All Industry Insight articles – Page 4
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Analysis and Features
Loyalty prices preferred to vouchers and price-matching and more loyalty insights
Shoppers love loyalty prices, our survey shows. But how genuine are the deals? And are they fair on shoppers who don’t have one?
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Comment and Opinion
Jude Bellingham brings energy to Lucozade campaign
The brand’s latest ad is a timely take on a previous one featuring basketballers and northern soul dancers
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Comment and Opinion
Chef Reactions: sarcastic expert entertains with cutting food video takedowns
Social media is awash with cookery videos. And most of them are terrible
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News
Loyalty card pricing backed by shoppers, exclusive survey reveals
Smartphones have made it easy for shoppers to download multiple loyalty apps… and not forget them
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Analysis and Features
Labrador retail crime and Asda rebrand: this week on grocery social media
Asda unveiled a fresh rebrand and bread-stealing Labradors became Facebook celebs. What you missed this week on social media in the world of grocery
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Profiles and QandAs
Fatso’s Ella Mckay on girl power, knickerbocker glories and ROI
Ella is on a mission to make dark chocolate fun and chunky, while driving change in the confectionery scene
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Category Report
Meet the fast and furious gum challengers
Tyson Fury’s Furocity is one of a wave of fast-growing brands looking to challenge the gum heavyweights. Can they succeed?
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Category Report
Confectionery trends 2024: The sourer the better
What’s behind the latest sour craze in sugar confectionery – and can it buoy a category struggling due to HFSS and cost pressures?
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Profiles and QandAs
My food & drink job: Ethan O’Brien, apprentice, Coca-Cola
’The opportunities are endless, you just have to put the work in and the rewards will follow’
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Comment and Opinion
How AI can revive a stagnant innovation climate
Rapid advances in AI give brands a new tool to create disruptive innovation at a fraction of the cost and time, says Jonny Forsyth, director of Mintel Food & Drink
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Comment and Opinion
Usain Bolt strikes a pose for Persil
Appropriately, Persil’s ‘Fast Just Got Better’ campaign whizzes by
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Comment and Opinion
Our Dream Farm with Matt Baker: a rural, less fun Apprentice
The success of Clarkson’s Farm seems to have convinced commissioners farming can be fun
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Comment and Opinion
Why brands must make sampling more sustainable
France has tackled the issue with a legislative approach, but we could be proactive, says Richard Lloyd-Williams, MD and business director at Flavor
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Profiles and QandAs
Palace Culture’s Mirko Parmigiani on plant-based, owls and Jamie Oliver
‘I first created Palace Culture for my son at home when he became dairy intolerant. Scaling up doesn’t mean we need to sacrifice the core values of our product’
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News
Retail media will be ‘bigger than TV’ by 2025 says Tesco
At the IGD event it cited experts who put worldwide retail media ad spending on track to increase by nearly $100bn by 2025, making it larger than television as an addressable market
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Comment and Opinion
As inflation eases, businesses must rise to the volume challenge
Businesses across the food and drink system share a common aim: they need to get volume moving, says James Walton, chief economist at IGD
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Profiles and QandAs
My food & drink job: Ollie Evans, international account manager, Princes
Ollie channels his childhood F1 dream into driving growth and sustainability in the food & drink sector
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Comment and Opinion
Innovation must work harder to tempt shoppers
Those who have used recent winds of change to drive change for themselves appear to have won out on the innovation front, says Jackson Woods, advanced analytics consultant for Worldpanel by Kantar
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Comment and Opinion
Fever-Tree’s boozy wine play shows the spritz occasion is here to stay
Fever-Tree’s boozy innovation and the rise of challenger spritz brands shows there’s more to the serve than just Aperol
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Analysis and Features
Sausages, salads and the Great British BBQ gender divide
With summer nearly here, Brits will soon be firing up their barbies. We’ve lifted the lid on Britain’s barbecues to find out what consumers are thinking