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Guide ToThe Grocer Guide to Snacking 2022
Despite the current uncertainty over HFSS legislation, there is so much more influencing the snacking category, including health, ingredients supply and the cost of living crisis.
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Guide ToThe Grocer Guide To Christmas
Despite the UK’s cost-of-living crisis and HFSS helping to spoil the in-store parade, consumers always find ways to indulge and celebrate at Christmas, even on a restricted budget.
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Guide ToThe Grocer Guide To Store Cupboard & World Foods
Food inflation, the cost of living crisis and hybrid working are continuing to spur consumers to retain at-home cooking habits developed during the pandemic lockdown – and their tastes are increasingly adventurous.
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Guide ToThe Grocer Guide To Household, Hygiene & Personal Care
Following explosive sales during the pandemic, a more normal trajectory is returning to the household, hygiene & personal care category. However, consumers have retained some of their cleanliness habits and their trust in brands is evident.
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Guide ToThe Grocer Guide To Franchise & Fascia
With competition in the symbols and franchise arena as fierce as ever, leading players are choosing different strategies – from delivery to data-driven insights – to attract independent retailers to their folds.
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Guide ToThe Grocer Guide To Protein & Functional Foods
With consumers focused on promoting mental and physical wellbeing in the wake of the pandemic, category growth for protein & functional foods looks assured, despite the cost of living crisis.
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Guide ToThe Grocer Guide To Beer & Cider
Flavour innovation and premiumisation are two of the major trends set to continue spurring the beer & cider market forwards. However, the low- & no-alcohol sector, while small, is also making its impact felt as an increasing number of suppliers join the bandwagon.
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Guide ToThe Grocer Guide To Tobacco, Vaping & Accessories
Category suppliers are increasingly focused on developing alternatives to traditional tobacco that closely replicate the latter’s experience. But the sheer diversity in the market requires a more consultative approach from retailers, they say.
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Guide ToThe Grocer Guide To Free From & Plant Based
With competition in the free-from & plant-based category heating up, some suppliers are welcoming the growth trajectory, as it brings more awareness, while others are concerned about too much product proliferation.
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Guide ToThe Grocer Guide to Breakfast
Health and convenience are proving key drivers for shoppers when it comes to breakfast and brunch in a newly reopened UK market. However, hybrid working and trends established during lockdown will see consumers continue to embrace at-home family and weekend socialising occasions, giving suppliers plenty of opportunity across the board.
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Guide ToThe Grocer Guide To Packaging
Growing environmental awareness, government legislation on plastics and increasing e-commerce are all driving change in packaging sustainability, as brands compete to win the hearts and minds of tech-savvy consumers.
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Guide ToThe Grocer Guide To Petcare
Growing pet ownership in the last two years has boosted sales in the petcare category, but inflation-driven cost of living challenges over the year ahead mean owners may need to balance their budgets carefully, despite a desire to prioritise their pets’ health and welfare.
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Guide ToThe Grocer Guide To Cheese
As the UK market returns to relative normality, cheese suppliers are stepping up efforts to meet varying consumer demands on myriad occasions, from snacking to meat alternatives to indulgence. Yet there are some challenges on the horizon.
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Guide ToThe Grocer Guide To Confectionery
While the on-the-go impulse market is returning, as Covid-19 restrictions ease, hybrid working and the ‘big night in’ moments are continuing to spur sharing bag sales. But now the category is facing into the looming challenge of HFSS regulation.
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Guide ToThe Grocer Guide To Hot Drinks & Cold Brew
Hot drinks suppliers continue to garner popularity for their brands, as they broaden their selections to cater for different consumer mood states and occasions. Meanwhile, the cold brews sector is gaining increasing traction in the UK.
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Guide ToThe Grocer Guide To Soft Drinks
Impulse on-the-go purchases in soft drinks are recovering as Covid-19 restrictions ease. Yet consumers’ renewed focus on health, as well as HFSS legislation on the horizon, means soft drinks with functional benefits or energising properties are driving the category.
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Guide ToThe Grocer Guide To Bread & Baked Goods
Despite the easing of Covid-19 restrictions, bread & bakery suppliers consider the at-home occasions adopted by consumers will continue to retain importance, with the market being driven by premium products and innovation.
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Guide ToThe Grocer Guide To Frozen
With at-home consumers increasingly appreciating the versatility and convenience of frozen food, the category has come into its own of late. Yet there is still much work to do at retail level to maximise the opportunity, say suppliers.
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Guide ToThe Grocer Guide To Tobacco, Vaping & Accessories
Covid 19 has seen a rise in younger adults taking up smoking of combustible cigarettes, with stress and boredom cited as key factors. But as the UK emerges from lockdown, a renewed focus on health suggests vaping and alternatives will flourish again.
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Guide ToThe Grocer Guide To Snacking
A post-lockdown consumer focus on health & wellbeing coupled with upcoming high-fat, salt and sugar (HFSS) legislation mean snack suppliers are upping their game to create products that offer functionality and permissible indulgence, as competition in the market heats up.