All Hot beverages articles – Page 47
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Unilever demands price hikes on 100 top items
Unilever has stunned the grocery industry by demanding double-digit price hikes on many of its well-known tea and savoury food brands.The biggest increases include Ragù sauces, which are to go up 21%, 24 lines of PG Tips (10% to 15%...
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NewsM&S going retro for 125th anniversary
Marks & Spencer is celebrating its 125th birthday with the launch of a raft of retro food and drink products - some of which it hasn't sold for years. Biscuits, tea and jam in limited-edition packaging will hit shelves on Monday alongside...
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NewsCan Packer's plans really put the 'oo' back into Typhoo?
With £48m of debt, loss-making Typhoo looks to be in hot water but CEO Keith Packer says he can make the business break even in 18 months, writes Chloe Smith
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Typhoo boss says recovery plan will reduce £10m loss
The new chief executive of Typhoo has insisted the company still has a future, despite making a £10.3m loss and breaching its banking covenants. Keith Packer told The Grocer the company had the full backing of its shareholders - even though...
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Skinny Candy heads for the mainstream
Confectionery group Glisten has teamed up with Sahar Hashemi, the founder of Coffee Republic, to launch a new low-calorie confectionery range for fashion-conscious women.A limited selection of Skinny Candy products was previously available...
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Advertising: PG Tips puts £1.6m into pyramid ad
The tea and coffee category has been a hotbed of activity since the start of the year, with big spenders Kenco and PG Tips investing more than a million pounds each in an attempt to exploit the cold weather and the staying-in trend
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NewsWaitrose in for Paddy & Scott's debut
Gourmet coffee brand Paddy & Scott’s has secured its first major retail listing with Waitrose. The brand’s three-strong range, rsp £3.95, aims to help consumers differentiate between blends by highlighting whether they are best drunk in the...
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NewsNescafé gets stronger with rising bean count
Nestlé is embarking on a £24m relaunch of its entire Nescafé coffee range, The Grocer can reveal. The company will kick off its campaign by reformulating its 71-year old Nescafé Original brand in a bid to rejuvenate flagging sales. It had...
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Other Movers 31/1/09
Rob Gater has been appointed senior national account manager of Merchant Gourmet. He joins from independent coffee roaster Matthew Algie & Co, where he looked after clients including Marks & Spencer, Sainsbury's and Prêt A Manger.
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Can own label make its mark?
C-stores have woken up and smelled the own-label coffee and are now making shelf space alongside the brands, reports Beth Phillips
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Ad of the Week: Andrex fakery is hardly a shock to the cistern
The Andrex puppy is unquestionably among the elite of animal advertising – alongside the PG Tips chimps, the Milka cow (did we ever find out why it was lilac?) and the sadly extinct Hofmeister bear, whose hatted head may now hang above the desk of...
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Ad of the Week: Monkey's christmas message
You can't stop progress. And PG Tips has come a long way over the years, its tea-sipping chimps of the 1950s (and 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s) clambering out of adland's primordial soup and evolving into the TV dream team of hernia-voiced funnyman Johnny...
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Commodities: Drop in trading and costs grinds down price of coffee
Commodity coffee prices are finally falling after a long period of sustained growth, reports Mintec's Andrew Larkham
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Tchibo cancels supermarket concessions
Coffee-to-clothing retailer Tchibo is to scrap its concessions in Sainsbury's and Somerfield. The German chain has around 100 concessions in the supermarkets, but said it would end its association with Sainsbury's and Somerfield by the end of 2009...
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Lipton launches fruit and herbal tea bags
Unilever is pinning its hopes on a new range of fruit and herbal teas boosting sales of its globally successful Lipton brand in the UK.The company predicted that the nine-strong Lipton Fruit & Herbal Infusions range, which is launched next...
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NewsCritical Eye... on Mitch, Matt and too many mates
Remember the Peter Kay airport sketch where he’s trying to explain that the bag of white powder in his luggage is Coffee-Mate and the customs officer responds “I’m not your mate”? “He’s not your mate” is what I wanted to scream on Monday...
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Critical Eye... on wittering Whittingstall, the seasonal crusader
I’m not going to beat about the bush, I’ve always disliked Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall – posh, earnest types have never been my cup of tea – and my tolerance was tested to the limit with the return of River Cottage last week (8pm, Channel 4, 16...
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Advertising: The battle for autumn’s top cuppa begins
Things have hotted up in the tea and coffee sector over the past few weeks. Advertising spend across the category has tripled to more than £3.2m compared with the same period last year. Yet, before this period, spend had been tracking at about 25%...
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Revels greets its mystery newcomer
From next month, coffee Revels will be temporarily replaced by a new mystery variant – thought to be strawberry because of the pink colouring on the limited-edition packs. The launch of Revels Mystery Sweet packs, which will be on shelf until the...
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Premium look and flavours for Galliano
The Italian liqueur brand Galliano is to follow up a relaunch of its original brand with two new flavours in early 2009. The newcomers are Balsamico, with balsamic vinegar, and Ristretto, with robusta and arabica coffees. The main herbal liqueur is...