All Fresh produce articles – Page 111
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Apples fight for share as sales volumes fall
Apple consumption is falling as wide-ranging promotions on other fruit tempt shoppers to switch from the traditional favourite.Sales volumes of apples fell 3.2% to 501 million kgs in the year to May, TNS figures show. The market grew by...
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Organic fruit snack made just for kids
Ella's Kitchen is using the new school term to launch Pack'o'Snacks a new kids lunchbox range of 100% organic dried fruit packaged in pyramid-shaped boxes.The new range comprises three variants called The Chompy One, The Chewy One and...
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Sainsbury’s takes its fresh coffee Fairtrade
Sainsbury's has switched all its own-brand roast and ground coffee to Fairtrade, after doing the same with bananas, sugar and own-brand Red Label tea. The move would more than double the market for Fairtrade roast and ground coffee in...
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Onken ad campaign to promote flavours
Dr Oetker has launched a £500,000 advertising campaign for its Onken Fruit Big Pot yoghurts range. The three-month print campaign, which started on 31 August, will promote Onken's Big Pot fruit, wholegrain and limited-edition ranges. Two...
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Tyrrells flies the flag with new flavours
Patriotic fervour has gripped upmarket potato chip company Tyrrells, which has launched a new range of British flavours as part of a year-long Great British Campaign. The new additions Welsh Rarebit, Beef Wellington and Pork &...
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Exhilarating! Clothes with a fruity twist
Unilever is targeting "sensory junkies" with a fruit and flower-scented range of Comfort fabric conditioner concentrates backed by a £4m marketing spend.,...
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Egg imports hike sparks call to reassess sourcing
Manufacturers and retailers are being urged to source more British egg products after new figures revealed a 57% rise in imports. More than 100,000 tonnes of egg products were imported last year for use in goods ranging from ready meals...
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Found! targets cooks with new branded mushrooms
The UK's first mushroom brand is being launched to capitalise on the surge in foraging and home cooking.The Found! brand, supplied by Produce Global Solutions, will include a range of fresh and dried mushroom products. Two lines will be...
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Cheap and cheerful: carrot sales up 14%
The affordability and versatility of carrots have helped sales of the vegetable rise 14% in the past year.The market is now worth £260m [TNS 52w/e 9 August], with a 1% year-on-year increase in consumption to 3.8 million occasions [TNS,...
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Mushroom Bureau plans new campaign
A major campaign to encourage younger consumers to eat mushrooms is being planned for 2010. Growers' body The Mushroom Bureau has put out a tender for an agency to produce a campaign pushing the health benefits of mushrooms. The campaign...
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Ex-Innocent Brook launches Bear fruit and granola snacks
An ex-director of Innocent Drinks has set up Bear, a new range of baked fruit snacks that he predicts will claw £5m in sales over the first three years.After four years as Innocent's commercial director, Giles Brook departed earlier this...
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Bree brings surprise touch of glamour to £3m Rooster TV ad
Albert Bartlett has pulled off arguably the unlikeliest advertising coup of the year by signing Desperate Housewives star Marcia Cross as the new face of its Rooster potato brand.Cross, who plays Bree Van De Kamp in the hit American TV...
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In Season: Scottish garlic
The Really Garlicky Company is hoping the trend for home cooking will boost sales of its large clove varieties as it recovers from two poor years.
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Potato farmers fear dickeya disease will wreak havoc in UK
Fears are mounting that a disease that has devastated potato crops across Europe could take hold in the UK.
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Top fruit quality boosted by new Mansfield depot
Sainsbury's and Waitrose's apples and pears will have improved environmental credentials after a leading supplier to the stores completed an £8.5m storage and grading facility.FW Mansfield & Son's one hectare complex in Chartham,...
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Tangerine’s sweets get halal approval
Barratt Sherbet Fountains, Dip Dabs, Black Jacks and Fruit Salads are among 150 popular sweets brands to have gained halal approval.Tangerine Confectionery has received the Halal Seal of Approval for its Barratt, Mojo, Princess and…
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M&S squeezes size of baby lemons
Marks & Spencer is launching the smallest lemons ever sold on the UK high street. At just 30mm to 40mm wide, the lemons are half the size of the standard variety.
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Greencore’s godfather of pasta sauces
Greencore has introduced a branded range of chilled pasta sauces, Pacino's, to Sainsbury's and Asda.Asda has listed the tomato & basil, cheese, and tomato mascarpone variants, while Sainsbury's is carrying just the tomato & basil...
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Micro pear makes its M&S debut
M&S has taken a less-is-more approach to fresh produce retailing by launching one of the world's smallest pears.The Bambinella pears are just 25mm to 45mm wide and no bigger than a large cherry. They have never previously been sold...
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NewsCritical Eye... on the gazpacho gestapo and medicated pudding
I like to pretend I cook from scratch every day. So apart from an expensive M&S prepared salads habit that I refuse to give up (even if I do have to whip out the credit card), I generally don't spend extortionate amounts on food, and certainly...