Long reads – Page 216
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Analysis and FeaturesBaked snacks rise as crisp sales crumble
Crunch. That’s the sound of baked snacks heavyweights encroaching on crisps’ territory
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Analysis and FeaturesBranded NPD up as battery sales go flat
Battery sales through the grocers have run out of juice
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Analysis and FeaturesPrice cuts hit beer as cider sales go flat
It’s all gone pear shaped in cider. Once the category darling, cider shrunk by value and volume
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Analysis and FeaturesSweet biccies crumble as savoury flies
2015 was the year of the savoury baked snack
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Analysis and FeaturesDeeper deals take big slice of bread sales
Few have escaped unscathed from the battlefield of the wrapped bread market
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Analysis and FeaturesDeeper deals take big slice of bread sales
Few have escaped unscathed from the battlefield of the wrapped bread market
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Analysis and FeaturesLosses widen for BSM as promos soar
Butters & spreads have had the eighth greatest loss of the year
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Analysis and FeaturesAmbient food gets canned as prices fall
The performance of the UK canned food sector continues to look decidedly crumpled
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Analysis and FeaturesBreakfast skippers cost cereals £70m
Cereals, like corn flakes left to soak for too long, have gone soggy
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Analysis and FeaturesBig cheese squeeze costs brands dear
Who’d be a branded cheese supplier? Combined branded volumes have inched up 0.8%, but it’s come at a price: value has sunk 1.6%, contributing £18.5m to the market’s £68.9m loss (the 10th biggest category decline of the year).
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Analysis and FeaturesMilk takes a £165m hit as prices tumble
The milk sector’s bumpy ride in 2014 was a walk in the park compared with the travails of the past year
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Analysis and FeaturesCan grocers keep pace as e-cigs evolve?
By most category standards, e-cigarettes is still a booming market
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Analysis and FeaturesWhat recall? Free from up a cool £100m
Free-from continues to charge ahead like a freight train
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Analysis and FeaturesWhat recall? Free from up a cool £100m
Free-from continues to charge ahead like a freight train
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Analysis and FeaturesPizza adds some pizazz to frozen food
It’s looking frosty in the freezer aisles, with pizza the only sector in growth
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Analysis and FeaturesFruit flies as veggie sales crash £317m
More than half a billion pounds has been wiped off supermarket fresh food
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Analysis and FeaturesStinking year for deodorant as soap slides
Sales of grooming products are looking less than spruce as the multiples lose ground to cheaper rivals such as the pound stores.
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Analysis and FeaturesDry shampoo cleans up in bad hair year
Batiste dry shampoo is now the UK’s fifth biggest shampoo brand
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Analysis and FeaturesCoffee pods boom as hot drinks cool
Coffee is injecting some much needed growth into the hot beverages category