All Hot beverages articles – Page 40
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Douwe Egberts makes debut in refill packs
Douwe Egberts is following the lead of other major coffee brands with the launch of refill packs. Two variants of its Instants Pure range Pure Gold and Pure Indulgence will be in Asda and Morrisons nationwide in refill packs from this...
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DCS welcomes Smith Coats as head of sales
Personal care wholesaler DCS Central has appointed Bill Smith Coats as head of sales. Smith Coats was head of impulse sales and Tesco business unit manager at Typhoo. Previous to this, he worked at SHS Sales & Marketing as a national...
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Britain's 100 Biggest Brands 2011: Nescafé to Robinsons
Already Britain’s biggest coffee brand, Nescafé increased its share of the instant coffee market last year, notching up a healthy 3.5% increase in value...
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Britain's 100 Biggest Brands 2011: Kenco to Comfort
Owner Kraft Foods says the growth of Kenco is down to the Starbucks generation having an appetite for premium coffee, and is now pushing Millicano...
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Comment & Opinion
Children of the revolution
Grocer Towers is often the scene of fearsome debate, as our newshounds compare leads, dissect the strategies of the companies we write about and, most commonly, row about whose turn it is to make the tea.
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NewsCoffee Nation to take Costa into self-serve
Coffee Nation, which operates self-service coffee machines in c-stores and forecourts, has been acquired by Costa Coffee owner Whitbread for £59.5m. Whitbread said it would use Coffee Nation as a vehicle to launch Costa Express Costa...
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Comment & OpinionAd of the Week: Aldi’s own-label angel takes a swing at the champ
Thankfully we live in a more tolerant age than when folk hid in kitchens making chugging noises and frothing at the mouth like a possessed Frenchman to convince guests they weren't serving instant coffee.
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Analysis & FeaturesFairtrade: A fairer share for all
Bananas, Dairy Milk and even condoms (in Waitrose from this week). It’s official – Fairtrade’s gone mainstream. But how much are farmers benefiting? Ahead of Fairtrade Fortnight, Beth Phillips visited a cocoa co-operative in Ghana and Sarah Butler met coffee farmers in Uganda to find out
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NewsUnilever promises fresher tea under its PG Tips brand
Unilever is hoping to inject fresh value into the commoditised tea market with a "major innovation" under its PG Tips brand. Next month sees the launch of The New Ones, a range of three black teas made using new patented technology to...
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NewsTetley Facebook site links to tea growers
Tetley has teamed up with Facebook to allow shoppers to communicate directly with tea growers in Malawi as it seeks to boost its ethical credentials. Tea farmers and estate workers will use phones and cameras provided by Tetley. The move...
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Focus On Fairtrade: Innovations
This is the UK's first triple-certified (Fairtrade, Organic and Rainforest Alliance) freeze-dried coffee. It is 100% Peruvian, retailing in Booths for £3.29.
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Analysis & FeaturesAcid Test: Douwe Egberts Aromettes
The single-portion blocks of coffee would appeal to the one in four UK instant coffee drinkers who think ground coffee is “too difficult to make”
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NewsDouwe Egberts guns for ground coffee fans
Douwe Egberts hopes to take the grind out of making ground coffee with the launch of a compressed ground coffee tablet a UK first, it claims.
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NewsYorkshire Tea shares joy of a proper brew with Brits in America
Yorkshire Tea has swapped the Dales for the desert highway as part of a new campaign that pokes fun at the bad quality tea Brits have to put up with abroad. The Bettys & Taylors of Harrogate company has invested £3m in the...
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ProfilesMy alternative CV: Simon Fry, marketing director of RH Amar
Simon Fry, marketing director of RH Amar, on coffee, comedians, and a little sprinkle of stardust
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NewsUnilever has got the hots for emotional PG Tips marketing
The classic English cuppa is set for a stiff upper lip-quivering marketing makeover, as PG Tips attempts to find the emotional side of tea. In a bid to drive loyalty into a tea category suffering from long-term volume decline, Unilever...
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NewsUS giant set to stir up own-label tea market
The world's biggest own-label tea company wants to stir up excitement in the UK market following the acquisition of a small Dorset company. The US-based Harris Tea Company acquired Wimborne-based own-label tea business Keith Spicer on 31...
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NewsClipper Teas revamps for consistency
Clipper Teas has revamped its hot chocolate and coffee lines to create a consistent look across its portfolio. The new-look products, rolling out now, feature hand-drawn designs in line with Clipper's tea packaging, which was updated in...
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Kopiko brings coffee flavour sweets to UK
A coffee-flavoured sweet is launching in the UK to link into the nation’s growing thirst for the beverage.
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News‘Starbucks’ and ‘coffee’ missing from chain’s new logo
Starbucks has unveiled an unfussy new logo that does away with the words ‘Starbucks’ and ‘Coffee’.