Long reads – Page 192
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Analysis & FeaturesTesco-Booker clouds the air for Palmer & Harvey and the tobacco giants
No smoke without fire? P&H has been making moves to become less dependent on tobacco companies for sometime, but rely heavily on them for financing, but will it be one merger too many for industry?
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Analysis & FeaturesNever Mind the Brexit. Here’s Britain’s Biggest Brands 2017
2017’s rankings show big hitters struggling with upheaval. And that’s before Brexit comes into play
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Analysis & FeaturesBritain's Biggest Brands 2017: The Brexit issue - video
A special video preview of The Grocer’s mammoth in-depth report on Britain’s Biggest brands 2017
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Analysis & Features10 Things You Need To Know About... Canned Goods
It’s crunch time for canned food with £70m wiped off sales. We’ve lifted the lid on the multi-billion pound category to find out what’s going on and what brands are doing to reinvigorate sales and their image. Dive in here…
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Analysis & Features95: Actimel
While Danone’s global relaunch of stablemate Activia (54) struggled, the revamp of Actimel was far more successful
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Analysis & Features98: Rowntree's
Rowntree’s has managed to stay put in the rankings despite having almost £4.5m wiped off its value sales…
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Analysis & Features115: Yorkshire Tea
Yorkshire Tea bucked the downward trend in tea as rivals PG Tips (71) and Twinings (80) suffered sales declines in 2016
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Analysis & Features120: BelVita
BelVita’s rise has been nothing short of incredible since it first burst into the British biccie market seven years ago
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Analysis & Features126: Tassimo
A flurry of headlines about coffee pods’ environmental credentials, or rather lack of, hasn’t held Tassimo back…
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Analysis & Features127: Tilda
Tilda’s sales are up by £7m thanks, in no small part, to its range of microwaveable pouches…
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Analysis & Features132: Cadbury Heroes
One of the heroes of last Christmas, thanks to NPD including a new pouch format that has more than doubled in value and hit £4m
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Analysis & FeaturesWhat do Britain’s Biggest Brands stand for in 2017?
I’m not sure who would be most offended, Johnny Rotten or Nigel Farage
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Analysis & FeaturesSainsbury's results: what the analysts say
Sainsbury’s Nine Elms store Sainsbury’s posted 0.3% growth in combined like-for-like sales for the final quarter of the financial year, bolstered by strong like-for-like growth of 4.3% at Argos. Supermarket sales were down by 0.5% with a 4% slump in general merchandise, which CEO Mike ...
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Analysis & FeaturesMade in Britain
As Brexit, extreme weather and Trump threaten our reliance on imported fruit and veg, is it time to grow more British produce?
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Analysis & FeaturesLabour shortage fears need to be taken seriously
Labour shortages in the agricultural industry are a very real threat to the food industry already, warned Alison Capper
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Analysis & FeaturesWill FSA reform 'loosen the reins' on big food business?
The FSA board has stressed self-regulation is not on the cards
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Analysis & FeaturesAdjudicator Tacon takes supermarkets to task over forecasting
Christine Tacon has done a u-turn on forecasting, now the “number one issue” despite last year’s all-clear
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Analysis & FeaturesBlack pepper prices fall as stocks are replenished
Food manufacturers are finally having to shell out less for black pepper
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Analysis & Features29: Pringles
Brits lived up to the slogan ‘Once you pop you can’t stop’, scoffing an extra six million tubes over the past year