Long reads – Page 157

  • alpro caffe
    Rankings

    34 (47) Alpro

    2018-03-29T13:00:00Z

    After racking up a whopping 19% sales boost the previous year, Alpro’s seemingly unstoppable growth began to slow in 2017

  • comfort
    Rankings

    35 (34) Comfort

    2018-03-29T13:00:00Z

    Comfort fared better than any other laundry brand in percentage terms

  • doritos
    Rankings

    36 (37) Doritos

    2018-03-29T13:00:00Z

    Doritos can’t afford to lose custom in the UK. Its value growth is somewhat deceptive

  • youngs gastro
    Rankings

    37 (42) Young's Seafood

    2018-03-29T13:00:00Z

    Frozen fish prices are rising fast. So although Young’s has sold about a million fewer units, value is still up

  • monster
    Rankings

    38 (56) Monster

    2018-03-29T13:00:00Z

    Coca-Cola European Partners’ energy brand has added £32m to its sales this year

  • jacobs
    Rankings

    39 (37) Jacobs

    2018-03-29T13:00:00Z

    A slip in value belies a fall of nearly 7 million units (4.4%) for the Jacobs

  • maltesers
    Rankings

    40 (40) Maltesers

    2018-03-29T13:00:00Z

    Being one of the poster boys for shrinkflation heralded a mediocre year for Maltesers

  • haribo
    Rankings

    41 (42) Haribo

    2018-03-29T13:00:00Z

    Feeling the pinch of the war on sugar, the brand has ventured into reduced sugar varieties

  • kinder bueno
    Rankings

    42 (46) Kinder

    2018-03-29T13:00:00Z

    Kinder managed to bag an extra £2.2m in value last year, largely due to average price increases of 3.4%

  • john west
    Rankings

    43 (39) John West

    2018-03-29T13:00:00Z

    John West netted £4.2m less than last year, despite average price rises of more than 25p across its range

  • pringles
    Rankings

    44 (33) Pringles

    2018-03-29T13:00:00Z

    Pringles’ famous ‘once you pop you can’t stop’ slogan looks shakier in 2018 than ever before

  • uncle bens
    Rankings

    45 (45) Uncle Ben's

    2018-03-29T13:00:00Z

    Despite flat value, the Uncle has shifted an extra 4.6 million packs

  • whiskas
    Rankings

    46 (35) Whiskas

    2018-03-29T13:00:00Z

    In what Whiskas describes as a “challenging and ever-changing” petfood market, sales slipped more than £15m

  • magnum
    Rankings

    47 (51) Magnum

    2018-03-29T13:00:00Z

    A focus on innovation helped Magnum drive far more impressive growth in 2017 than the measly 0.5% it managed the year before

  • ariel
    Rankings

    48 (44) Ariel

    2018-03-29T13:00:00Z

    Another casualty of the declining laundry category, Ariel suffered an 11.9% fall in volume

  • quorn
    Rankings

    49 (55) Quorn

    2018-03-29T13:00:00Z

    Few trends have exploded so spectacularly in the past year as the plant-based diet

  • volvic
    Rankings

    50 (41) Volvic

    2018-03-29T13:00:00Z

    Volvic has blamed “distribution decisions” by Tesco, Asda and Morrisons in 2016 for sliding sales

  • fanta
    Rankings

    51 (58) Fanta

    2018-03-29T13:00:00Z

    Over the past year, Brits have glugged down an extra 23.2 million litres of the stuff

  • evian
    Rankings

    52 (49) Evian

    2018-03-29T13:00:00Z

    Sales have been slow for Evian this year

  • yeo valley
    Rankings

    53 (50) Yeo Valley

    2018-03-29T13:00:00Z

    Granted, growth of £1.2m is hardly cause for popping the corks