All Confectionery articles – Page 11
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product news: Mondelez moves Oreo to Cocoa Life
Mondelēz International has announced that from the end of March, the Oreo brand will be covered by its sustainable cocoa sourcing programme, Cocoa Life. Oreo packs will now begin to display the Cocoa Life logo, which will be present across the full range by the end of this year. The ...
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product news: Nestlé cuts sugar in chocolate
Nestlé UK and Ireland has unveiled Milkybar Wowsomes, the first chocolate bar in the world to use Nestlé’s sugar-reduction technique. Nestlé researchers made a scientific breakthrough when they transformed the structure of sugar through a newly developed process using only natural ingredients. Inspired by candy floss, experts created aerated, porous ...
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product news: Trebor brings back Get Minted promotion
The Trebor mint brand’s convenience channel-exclusive promotion, Get Minted, is returning for a second year. The promotion will run until 17 June with an aim to drive excitement and sales by offering consumers a chance to win one of 102 prizes ranging from £50 to £5,000. Consumers can win by ...
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Getting singled out
Nine out of 10 people eat chocolate, with 57% of them doing so more than once a week. So says Mintel in its latest chocolate category report. Bars and blocks are the most popular formats thanks to their availability and price. And confectionery singles or countlines are the most important ...
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product news: Fox’s Glacier marks centenary with new duo
Fox’s Glacier, which this year celebrates its 100th anniversary, is set to expand its range with the launch of two new products this Spring. Spearheading the anniversary year will be the first new mint product since the launch of Glacier Mints in 1918. Made with natural mint oils, the new ...
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product news: Wine Gums broadens into cocktails
Maynards Bassetts is launching a new flavour extension, Wine Gums Mocktails, which aims to broaden appeal to younger adults. The new candy bag, Wine Gums Mocktails, will see non-alcoholic Strawberry Daiquiri, Pina Colada and Cuba Libre flavours added to the range of Wine Gum shaped jelly sweets. Marta Sanso, senior ...
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product news: Haribo revamps Easter range
Haribo’s Easter Range has been given a new look and a new treat. New for 2018 is Haribo Bunny ‘n’ Friends, a gift that contains cute bunny, sheep and chick shaped sweets all wrapped up in a bunnyshaped box. This latest addition to Haribo’s Easter gifting follows the success of ...
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product news: KitKat extends into boxed chocolates
Nestlé Confectionery’s flagship brand KitKat has announced its biggest innovation of 2018: KitKat Senses. This new boxed chocolates launch sees KitKat move into a more indulgent, sharing format.KitKat Senses is a box of twenty individually-wrapped bite-size chocolates. There are three different flavours: hazelnut, double chocolate and salted caramel. Each is ...
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Product news: Thorntons competition to ’pass the love on’
To celebrate Mother’s Day this year, Thorntons is giving retailers the chance to ‘Pass the Love on’ with its latest competition. The competition will be hosted on Ferrero’s trade website, Your Perfect Store, a hub for category insight, brand news and bespoke advice. The winner will receive a relaxing spa ...
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product news: Nestlé Confectionery cuts size of outlets
Nestlé Confectionery is aiming to drive impulse sales and profits for convenience retailers with the introduction of a new smaller size outer across a range of its best-selling singles including all the ‘2 for £1’ price-marked packs (PMPs). The rollout of the new size 24-count outer will begin this month ...
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product news: Kinder teams up with Warner Bros super heroes
Kinder is teaming up with Warner Bros Consumer Products with its latest range of Kinder Surprise heroic-coloured eggs containing DC Superhero Girls and Justice League toys. The eggs will be available until the end of April and support the popularity of DC Super Hero Girls and the DC characters in ...
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Newsproduct news: Barratt brand returns
Retro sweets brand Barratt is marking its 170th anniversary with a new launch this spring, backed by £1.5m marketing support. The brand portfolio will include DipDab, Refreshers, Nougat, Sherbet Fountain, Fruit Salad, Black Jack, Wham, Refreshers Softies and Fruit Salad Softies. Eight of the 10 best-selling Tangerine Confectionery SKUs will ...
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product news: Cadbury and Oreo team up for sharing duo
Cadbury and Oreo will be coming together again in both tablets and bags this February with two new sharing products. Building on the success of Cadbury Dairy Milk Oreo in tablets, the brand will be introduce Cadbury Dairy Milk Oreo Sandwich. The new tablet will have a layer of Cadbury ...
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product news: KitKat mugs up on drink link
Nestlé Confectionery’s flagship brand KitKat is to kick off 2018 with a promotion that links confectionery and hot drinks as the perfect break partners. To celebrate this link KitKat is introducing a new character to consumers: Joe the Mug. Joe is a mug who is looking for the perfect partner ...
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product news: Big Bear sponsors Leicester Tigers
Big Bear Confectionery has announced its official sponsorship of the Leicester Tigers Premiership rugby team for the 2018/19 season. The company announced the partnership on Sunday 21 January at the Champions Cup game between the Tigers and French rugby union club Racing 92. It continues a partnership with the Tigers ...
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product news: Werther’s launches TV campaign
Werther’s Sugar Free is launching a £4m national TV campaign this January to remind shoppers that they can still treat themselves to the taste of Werther’s Original, with the reassurance of no sugar and fewer calories. “We’ve had significant success with our most recent TV advertising,” said Andy Mutton, managing ...
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product news: Haribo brings out lower sugar option
Haribo has unveiled a new addition to its range – Fruitilicious – which it says has 30% less sugar. Fruitilicious features fruit shaped, smiley faced pieces in strawberry, raspberry, pineapple, orange, apple and lemon flavours. Hayley Nixon, marketing manager from Haribo, commented: “For almost 100 years Haribo has been producing ...
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product news: Cadbury launches new brand platform
Cadbury is launching a new global brand platform, which is intended to shine a light on the kindness and generosity in society and facilitate moments of human connection. The first creative under the new global brand platform is centered on Cadbury Dairy Milk and the campaign kicked off with a ...
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product news: Cadbury Creme Egg returns to TV
Cadbury Creme Egg has returned to TV as part of a £4m marketing investment for the brand during the run up to Easter, and will be supported by PR, experiential and digital activity. January also sees the start of a hunt exclusive to the convenience channel – Hunt the White ...
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product news: Cadbury Premier League tie-up reaches biscuits
Cadbury’s Premier League partnership will move into biscuits this month with the launch of an on-pack promotion with Cadbury Fingers – Finders Keepers. The promotional packs will see Cadbury Fingers renamed for a limited period while its Finger characters will play goalie on promotional packaging which offers consumers a chance ...