All Hot beverages articles – Page 48
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Nestlé changes pack on Fairtrade coffee
Nestlé is ditching the cardboard-style canister used for its Partners' Blend Fairtrade coffee and is moving it into more traditional glass jars in a bid to kickstart sales of the brand.From next month, Partners' Blend will be transferred...
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Douwe Egberts brings out liquid coffee range
Douwe Egberts is hoping to get consumers to switch from standard instant coffee and powdered speciality drinks to its new liquid coffee range, which promises a vastly improved drinking experience.Called Café Switch, the newcomer...
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Store chains must wake up and smell the coffee
This week, National Statistics released new figures revealing that household spending on food and drink products consumed outside the home had more than doubled to £87.5bn from 1992 to 2004. During the same period, spending on fresh and...
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Nescafé offers free fashion for a year
Nescafé is teaming up with TV styling duo Trinny and Susannah for a new addition to its marketing ensemble - the chance for consumers to win a year's worth of fashion. From next month, Nescafé packs will sport a promotion offering...
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Smoothie makers unite to challenge VAT laws
It may be the silly season, but the story that has been rumbling on about VAT on Marks and Spencer's tea cakes has to be one of the more ludicrous narratives the industry has encountered, any time of year. We first covered this tale of tax woe...
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Speciality tea
Nowhere is there more activity within the hot beverages market than in speciality teas. New fruit, herbal and green teas are being launched at an astonishing rate and although sales growth is good it's from a very low base. According to...
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Muddy future for instant?
Sales of standard coffee may have been stagnant over the past year, but they are still significant. TNS data values the standard instant coffee market at £425m [52 w/e 18 June 2006], giving it a 32% share of the hot beverages...
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Decaffeinated
Concerns about health have been good news for the decaf market as consumers look to reducetheir caffeine consumption. The market will no doubt have been helped by a recent BBC news story that said drinking decaf coffee can lower the risk...
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CONSUMER FEEDBACK
The fragmentation of tastes in the tea market is becoming ever more apparent with the growing popularity of fruit blends, some of which are achieving wider appeal and above-average ratings as consumers adopt lighter tastes.Increasingly...
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Speciality coffee
Sales of posh coffee are up. According to TNS, the roast and ground category was up 12% to £116.6m [52 w/e 18 June], while speciality instant coffee was up 19% in the same period to £90m.Grant Rosewarne, MD of Douwe Egberts, says this is...
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Break escape for new lines
We may be a nation of tea and coffee drinkers, but if consumers are increasing their consumption of a cup of 'rosie lee' or a hit of strong black stuff, they are not drinking it at home.While TNS figures show healthy value growth of 2.7%...
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There's always time for tea
Tetley customer marketing manager Simon Attfield is fed up with people sounding the death knell for tea. He says: "Every year we hear it's the end for tea, but in truth the tea market is flat. In fact, it is coming back into favour...
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Consumers always game to try out new hot drinks
How do consumers view such a well-established category as hot beverages? We asked shopper behaviour expert Visuality to research their shopping habits.Its research found that the majority of consumers shop at least once a month for tea...
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looking back What we said in 1995
In The Grocer's Focus on Tea and Coffee (11 November 1995), the issue of falling consumption of tea was high on the agenda, although the signs were that decline was being arrested.Sales of tea had dropped steadily since 1987, but...
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Spar shopenterprise
BWG Group, which operates the Mace and Spar franchises in the Irish Republic, has always been recognised as a market leader. And the launch last December of a pioneering new Spar format - complete with juice bar, coffee concession and...
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In Brief: Fairtrade Foundation; Gielsen for finance; Dach joins Wal-Mart; Ioannou quits CCHBC; Acting for farmers
Fairtrade Foundation Silver Kasoro-Atwoki, director and chairman of the Mabale Growers Tea Factory in Uganda, has been appointed to the board of the Fairtrade Foundation. Kasoro-Atwoki said: "The UK is a very important market for African tea producers. I hope to...
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Time to get into the grove
In the 1950s and 1960s, bread and dripping was a teatime staple. Mum had cooked the roast beef or pork for lunch and served up the leftover fat and juices, spread on bread, for tea.But how times change - today's equivalent is a much...
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Michael Brooks
What is your career background?I was a chartered accountant but joined forces with my old school friend Angus Cameron to launch a coffee company that supplied coffee beans and machines to London restaurants. In 1992 we decided to...