All Hot beverages articles – Page 48

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    Trends & Developments

    2007-09-15T00:00:00Z

    ?Percol rushed the first Guatemalan coffee crop down the mountains in June this year to market it as a coffee equivalent to Beaujolais Nouveau. The Fairtrade and organic brand's New Harvest Guatemala uses Arabica beans grown at an altitude of...

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    Decaf

    2007-09-15T00:00:00Z

    Decaffeinated coffee may be in need of an energy injection. Retailers are more positive, however, about decaffeinated tea. The decaffeinated coffee sector registered a slight decline of 0.8% last year, according to Nielsen [MAT w/e 14...

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    Speciality coffee

    2007-09-15T00:00:00Z

    Roast and ground coffee suppliers are laughing as consumers become more discerning and prepared to pay more. "Consumers are becoming more passionate and educated about coffee, actively seeking out premium quality," says David Rogers, sales and...

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    Campaign trail: Nestlé turned the spotlight on its Nescafé Collection

    2007-09-15T00:00:00Z

    Nescafé Budget: £2.7m Manufacturer: Nestlé Nestlé turned the spotlight on its Nescafé Collection brand with a £2.7m marketing push in March. The six-month campaign drew an analogy between taste and music, and press and poster...

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    Premium values are brewing

    2007-09-15T00:00:00Z

    Starbucks has done the coffee market a favour. Consumers now want the same standard of coffee at home and are rushing out to buy pod coffee machines such as Nescafé's Dolce Gusto, Douwe Egberts' Senseo and Kenco's Tassimo.As a result roast and...

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    Competition brewing in hot beverage aisles

    2007-09-15T00:00:00Z

    Kenco grabbed top spot last weekend with 25% of promotional activity in the top five hot beverages chart roundly beating Tetley, in second place with 19%. But it is Nescafé that once again takes the plaudits in the year-to-date chart with a...

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    Spotlight: Drink Me Chai aims to create exciting category

    2007-09-15T00:00:00Z

    Drink Me Chai is carving a new niche in the hot beverages market. Although it is positioned in the malt and instant hot beverage fixture, MD Amanda Hamilton believes it is creating an exciting category "which is a hybrid between tea and coffee...

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    Lipton unveils its Rainforest Alliance tea

    2007-09-08T00:00:00Z

    A Rainforest Alliance- certified tea has joined Unilever's Lipton portfolio in a move to stamp its authority on the ethical tea market. Lipton Kericho Estate Tea comes from Unilever's tea holdings in Kericho, Kenya. It has been...

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    Booker's economy lines hit £2m sales

    2007-09-08T00:00:00Z

    Booker is hailing the launch of its Euro Shopper economy range as a success after hitting the £2m sales mark in just two months.The range, which was launched in July, consists of 30 products such as Jaffa Cakes, tea bags and coffee. It...

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    campaign trail - A new £1.6m TV ad campaign for Mars confectionery brand Twix

    2007-09-03T00:00:00Z

    A new £1.6m TV ad campaign for Mars confectionery brand Twix aims to position it as the perfect tea break snack. Breaking this week, the activity forms part of a £3m campaign and features the strapline 'Twix. Two great tasting bars. Happy together'...

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    Major increase in coffee intolerance

    2007-08-25T00:00:00Z

    Coffee intolerance rates have more doubled in the past four years, according to new research. Five per cent of the population now suffer health problems after drinking coffee compared with 2% in 2003, said food intolerance testing company Yorktest....

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    100% organic tea on the go

    2007-08-15T00:00:00Z

    A new soft-drink manufacturer has claimed to have launched the UK's first 100% ready-to-drink green and white tea, brewed straight from organic leaves.Kenzai Europe's Organic Green Tea and Organic White Tea come in 330ml glass bottles...

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    Typhoo puts a new 'OO' into its TV ads

    2007-06-30T00:00:00Z

    The importance of a quality cuppa is the theme of a new £2.2m burst of TV advertising from Typhoo.The ads, which hit screens on 9 July, highlight Typhoo's updated look and reinforce the brand's traditional principles of quality,...

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    99 boast is 100 years too late

    2007-06-25T00:00:00Z

    In a press release this week, The Co-op proclaims proudly that its "iconic" 99 Tea brand is going Fairtrade.Laudable indeed. But what comes next doesn't quite add up. "The Co-op invented supermarket own labels at the turn of the last...

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    Unilever teas embrace the Rainforest Alliance

    2007-05-28T00:00:00Z

    Unilever is to buck the Fairtrade trend by labelling its entire range of bestselling teas with the Rainforest Alliance mark.The company, which buys 12% of the world's black leaf tea, said that by 2010 all its tea in Western Europe,...

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    harrogate's laststand vs. tesco

    2007-05-14T00:00:00Z

    Nobody cares about Tesco in Betty's Tea Rooms. Scones are buttered and Yorkshire tea sipped without a second thought of the UK's largest grocer. Down the road at Ramus Seafood Emporium, well-dressed customers have fish on their mind, not Sir...

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    Jackie Chan gives energy drink a kick

    2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

    An energy drink endorsed by kung fu film star Jackie Chan is heading to the UK

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    Make Mine a Builders makes it into top three

    2007-04-09T00:00:00Z

    PG Tips and Tetley continue to battle for the top spot in the tea category, with Tetley taking the honours in terms of promotional activity at the weekend, but PG Tips remaining narrowly ahead for the year. However, following last week's...

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    Clipper brews up oats for breakfast

    2007-04-09T00:00:00Z

    Clipper, the Fairtrade and organic tea manufacturer, is looking to capitalise on the popularity of oats by bringing out an organic oat and malt breakfast drink.Clipper plans to promote the benefits of the slow-acting energy release of...

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    Percol hires Mount for an adventure in coffee

    2007-03-31T00:00:00Z

    Wine guru Angela Mount has linked up with coffee producer Percol to encourage consumers to explore different flavours of coffee. Ex-Somerfield wine buyer Mount, whose tastebuds were once famously insured for £10m, will be working with...