All Hot beverages articles – Page 56
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Company Profile More Food
When Caron Howe started baking cakes at her small family-run coffee shop in Chichester in 1992, she could never have known that 14 years later her culinary skills would have snowballed into a £1m-a-year business. Having noted the local...
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Company profile - More Food
When Caron Howe started baking cakes for her small family run coffee shop in Chichester in 1992, she could never have known that 14 years later her culinary skills would have snowballed into a £1m a year business.Having noted the local...
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Coca-Cola in review of health credentials
Coca-Cola is embracing new drinks - including coffee - as part of its global strategy to counter a slump in its signature fizzy drinks sales. The company is tackling the might of Starbucks with an entry into the lucrative coffee shop...
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Product: Pure Blue Water Company: Pure Blue Launch date: March 2005
A trip in an old boat all the way from Cornwall to the Canaries may not be everybody's cup of tea, but then not everybody would have the guts to create and launch a new brand into the already crowded water category, which is dominated by big...
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Schwartz adds spice to the television mix
Schwartz is aiming to shake up the herbs and spices category with a merchandising strategy focusing on the themes of simplify, segment and inspire, as well as £4.3m of TV advertising. It is sponsoring C4's tea-time programmes featuring...
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A place in the sun
Wandering past vineyards and olive groves, eating local ostrich meat with locally grown okra and chillis, plucking apricots and almonds from well-tended orchards, sipping tea from a plantation down the road... you might think you were holidaying...
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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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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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A mug's game for Rombouts filters
Individual filter coffee brand Rombouts is being given a fresh new look as well as new mug size portions to attract younger consumers to the range.A contemporary look is being introduced across its coffee filter lines. In...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...