Health insight and analysis – Page 61
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Analysis and Features
C-stores pull in celebratory shoppers in the heatwave
The Grocer/Him! Shop Waves survey shows shoppers heading to c-stores in party spirit – but health is also on their minds…
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Comment and Opinion
End of the nanny state?
After years of clamour for state manipulation of eating habits, a health minister has rejected dietary micro-management…
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Comment and Opinion
"So far, there has been little sign of the industry rising to the challenge"
It has been encouraging to see the spotlight back on children’s food in the past couple of weeks…
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Comment and Opinion
What cost changing the food system?
For years, public health people thought if they provided figures on the cost of poor diets, policymakers would respond…
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Analysis and Features
Where now with the booze and fags, health minister?
The Grocer talks exclusively to health minister Anna Soubry on the government’s agenda on health – and progress to date…
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Category Report
Suppliers get behind the health agenda
With health the number one consideration for consumers according to Kantar, brands have had to shape up…
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Category Report
Going to extremes
Vimto Soft Drinks is set to launch a new energy drinks brand under licence from the Extreme Sports Company.
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Profiles and QandAs
A rare ray of sunshine for cigars
With the cigar category in decline, STG is focusing on smaller formats, value for money and roll-your-own…
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Comment and Opinion
Nutritional labelling is just one influence on consumers
“Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise,” wrote Keats…
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Comment and Opinion
A label rule straitjacket
The new government-approved layout for front-of-pack nutrition labelling represents the culmination of months of hard work…
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Comment and Opinion
Traffic-light front-of-pack labels will bring huge benefits
On Wednesday the UK governments launched a traffic-light nutrition labelling scheme for front-of-pack…
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Analysis and Features
Does a big regulatory stick loom for the e-cig market?
The MHRA is pouncing but Brussels may take a different view on the fast-growing electronic cigarette market…
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Comment and Opinion
Isn't hybrid labelling going to confuse consumers further?
The industry finally saw the lights at the end of the labelling tunnel this week…
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Analysis and Features
Satfat reduction challenge: Scotland bites deeper
Scotland’s draft framework to tackle obesity includes prescriptive category-wide reformulation targets…
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Category Report
Focus on healthcare: Innovations
Two weight-loss supplements have been combined into one “natural weight-loss product”, Raspberry Ketones and Green coffee Bean Extract…
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Category Report
Focus on healthcare: shoppers turn stockpilers
The vitamins, minerals & supplements (VMS) market continues to see slight growth.
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Category Report
Focus on healthcare and supplements
It’s a healthy picture for cost-conscious vitamin fans: specialists have lost chunks of market share to the discounters and multiples…
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Analysis and Features
TB reactor meat: where retailers and suppliers stand
The Grocer asked retailers and suppliers to spell out their policies on cattle that have tested positive for bovine TB…
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Comment and Opinion
Conservatives' tobacco smoke signals are not encouraging
Stupidly, I had begun to think that nothing politicians did would amaze me any longer…