Long reads – Page 215
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Analysis & 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 & FeaturesSweet biccies crumble as savoury flies
2015 was the year of the savoury baked snack
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Analysis & 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 & 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 & FeaturesLosses widen for BSM as promos soar
Butters & spreads have had the eighth greatest loss of the year
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Analysis & 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 & FeaturesBreakfast skippers cost cereals £70m
Cereals, like corn flakes left to soak for too long, have gone soggy
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Analysis & 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 & 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 & FeaturesCan grocers keep pace as e-cigs evolve?
By most category standards, e-cigarettes is still a booming market
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Analysis & FeaturesWhat recall? Free from up a cool £100m
Free-from continues to charge ahead like a freight train
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Analysis & FeaturesWhat recall? Free from up a cool £100m
Free-from continues to charge ahead like a freight train
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Analysis & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & FeaturesCoffee pods boom as hot drinks cool
Coffee is injecting some much needed growth into the hot beverages category
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Analysis & FeaturesMe-toos lose in household spring clean
The threat of range rationalisation looms large in household
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