All HFSS articles – Page 47
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NewsScots to banish confectionery from checkouts
The Scottish government wants retailers to rid all checkouts of confectionery and steer price promotions away from HFSS…
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InterviewsMeet Maurizio Brusadelli, the mayor of Joyville
The Mondelez UK chief argues that far from diluting Cadbury’s Britishness, the Kraft deal has strengthened it…
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NewsLeading doctors call for tax on fizzy drinks and more restrictions on HFSS product ads
Soft drinks industry leaders have warned that a tax on fizzy drinks will not help tackle rising obesity levels and reiterated the financial burden it will place on cash-strapped shoppers.
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Category ReportFocus on cereal
The daytime TV ad ban hit sugary kids cereals hard. Now they are aiming for the sweet spot with healthier offerings. Will they hit it?
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Government to call for guilt-free supermarket checkouts
The government looks set to call on supermarkets to remove confectionery from tills as part of the Responsibility Deal….
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NewsFocus On Chilled Ready Meals: Chilled meals keep their cool
They may be pricey and not have the best health credentials but chilled ready meals have flourished in the downturn, not least due to vigorous retailer NPD, says Catherine Chetwynd
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Analysis & FeaturesProduct Placement: Brands get their big TV break
From Monday, brands will be able to pay to appear in British TV programmes for the first time. Insiders expect product placement to be worth £100m in five years. But what will the latter-day Hilda Ogdens be pushing? Rob Gray reports
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Comment & OpinionCritical Eye... on sadistic gameshows and vaudeville nudges
Tax the Fat (BBC One, Monday 8.30pm) sounded like a sadistic gameshow rather than a Panorama documentary. But the programme has been going that way for years.
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NewsMovie Marketing: Why brands are going movie mad
Clipper Tea went to Wonderland, Pom-Bear got cosy with Shrek and Müller dived into Sex and the City 2. The number of movie tie-ups has soared, but who’s chasing them, the brands... or the studios, asks Stuart Smith. When Shrek Forever racked up a cool $70m in its first weekend ...
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Comment & OpinionA little healthy debate
If you didn’t work in the industry it would easy to miss how hard food and drink companies have worked in recent years to keep shoppers in shape.
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NewsM&S salads panned in new salt report
Marks & Spencer salads have been slammed for their high salt content in a new report.
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NewsHow Weetabix can clean up with its choc-flavoured cereal
It turns milk chocolatey yet Ofcom is happy for it to be advertised on children’s TV. Alex Beckett weighs up what Weetabix Chocolate means for the market
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Comment & OpinionCritical Eye... on Heston's 70s sophistry
Heston Blumenthal’s gastronomic sophistry has always left me cold, and after subjecting myself to an early episode of the pug-faced one’s latest series, I’d gone out of my way to avoid subsequent offerings.
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Review of the Year 2008
At the start of the year, we said 2008 would be all about the credit crunch. We were right, only it was a crunch far worse than we - or any one else for that matter - had dared predict. As the global banking system reached near-meltdown, no-one in...
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The third man
Nick Clegg's views on food policy have firmer foundations than he has been given credit for, Liz Hamson reports
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Ad watershed Bill blasted as unnecessary and irrelevant
It is too early to consider extending the watershed on the ban on advertising 'junk food' to kids, experts have warned, ahead of a Second Reading this month of a Private Member's Bill calling for it to be changed to 9pm.Food and Drink...
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Cereal and dairy set for EU nutrient profiling reprieve
Pressure is mounting on the FSA to overhaul its Nutrient Profiling Model after the European Food Safety Authority told Brussels it believed an EU-wide model could exempt - or make special conditions for - HFSS foods that play a key role in the...
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Special case plea for gum
The panel reviewing the Food Standards Agency's Nutrient Profiling Model could give chewing gum an extraordinary exemption from the flawed tool, which underpins Ofcom's ban on advertising junk food to kids. The model rates all foods on the basis of...
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Lords' pre-9pm ad ban call is jumping the gun says DH
The government has distanced itself from a call by the Department of Health's chief whip to introduce a pre-9pm ban on the advertising of junk food.In a House of Lords debate on obesity, Baroness Royall of Blaisdon was asked by...
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The 10 LAST christmas AD campaigns?
The indulgence of the Christmas season approaches, but an air of potential gloom hangs over this year's big food and retail advertising campaigns. Maybe for the last time retailers and brand owners are spending the countdown to Christmas...