All Top Products articles – Page 28
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Analysis & Features
Sports nutrition: market bulked up by smaller impulse lines
Supermarkets are in dire need of a shot in the arm. But there’s one sector in which they’re looking rather ripped…
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News
Biscuits: McVitie's up 5% but biscuit and cereal bar sales crumble
What a difference a year makes. Twelve months ago, breakfast was the most important meal of the day for biscuits in terms …
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Analysis & Features
Soft drinks: war on sugar sours juice sector sales
If you’re looking for a casualty from the war on sugar, you’ve found it. While carbonates, energy drinks and sweets escaped relatively lightly, juices & smoothies have been hammered. Value has slumped £69.4m (3.5%) on volumes down 6.5%, with own label’s long-term decline gathering pace to nearly double the rate ...
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Analysis & Features
Top launch: Super Smoothies by Innocent
Innocent has big ambitions for the functional fruit & veg drinks it launched in March – setting out a two-year sales target of £30m. There’s no denying Super Smoothies is a compelling proposition – combining the strength of the Innocent brand with good-looking products featuring fruit, vitamins and ingredients ...
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News
Smirnoff, Walkers and Coca-Cola - Britain's best sellers
New research for The Grocer has revealed the best-selling individual products in Britain’s supermarkets…
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Comment & Opinion
Top Products Survey 2013 provides examples of success
We are at a pivotal moment. There’s all to play for: resting on the next few days are budgets, bonuses, careers…
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News
Marmite toppled in a Top Products year of shake-ups
Marmite has been usurped as Britain’s bestselling spread by Rowse Honey, as The Grocer presents its Top Products Survey.
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Comment & Opinion
Funny Feet, big steps
In 2013 The Grocer played a pivotal role in bringing about the return of ice cream brand Funny Feet. But it wasn’t the only development in the colourful world of ice cream.
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Analysis & Features
Top Products Survey 2013: Executive Summary report
It’s been a year of polarised priorities, as shoppers seek out both value for money and a little comfort. So who has benef…
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Analysis & Features
Biggest value winners in 2013
As part of The Grocer’s Top Products Survey 2013, we round up the biggest brand winners in 2013…
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Analysis & Features
Biggest value losers in 2013
The Grocer’s Top Products Survey continues with a look at the biggest brand fallers of the year…
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Analysis & Features
Squeezing the pips: how to get the most out of your ad budget
Ten per cent of British ad spend comes from food retailers and suppliers, yet the effectiveness of such ads is falling…
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Analysis & Features
Sports nutrition performance slows as VAT is slapped on
For a category hit by VAT last October, sales of sports nutrition products look surprisingly healthy at first glance…
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Analysis & Features
Tobacco: Tailormades lose share to rolling tobacco
In the world of non-electric cigarettes, hand rolling tobacco (HRT) has once again been the success story of the year….
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Analysis & Features
Table sauces: Value is the new sauce of inspiration
It’s hard to maintain growth in a high-penetration category like table sauces and condiments, but both top brands have man…
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Analysis & Features
Petfood sales increase sets tails wagging
The dogs had their dinner and the cats got their cream – as sales in the category returned to value and volume growth…
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Analysis & Features
Pasta, rice & noodles: Noodles and pots hit spot, unlike pasta
Convenience-seeking consumers have been really using their noodles this year… or more accurately eating them…
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Analysis & Features
Spreads: Marmite will hate losing to Rowse Honey
Britain’s going sweet on honey. Rowse, the country’s biggest honey brand, has ousted Marmite from the top…
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Analysis & Features
Oils: Lack of rain in Spain falls mainly on oil
The lack of rainfall last year on the olive groves of Spain decimated the year’s harvest…
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Analysis & Features
Dairy drinks: Milking the return of value growth
After last year’s farmer protests and mega M&A deals, 2013 brought some much-needed calm to the milk sector…