is investing £6m to support its new The Deep Crisp...
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The Bratz get lippy with the Buddies
Bratz, the number one craze for tweenage girls, is making its debut in the biscuit aisle with a new Bratz Fabulous range from Bon Bon Buddies. Aimed at snacking and lunchboxes, the strawberry and vanilla-filled chocolate flavour biscuits...
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BHF warns of oil content in crisps
The British Heart Foundation has warned that children consume almost five litres of cooking oil a year if they eat one packet of crisps a day.The charity's warning is the second phase of its campaign aimed at highlighting the dangers of...
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Tesco and Tyrrells in crisps spat
Tesco has agreed to stop selling Tyrrells crisps after the brand owner threatened to sue it, according to reports.Will Chase, the founder of Tyrrells, accused the retailer of selling the crisps even though he had asked it not to. He...
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as nature intended
Iceland boss Malcolm Walker's influence in the retail industry apparently doesn't stretch as far as his daughter. Caroline Walker, managing director of As Nature Intended, is proud to say that she's done things her way,...
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In Brief: Cream of Kettle crop; Pringles wraps it up; The big squeeze; More for baby; Dormen goes nuts
Cream of Kettle crop Crème fraiche, lemon & coriander is the latest flavour to join Kettle Chips' ranks, offering consumers what the company said was an authentic dairy taste. Pringles wraps it up Procter &...
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Availability
Asda The Shires Centre, Trowbridge, Wiltshire1 The Asda store in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, was sold out of the 200g bag of Doritos corn chips when our shopper visited. The store also did not stock cheap own label butter and...
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Kellogg is back in the saddle again
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has given Kellogg the all-clear for an advertisement for its Crunchy Nut Corn Flakes cereal, despite receiving nearly 100 complaints from viewers who were concerned that it portrayed cruelty to...
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Snacks gain the Nak for a bit of rebellion
UBUK is aligning the Wheat Crunchies and Nik Naks brands it bought from Golden Wonder with its existing Discos and Skips lines for a four-pronged assault on the savoury snacks category.The company is relaunching both Wheat Crunchies and...
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Investment by Walkers in baked expectations
PepsiCo is extending its reach into the healthier snacks market with new baked crisps, backed by a £6m marketing campaign.Rolling out now, Walkers Baked are made from potato flakes rather than potato slices, baked rather than fried, and...
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20 Walkers Shortbread
Shortbread brand Walkers continued to blaze a tartan trail through the market last year.A look at our Top 50 table reveals that sales of its products have risen by more than £8m since 2004, shooting the company up three rungs to 20th...
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Crisps with an exotic flair
Devon-based potato crisps maker Burts is giving consumers a taste of Argentina with its latest flavour. Burts has used some Latin American flair for its Chorizo & Chimichurri variant, which it describes as a blend of sausage from the...
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Wacky jobs: From Chips chef to Ice cream taster
Crisps chef Chris Barnard Executive chef for NPD, Kettle Foods. A professional chef by trade, Barnard became the company's head chef after a chance encounter with Kettle Chips' US owner. Since then, he has embarked on a crusade to...
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Walkers rapped for salt claims
The Advertising Standards Authority has partially upheld complaints that a Walkers crisps leaflet made misleading claims about salt levels in its crisps.The leaflet said “we have reduced the salt in our crisps” and “our crisps now contain...
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Lion Capital to buy Kettle Chips
Private equity group Lion Capital is set to acquire crisp brand Kettle Chips this week.Reports suggest that the deal is thought to value the business at between $280m and $320m (£147m-£168m).The reports add that Lion Capital will use...