Archive of all Perfetti Van Melle articles
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Promotional Videos
Confectionery unwrapped: the expert scoop on the trends shaping the sector
Perfetti Van Melle explore the secrets to confectionery success in their latest video
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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
My food & drink job: Victoria Gibson, junior brand manager, Perfetti Van Melle
Confectionery brand manager Victoria on how she brings ‘Fruity Joy’ to Fruittella’s marketing
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News
Fruitella gets RTD treatment in latest retro launch from Manchester Drinks Co
The pouches are to roll into 670 B&M stores from 29 April
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News
Mentos targets sharing market with new pack format
Mentos owner Perfetti Van Melle is targeted the “growing sharing opportunity” with two new pouch bag flavour launches.
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News
Mentos claims first with new pack of 14 flavours
The launch will be backed by a £1m marketing push
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Analysis & Features
10 charts explaining UK attitudes to sweets and confectionery
Need proof that sweets make people happy? Here it is: more people buy candy to boost their mood than for any other reason, according to our poll of 1,000 shoppers about their attitudes to sweets. And most people will purchase them every week
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Webinars
WATCH: HFSS one year on: What have we learned?
To mark the one-year anniversary of restrictions on products high in fat, sugar and salt (HFSS), watch our webinar on demand to hear from a pannel of experts on what’s changed for brands, retailers and consumers – and what’s next.
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News
Fruittella links with Manchester Drinks for pocket-friendly squash launch
Fruittella Water Enhancers will roll exclusively to B&M stores this summer
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News
Fruittella ponders surprise move into soft drinks
Owner Perfetti Van Melle has applied to register its logo as a trademark with the IPO under class 32, covering fruit drinks, flavoured waters, and soda beverages
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News
Mentos launches limited-edition Fanta Orange sweets
‘Two cult favourites coming together in this limited-edition is sure to be a hit,’ said owner Perfetti Van Melle
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News
Fruittella gets new look and slashes amount of plastic in packs
Changes include swapping the fruit cube images to natural fruit images
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Videos
Category briefing: what’s hot in mints and gum?
Thanks to the halt in impulse purchasing, gum sales were chewed up and spat out during lockdown
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News
Perfetti Van Melle unveils vegan Fruittella soft candy duo
Fruittella Koalas and Fruittella Sour Snakes gelatine-free and made with real fruit juice
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News
Top 10 fmcg plastic polluters named in report
Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and Nestlé were among the top 10 worst plastic polluters, the study from Break Free From Plastics found
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News
Fruittella adds first hard candy with sugar-free Fruit Drops
The two variants, Citrus Mix and Red Berry Mix, are sweetened with isomalt, acesulfame K and sucralose