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product news: Werther’s runs Caramel Shop advert
The Werther’s Original Christmas Caramel Shop box contains a variety of Werther’s caramels including Butter Candies, Creamy Filling, Éclairs and new Soft Caramel. The pack size is 250g and rrp is £2.99. It will be backed by the Caramel Shop advert, which in the run up to last Christmas was ...
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product news: Tangerine Confectionery launches multipacks
Tangerine Confectionery has launched a new range of multipacks designed to target the family market with portion-controlled mini bags of classic favourites. The four ‘Bag of Bags’ multipacks will each contain 11 mini bags of the same variety. These include Shrimps & Bananas (176g), Mini Bears (198g) and Jelly Beans ...
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product news: Blockhead wins listing with MFG
The energy gum brand Blockhead has announced the addition of three new partnerships with major national retailers: MFG, Booker Retail Partners, and Costcutter. Blockhead says the deals mean its products will be available at more than 2,800 retail outlets nationwide, three months after its formal launch. Danny Lowe, founder and ...
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product news: Ferrero offers store makeover prize
Ferrero is giving retailers the chance to win a store makeover, worth £4,000. The Christmas transformation will aim to bring the community together to celebrate the festive period, and Ferrero will work with the winning store to tailor the prize to best cater for their community. To enter the competition, ...
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Santa’s sales winners
Whether it’s a tub of your favourite twistwraps, an extra large Toblerone or a Chocolate Orange, Christmas just wouldn’t be the same without chocolate. No wonder then that it’s the most important time of the year for chocolate sales. Yes, the grocery multiples start piling up their £5 tubs of ...
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Extra-strong menthol mint innovation from Smint
Smint has launched an extra strong menthol power mint – Smint Xtrm with Menthol and Eucalyptus. The new sugar-free variant aims to provide invigorating freshness and an instant feeling of relief in the throat and nose, with the launch well-timed for the looming winter cold season. Hannah Acres, Smint brand ...
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Advent calendar joins Celebrations festive line-up
Celebrations has launched its first-ever advent calendar so customers can ’celebrate’ every day in the lead up to Christmas.Laura Edwards, Celebrations senior brand manager, Mars Wrigley Confectionery UK, said: “Celebrations is synonymous with Christmas and so it’s only right we introduce a Celebrations Advent Calendar so people can feel the ...
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£2.8m support for new ’thank you’ Cadbury Roses campaign
Cadbury has unveiled a new £2.8 million marketing campaign celebrating Cadbury Roses. The new creative draws attention to how a thank you is more meaningful when you give a thank you, rather than just say ’thank you’. It follows the story of a little boy, who, to his father’s surprise, ...
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Limited-edition CDM to mark 100-year WW1 remembrance
Cadbury is marking 100 years since the end of the First World War by releasing a limited-edition Cadbury Dairy Milk Remembrance Bar in partnership with the Royal British Legion. The 360g bar bears the same wrapper design as Cadbury Dairy Milk sold during the war but adorned with poppies, ...
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Fruity and spicy
Big Bear Confectionery has added a limited- edition Fruit & Spice flavour to its Fox’s Glacier range of boiled sweets in a 200g sharing bag, rrp £1.
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Salted caramel kitkat
The latest flavour to join the KitKat Chunky range is Salted Caramel Fudge. The launch is part of a strategy to excite consumers by rotating new flavours each year.
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Mars Wrigley’s Sweet Sundays promotion is back
Mars Wrigley’s Sweet Sundays promotion is back for the seventh year. The popular initiative, which is the manufacturer’s most successful annual brand activation, offers consumers free cinema tickets. To claim their free cinema ticket, consumers need to buy two promotional ’More To Share’ pouches or blocks, or five promotional standard ...
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Cadbury aims to score with latest promotion
Cadbury has entered the second season of its partnership with the Premier League. Its Match and Win promotion gives consumers the chance to win millions of prizes including a Premier League VIP matchday experience. It will be backed by a £1.5m media investment. 0870 191 7343 www.deliciousdisplay.co.uk
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Maynards Bassetts appeals to young adults
Maynards Bassetts has identified an opportunity to recruit younger adults without children into the jelly market. Its response to this is the launch of Soft Jellies Wild Safari, a 160g bag of fruit-flavoured sweets. Rrp is £1.32. 0870 191 7343 www.deliciousdisplay.co.uk
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product news: Halls reveals new look
Halls will unveil a new look, plus new price-marked packs, ahead of this winter season to help retailers drive relief candy sales. Available from October 2018, the new designs will champion the different roles of both the Mentholyptus and Soothers products to help educate consumers on the different functions of ...
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product news: Big Bear plans heritage selection box
Big Bear Confectionery, owner of the Fox’s Glacier brand, will launch a retro heritage selection box this month to help retailers cash in on the trend for retro sweets in the run up to Christmas. With kidulting (treats and sweets geared towards adult consumers who are looking for ways to ...
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product news: Fulfil introduces smaller bars
Vitamin and protein bar Fulfil has expanded its offering with the launch of a new 40g bar that contains 15g of protein, less than 2g of sugar and nine vitamins. The new range also introduces two new flavours, Chocolate Salted Caramel and Chocolate Hazelnut Whip. The new smaller sized range ...
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product news: Harry Potter inspires sweets range
Jelly Belly Candy Company in partnership with Warner Bros Consumer Products has launched new chocolate and gummi confections inspired by Harry Potter, along with new Chocolate Frog collectible cards and Bertie Bott’s Every-Flavour Beans Gift Box. Designed with Harry Potter enthusiasts in mind, seven new chocolate and gummi sweets join ...
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Product news: Dexters expands halal sweets range
Confectionery brand Dexters is expanding its halal-accredited range of sweets with the launch of Tiger Tongues individual bags. Available from 1 October, the new sour candy belts are available in four distinctive flavour variants: strawberry, apple, blue raspberry and mix. “Consumer demand for sour sweets continues to soar, and these ...
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Product news: Fox’s Glacier adds autumn flavour
Big Bear Confectionery has announced it will be adding a new limited-edition product into its Fox’s Glacier range of boiled sweets this autumn. Fox’s has used the warm flavours and aromas of autumn to create a new 200g sharing bag: Fox’s Limited-Edition Glacier Fruit & Spice (RRP £1). Made with ...