All Hot beverages articles – Page 60
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Lager and Export relaunches key to C-T's £45m battle plan
Tim Palmer Carlsberg-Tetley has topped the league of big spending brewers by announcing a staggering £45m budget for its two key lager brands this year. The giant spend beats the £42m Interbrew is putting behind Boddingtons and Stella Artois, and...
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It may be the oldest drink on earth, but this month's trawl
Staying with the battle of the sexes in drinks, Taiwan firm Uni Président has launched his' and hers' premium coffee drinks. His Café is a blend of strong Mandheling coffee with 50% milk and sugar, while Her Café is a similar blend but with more...
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PG Tips' Chimps It was the end of monkey business for Unil
The Bisto Kids First introduced in 1919 and created by the famous cartoonist Wilf Owen, the kids' cast-off, cut down clothes were a depiction of post war depression. Their mischievous antics in press ads made them cult figures, although they were...
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character assassination
n Tetley has joined a growing list of manufacturers who are bravely ditching much-loved product characters in favour of fresh campaigns. Simon Mowbray asks if it is the end of the road for our brand icons Something rather sinister is happening...
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Hot Beverages
Hot beverages, a market which includes coffee, tea and food drinks such as drinking chocolate and malted products, continued to see growth. Sales rose 1.4% to £1.1bn this year across the total category. Coffee has continued to take share from what…
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No quick fix for a footie fan in need of coffee
The shop at Welcome Break's Keele services was voted tops by our mystery shopper who was charged with the task of checking out the facilities along the M6. The mission was simple: to see how easy it was to buy a quick snack meal on a Saturday...
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Tea Folk relegated to the bench as Tetley's up for a champio
Simon Mowbray Tetley is to embrace life without its Tea Folk icons by launching a £15m multi-media campaign. As exclusively revealed in the news pages of The Grocer this week, the tea maker is ditching its famous cartoon characters after 28 years...
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Gift shop and tea rooms
It would be difficult to find a more pleasant place to own a business than Launceston in Cornwall, according to Christie & Co. Bodmin Moor borders the ancient market town to the west. Dominated by its Norman castle, it is the acknowledged gateway...
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Value and volume sales of tea fell following a period of pri
Tetley stepped up its campaign, including participation in Safeway price deals. This helped push value sales for Tetley up by 8% with sales in Safeway very strong. Whilst mainstream tea brands fell 6%, speciality teas such as green and organic...
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Old favourites dress to kill while the giants wrestle over a
Some old favourite brands got dressed up this year. Schweppes mixers and Nescafé both got their first packaging revamp in 20 years, while four-finger Kit Kat and Cadbury Dairy Milk both had shiny new flow-wrap outfits. Hovis loaves sported new...
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A HIERARCHY WITH A REAL POINT OF DIFFERENCE
What do Nestlé Harvest Home cereals, Lyons coffee, Plumrose cooked meats and Princes Geebee drinks have in common? They are just some of the secondary brands now being sold exclusively by Kwik Save as part of the bottom up range reviews conducted by...
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Miniature cigar brand Café Creme is getting a price promotio
Clipper has launched a new Organic Decaffeinated Tea. Rsp: £2.59 for 40 bags. The Enjoy Organic Company has brought out 150g bags of tortilla chips in chilli and cheese and onion. Rsp: £1.29. Facial tissue brand Kleenex has activated its...
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Hot can gets out of hand
Nestlé has lost control of trials of its new self-heating, ready-to-drink can of Nescafé Original as supermarkets nationwide snap up supplies. The trials of Nestlé's new Hot when you Want' coffee were originally intended to be limited to retail...
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I drink at least four cups of coffee per day, black with no
The packaging is perfect; elegant bottles (which incidentally have an amazing non drip pouring capability) that would look great a few sizes smaller co-habiting a presentation box with some coffee beans and a grinder. How many weeks until Christmas?...
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Entenmann's returns to the coffee shop
Entenmann's will continue to push its products into a wider variety of eating occasion next month with a launch and a redesign. It will introduce a new range of premium Café-Style Muffins which are targeted at snackers particularly at tea or...
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M&S Café Revive goes into packs
Marks and Spencer is looking to build on the success of its instore café concept Café Revive with the launch of retail packs of coffee under the same brand. Made from Arabica beans ground at ultra cool temperatures within minutes of roasting,...
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Nescafé is given a £10m pick-me-up
Simon Mowbray Nestlé is to back the relaunch of its flagging Nescafé Original instant coffee brand with a £10m marketing campaign. The massive support means total spending on the revamp could now top £30m. Most of that sum has already been spent...
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Twinings drops in
Twinings has embarked on a 250,000 household sampling drop for its teabags. The company has enlisted the services of the Leaflet Company to deliver the samples to tea lovers and "expand their repertoire of preferred brews". Using Twinings customer...
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Green tea and lime give an instant Lift
Instant fruit tea brand Lift has welcomed a new variety to its stable with the launch of Instant Green Tea & Lime. Marketing manager Steve Richards said green tea was the fastest growing sector in the tea market, with an increase of 200% year on...
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NPD: heads froth with refreshing innovation
From infusions and iced tea to speciality instants and high caffeine offerings... The better-for-you factor is one of the key motivators in the rush of new products to the marketplace. Ingredients with health-giving benefits, vibrant packaging and...