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South African satsumas have got the season off to a good sta
Currently fruit is making between £9-£10/10kg carton on wholesale markets with total UK shipments reaching 300,000 cartons. "Fruit is looking exceptional," agrees Paul Edwards, sales director of UK importer Eurofruit, based near Canterbury. He said...
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Starburst Splits
Rsp: 37p for single split pot Eden Vale will continue to supply the Starburst products from Nestlé's confectionery rival Masterfoods. Launched in October, sales of this fruit yogurt with separate serving of tangy fruit purée were highest in...
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Buying in all categories except meat, fruit and veg and cert
Asda is nearing completion of a transfer of its Asda@tHome home shopping operations from depot to store. It has upgraded all 13 stores and is scaling up the range of delivery slots. Sainsbury this week opened its 36th Local store in Battersea...
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Heinz waves its 5-A-Day credentials
Heinz is bidding to woo even more health-conscious consumers with a new healthy-eating initiative and an organic version of salad cream. The tinned foods giant yesterday launched a 5-A-Day' scheme, aiming to persuade consumers that more than 70 of...
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SALES ON A ROLL
Kellogg claims it is giving retailers the chance to "roll in the cash" with its biggest ever instant win promotion. The £1.5m giveaway on Real Fruit Winders is supported by a TV ad and more than a million instant win prizes. Beginning next month, ...
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Bacardi-Martini's Breezer squeezes ruby grapefruit for all i
Bacardi-Martini is following the trends in the fruit juice market for the latest brand extension of its Breezer premium packaged spirit range. Its introduction of a Ruby Grapefruit style is hoping to mirror the success of the flavour in the chilled...
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Waitrose flags up sources
Waitrose is individually identifying dessert apples by variety and source with a new colour coded sticker in a move which will rationalise the style of labels used across its full range. The first fruit with a new look, South African Royal Gala, is...
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The total meat free/vegetarian category is worth £539m (52 w
In this instance the category includes both chilled and frozen sectors, and products such as vegetable/meat free sausages, burgers, kievs, fillets, deli slices, pâté, samosas, meals, pies and some potato products. The chilled sector dominates...
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Danone gets the hump
Danone is to feature a camel called Harry in a new regional TV ad campaign for Volvic Touch of Fruit, part of a £9m marketing spend. Aimed at building brand awareness in Scotland and the north of England, the ads which include Harry pushing a...
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Fuller's follows Fusion's fruit trend with cranberry Organic
Another brewer is reacting to the challenge to its traditional markets from premium packaged spirits by introducing a fruit flavoured beer. Fuller's has chosen cranberry, one of the leading flavours in the PPS sector, for an extension of its...
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seedless GRAPE
New reds filling a niche Continuing demand for seedless grape has led to a massive investment programme by Paloma, one of the best known producer/exporter groups in the Murcia region of Spain. It is concentrating on specially selected red...
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Market shares by value
52 w/e 52 w/e Mar 4 '01 Mar 3 '02 Value (£000) Total market 784.8 843.9 Juice drinks 187.2 ...
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The fruit juice/juice drinks market is worth nearly £844m (5
Pure fruit juice is the largest sector in this market with a 55% share, which is growing at a faster rate than juice drinks in both value and volume. The greatest growth has come from one-shot juice/juice drinks, which have increased by 18.3% in...
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It's Easter Sunday, so it's off through the traditional holi
But what's this? Onions and shallots from Roscoff in Brittany alongside the gastronomic delights of Surrey and Sussex? Surely not? Don't tell Margaret Beckett, but the tasty product from across the Channel, which was once pedalled around Britain by...
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Coca-Cola fights back with lemon variant for Diet Coke
Mary Carmichael Coca-Cola is aiming to add fizz to the UK cola drinks sector with the launch of a lemon-flavoured variant of Diet Coke in June. The soft drinks giant hopes new Diet Coke with Lemon will boost the sector, which has been under...
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Poor weather has slowed the harvesting of Mediterranean new
It has forecast total annual imports (August-July) at 213,000 tonnes by the BPC, 6% up on last year. However, the figures do not tell the whole story, for the UK's imported new potato market is relatively inflexible and more so when the English...
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n Convenience food producer Suntrax Corporation of Kingst
n For over two generations, one of the oldest labels in Jamaica, Roberts, has been represented in the UK by Evans, Gray and Hood, part of the Kimpton's Group. The firm's wide portfolio ranges from ackees to guava jelly and tropical fruit punch...
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LIMONESCO GUARANTEE
Consumers are to be offered a full refund on Italian sparkling lemon drink Limonesco whether they like it or not! The brand has been repackaged and the new look bottle goes into the trade in mid-April. Featuring a neck collar promotion called the...