All articles by Daniel Woolfson – Page 41
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Waitrose ups its vegan and veggie game with host of new listings
The retailer is drafting in a host of new SKUs, such as Moving Mountains’ bleeding plant-based burger, oat milks from Minor Figures and baking kits from Bosh
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Mars adds vegan chocolate oat drink to dairy alternatives range
It rolls out into Asda next week in 250ml bottles
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Surya’s new Thai Dragon brand adds soy sauce to tackle shortages
It comes as June saw noticable shortages of soy sauce, with suppliers struggling to get hold of bottles amid surging demand from locked-down Brits
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CAMRA calls for competition watchdog to investigate Carlsberg-Marston’s deal
The group believes the merger will reduce the availability of beer to pub-goers
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Health campaigners urge PM to include unhealthy food ad ban in obesity crackdown
“The time has now passed for being soft on industries that ‘feed’ into the obesity crisis,” according to Action on Salt & Sugar
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Heineken under fire after extending keg beer shelf life
The brewing giant drew criticism from on-trade sources this week
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Tilda launches ready-to-heat Japanese-style teriyaki rice pouches
The limited-edition NPD combines sticky jasmine rice with spring onions, carrots, water chestnuts and an “authentic” teriyaki mix
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Mars unveils raft of launches in spreads and sports nutrition
The US fmcg giant has created a duo of peanut butters for M&M’s and Snickers
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Comment & Opinion
As sales rocket, what next for free-from food and drink?
It could be time for free-from alternatives to be ranged alongside their mainstream counterparts
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Soy sauce suppliers urged to make switch to amber glass bottles
Soy sauces have been flying off the shelves in lockdown, leading to a ‘huge upturn in demand for products in white flint clear glass’
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Category Report
Bare shelves: free-from category report 2020
Pre-lockdown panic buying pushed Brits to the free-from aisle in droves, leaving shelves naked for those with dietary requirements
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Aldi sees 50% hike in sales of free-from food and drink
Aldi now has a 5.7% market share - the largest of any non mult retailer, although Tesco still dominates with a 24.3% share of free-from sales.
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Non-alcoholic, low-calorie lager Unltd makes debut
The lager is the first beer from newly founded brand The Alcohol Free Brewing Company
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Japanese food supplier Yutaka mounts major makeover
A new look with the tagline ‘Start Your Japanese Adventure’ will roll out on Yutaka’s packs over the coming weeks
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Walkers: staff Covid-19 cases will not affect supply
The rise in cases reflected “the situation in the local community” and coincided with “the rollout and uptake of testing”, said a Walkers spokesman
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Tony’s Chocolonely adds Dark Milk chocolate
It’s billed as a ”delicious creamy milk chocolate bar with the bite and punch of decadent dark chocolate”
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Princes splashes £5m on three-year innovation plan
The fmcg giant has partnered with Cubo – a newly created innovation consultancy – to kick off a three-year project
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Pipers to take on Kettle and Tyrrells with big four expansion
The PepsiCo-owned brand – which its co-founder said over a decade ago would never be seen in Tesco – has quietly rolled into Sainsbury’s
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Frugalpac creates paper wine bottle with 94% recycled paperboard
Frugalpac said the bottle was already ‘under active consideration by a number of leading UK supermarket chains’