All Christmas articles – Page 5
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Product news: KP goes nuts with Christmas range
KP Snacks is introducing an all-star range this Christmas encompassing new flavours, fun festive shapes and the return of KP Nuts’ best-selling caddies. With festive sales of crisps, nuts and snacks worth £600m each December, the company is aiming to tap into this opportunity and boost sales this year with ...
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PRODUCT NEWS: Spar launches £350,000 Xmas campaign in Northern Ireland
Spar in Northern Ireland is investing £350,000 in its Christmas marketing campaign, which includes a newly created festive brand TV ad that goes live next week. The ‘There for Christmas’ ad airs for the first time during the screening of the Royal Variety Show on UTV from 9pm on Monday ...
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Nisa claims it can provide all xmas food needs
Nisa is claiming its stores can provide all a shopper’s Christmas food needs and promises a relatively quick and stress free shop when compared to larger supermarkets. It adds that it helps consumers stay on budget by stocking everyday essentials, rather than stocking aisle upon aisle with products shoppers don’t ...
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Christmas additions
Bobby’s Foods has launched a host of new products in time for Christmas.These include Mini Cheesy Cracker Snacks baked savoury biscuit shapes with a cheesy flavour, with a rrp of £1 for 150g. Big share bags of BBQ Snack Mix, Prawn Spirals and Sweet & Salted Popcorn are also ...
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Service Centre: Jac Roper on Christmas opening; the rise of own brand; and analysing your sales
Deck the Halls with Boston Charlie... It was always my favourite, fractured yuletide ’carol’. I thought originally that it referred to some mafia ’event’ involving an unfortunate Boston-based bloke called Charlie, and his fate was to be plastered around the walls. But that turned out to be wrong as it’s ...
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Christmas crackers
KP’s nuts range is getting bigger with the launch of Big Bag Nuts in four varieties: salted, dry roasted, salt & vinegar and spicy chilli.They come in 450/500g bags with a rrp of £2.40.The festive KP Nuts caddies are back in best-selling jumbo salted, dry roasted and honey roast variants. ...
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Making Christmas special
Urban Eat has five limited-edition ’Christmas Specials’ including a turkey feast sandwich, brie & bacon wrap and a Posh Nosh white stilton & festive chutney sandwich.
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PRODUCT NEWS: Coca-Cola unveils Xmas plans
Coca-Cola has unveiled details of its Christmas campaign for 2014, which began on Saturday November 8 with the ‘Holidays are Coming’ TV ad break during X Factor. The campaign also features a new “Give A Little Happiness” TV advert inspired by acts of kindness which also aired that evening and ...
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PRODUCT NEWS: Xmas specials from URBAN eat
Food to go brand URBAN eat has launched a range of five ‘Limited Edition’ Christmas Specials. The new range features traditional favourites, including Turkey Feast Sandwich and Brie & Bacon Wrap as well as more contemporary options such as the Boxing Day Panini and Posh Nosh White Stilton & Festive ...
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PRODUCT NEWS: WKD unveils xmas offers
SHS Drinks is focusing on keeping things simple for retailers this Christmas and supporting WKD with a selection of case deals to encourage outlets to stock up and maximise profits. There will also be a range of account-specific promotions for WKD. In order to help retailers let their customers know ...
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Xmas stars
Seasonal impulse confectionery should be the key focus for convenience retailers at Christmas. Nestlé UK & Ireland spokesperson, James Maxton, explains: "With 66% of sales incremental to all-year-round singles confectionery, it is the novelty of these products that attracts shoppers. They also act as a signpost for the Christmas season ...
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Service Centre: Jac Roper writes about a computer catch-up; a worrying scam; and Christmas cheer
Are you up to speed on technology? I must congratulate Tony Barlow, who runs the Mount Service Station in Shrewsbury, for employing such an observant cashier named Robert Fox. Robert works for Tony during the week and for another business, called Claremont News, on a Sunday. On Tony’s urging, Robert ...
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Christmas in a sub
Country Choice’s Christmas cracker sub contains minced pork, turkey, ham, cranberries and stuffing. Also available is the turkey, stuffing and cranberry bake.
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Stock up early to make Christmas a sales winner
Stick to the big brands and ensure you stock the right range throughout the entire season. That’s the message from Nestlé for this Christmas.According to Kantar Usage Panel data, early season sales account for a quarter of all seasonal impulse sales with a quarter of shoppers who buy early repeat ...
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Top Indies report increased sales over Christmas period
Businesses in Forecourt Trader’s Top 50 Indies have reported solid trading over the Christmas period.Nick Lloyd, managing director of Forecourt Trader of the Year winner, Symonds Forecourts, said business had been strong over the Christmas period despite torrential rain with double digit growth in its Budgens stores compared with the ...
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Top 50 report solid Xmas trading
Businesses in Forecourt Trader’s Top 50 Indies have reported solid trading over the Christmas period, despite bad weather, the depressed economy and pressure from the supermarkets. Nick Lloyd, managing director of Forecourt Trader of the Year winner, Symonds Forecourts, said business had been strong over the Christmas period despite torrential ...
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Families sell cars to pay for Christmas
Many families are considering selling a car in order to pay for Christmas and New Year bills, recent poll figures have shown.The survey, carried out by new vehicle sales website buymycar.com has found that some people would be prepared to sell their second car in order to buy presents and ...
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FTA welcomes early Christmas present but wants more from Chancellor
The Freight Transport Association has welcomed the Chancellor’s decision to cancel January’s 3p per litre fuel duty increase, but is disappointed that he did not go further and abandon all planned rises before the next election and move to reduce fuel duty by 3p a litre. FTA has been at ...
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Diageo adds colour to Christmas time
Diageo is launching a new in-store media campaign to encourage shoppers to serve more exciting drinks over the festive season. The ’Add Colour to Christmas’ campaign is designed to challenge beer and wine as the default at-home drinks choice over the crucial festive period.Rolling out nationwide this month, the campaign ...
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Cracking Christmas lines coming soon from Ginsters
Ginsters has announced its Christmas 2012 line-up. This comprises two special edition sandwiches: the Christmas cracker and cranberry, Wensleydale & bacon; plus a special edition turkey, bacon & cranberry pasty.They will be available nationally from next month. The sandwiches have rrps of £3.49 and £2.99 respectively, while the pasty has ...