All Confectionery articles – Page 6
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Mars Wrigley launches Skittles Dips
Mars Wrigley is launching Skittles Dips, which combine the harder, chewy texture of Skittles with a soft, creamy yoghurt coating – creating an indulgent, multi-textured fruity experience.Alyona Fedorchenko, marketing director at Mars Wrigley, commented: “Disrupting the predictable is at the heart of the Skittles brand. In keeping with that ethos ...
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Mars Wrigley brings M&M’s block variants to the UK
Mars Wrigley UK has announced it will bring four new M&M’s block variants to the UK market this month – Chocolate, Crispy, Hazelnut and Peanut. The four M&M’s Block variants will contain mini M&M’s alongside pieces of peanut, hazelnut or crispy and will be encased in milk chocolate. Cordelia Linacre, ...
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Mentos wants consumers to pass on the message
Mentos is investing £1.6m in what it describes as its biggest campaign of the year. The new limited edition product aims to bring people together and inject a dose of innovation into the singles category. Building on the success of last year’s Mentos Say Hello campaign, Complimentos will see every ...
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Cadbury re-runs promotion with Merlin Entertainments
Cadbury and Merlin Entertainments’ partnership offering consumers free tickets for memorable days out this summer is set to roll out across Cadbury chocolate bags for a fourth year. Running throughout the summer, Cadbury promotional chocolate bags will offer a free ticket with every purchase of a full-price adult ticket to ...
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Nestlé Confectionery announces partnership with NOW TV
Nestlé Confectionery has announced it is partnering with online streaming service NOW TV to launch an on-pack promotion. Packs of KitKat, Aero, Yorkie, Toffee Crisp and Rowntree’s Fruit Pastilles will offer the chance to win a one-month NOW TV Entertainment Pass worth £7.99/€15, with thousands of passes up for grabs ...
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Ferrero launches trade campaign for TicTac
Ferrero is launching a trade campaign to reinforce the sales potential of stocking its core range of flavours. The activity coincides with the brand’s ‘Kiss does summer with Tic Tac’ on pack offer, where consumers can win a holiday to Ibiza via two million promotional packs of its two leading ...
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Mars Wrigley Confectionery brings back Sweet Sundays
Mars Wrigley Confectionery UK has announced the return of its Sweet Sundays promotion for the eighth year running. The manufacturer’s most successful annual brand activation allows consumers to claim a free cinema ticket when they buy their favourite chocolate and confectionery treats. Promotional codes can be found on or inside ...
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Tic Tac offers Ibiza holiday as competition prize
This summer Tic Tac will be offering consumers the chance to win a holiday to Ibiza, as part of a partnership with radio station, Kiss. Rolling out this month, the competition will look to drive shopper demand for its core range, with the promotion featuring across two million packs of ...
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Cadbury introduces Curly Wurly Squirlies PMP format
Cadbury has launched a new Curly Wurly Squirlies price-marked pack (PMP) format. The £1 PMP sharing bags have been developed to offer consumers a new pack size and help retailers capture shoppers’ attention in store. Mathieu Maggi, brand manager for bitesize at Mondelēz International, explained: “Curly Wurly Squirlies have been ...
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Big Bear rolls out Fox’s Glacier lines in shelf ready cases
Big Bear Confectionery will roll out single facing shelf-ready cases across its core Fox’s Glacier lines to retailers nationwide this month, following a successful trial with the Co-op. The new single facing shelf-ready cases offer an alternative to hanging confectionery and are designed to maximise space where it’s at a ...
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Maynards Bassetts offers chance to win wacky prizes
Maynards Bassetts is launching a new on-pack promotion offering shoppers the chance to win one of 8,001 wacky prizes. The promotion will be available on a number of the brand’s hero bags including Wine Gums, as well as new sub-brands Wine Gums Tangy, Soft Jellies Wild Safari and many more. ...
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Peppersmith brings out plastic-free packaging
Vegan-friendly mint and chewing gum brand Peppersmith unveiling newly rebranded plastic free packaging in mid-May across all products for a fresh contemporary look. It has been re-engineered to no longer require a plastic wrapper. Instead it uses a new perforated tamper proof tab on their FSC accredited fully recyclable card ...
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Mentos launches Chewy & Fresh mints
Mentos is launching a range of chewy mints this May – Chewy & Fresh – ahead of the summer refreshment sales spike. Brand owner Perfetti van Melle (PVM) is aiming the range for the on-the-go consumer, and is packaging it in a resealable bottle. Differing from the traditional Mentos mints, ...
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Vimto adds to revitalised range of lollipops
Soft drink brand Vimto has collaborated with confectionery distributor IB Group to launch Vimto Remix Sodapops.The new lollipop is the tropical Vimto Remix Mango, Strawberry and Pineapple flavour from Vimto’s Remix range.The Remix Sodapops are suitable for vegetarians, contain real fruit juice and are made with natural colours.The launch comes ...
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Cadbury’s Premier League tie-up prepares for end of season
Cadbury is getting ready to kick off its second end-of-season Premier League promotion. You’re Off runs from April 29 to June 7 across the Cadbury singles range, including Duos bars, and will offer shoppers the chance to instantly win an array of football-themed prizes including 50 pairs of Premier League ...
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Mars Wrigley Confectionery UK launches Galaxy Darker Milk
Mars Wrigley Confectionery UK has announced the launch of two new Galaxy Darker Milk variants – Galaxy Darker Milk and Galaxy Darker Milk with Roasted Hazelnuts. Galaxy Darker Milk and Galaxy Darker Milk with Roasted Hazelnuts contain a 70/30 milk dark blend, which is intended to deliver on the taste ...
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Rowntree’s boosts Randoms but drops Tooty Frooties
New variants of Rowntree’s Randoms are being introduced to coincide with its tenth birthday and a major refresh of the Rowntree’s brand, but Tooty Frooties is being ditched.Two new sharing bags, the first containing brand new Randoms Sours and the second Squish’ems (squishy foam and fruity jelly in one sweet) ...
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Nestlé UK introduces on-pack promotion using QR code
Nestlé UK and Ireland is introducing ’80 Awesome things to do’, a new on-pack promotion on some of its leading confectionery brands, which gives families fun and engaging activity ideas to do together. Small packs with less than 100 calories of Nestlé’s Milkybar, Smarties, Animal Bar and Rowntree’s Randoms will ...
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Premium promise
Trading up to more premium lines is a big consumer trend in the chocolate market. According to Mintel, consumers’ perceptions of the overall quality of chocolate unsurprisingly come down to its ingredients. In its latest chocolate report, it says: "High-quality ingredients are the key identifier of premium chocolate, associated with ...
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Nestlé UK rolls out Ruby Chocolate KitKat
Nestlé UK has announced that its KitKat made with Ruby chocolate will launch nationwide this month. The four-finger wafer bar is coated with Ruby chocolate, derived from Ruby cocoa beans, which has an intense berry-fruitiness taste that occurs naturally with no artificial flavours or colour added. After a period of ...