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Coffee’s steaming ahead
You can’t drive anywhere nowadays without seeing a giant Costa coffee cup standing outside a store. The brand’s popularity seems to know no bounds as earlier this year Costa was named the ’Nation’s Favourite Coffee Shop Brand’ for the eighth year in a row. And according to Allegra, the firm ...
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Applegreen switches to fully recyclable paper cup across estate
Top 50 Indie Applegreen has reinforced its environment credentials by switching to using a fully recyclable paper cup across its estate. Applegreen is using the reCUP recyclable paper cup, which is made by cup manufacturer CupPrint. The new recylable cups use EarthCoating, a fully recyclable lining engineered to be processed ...
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product news: PG tips adds PMPs to The Tasty Decaf range
PG tips is adding two new price-marked packs to The Tasty Decaf range. PG tips developed The Tasty Decaf to bring taste back to decaf tea, in direct response to consumer feedback. Decaffeination can often result in a weak and unsatisfying cuppa. PG tips The Tasty Decaf uses a natural ...
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EasyCoffee secures backing for roll-out of 800 vending machines
EasyCoffee’s plan to roll out 800 vending machines nationally in the next year has been given a boost following a £10m investment by Stellar Asset Management. The coffee chain - part of the ‘easy’ family of brands that includes EasyJet - has enjoyed rapid growth since it launched in 2016 ...
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Steam powered
Offering customers free coffee as ’bait’ to get them onto your site is the way forward for the coffee-to-go market. That’s the view of Jason McNally, chief executive of Simply Coffee."Simply Coffee has developed a new cost-neutral programme which enables the retailer to dramatically increase the store’s net margin, while ...
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EasyCoffee’s PFS push
EasyCoffee is keen to push its coffee offer to forecourt retailers following a successful pilot stage and eight store openings across the UK. The company’s CEO and co-founder Nathan Lowry said there had been considerable interest from potential franchisees, with the brand planning to open another 200 coffee shops in ...
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NewseasyCoffee targets forecourts
Easycoffee is keen to push its coffee offer to forecourt retailers following a successful pilot stage and eight store openings across the UK. The company’s CEO and co-founder Nathan Lowry said there had been considerable interest from potential franchisees, with the brand planning to open another 200 coffee shops in ...
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Cimbali extends range of coffee machines
Cimbali has extended its range of automatic professional coffee machines with the launch of the S20, a smaller version of the S30 Perfect Touch. The S20 is designed to deliver up to 200 cups of coffee and milk-based beverages a day and with its compact size and small footprint it ...
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product news: PG tips adds two variants
PG tips has launched two variants – The Tasty Decaf and Perfect With Dairy Free – that cater to consumers following a decaf or dairy-free diet. The launch is supported by a £3m marketing investment, including a brand new TV ad campaign. Research conducted by PG tips found that tea ...
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product news: Yorkshire Tea launches decaf PMP
Yorkshire Tea has launched a new Yorkshire Tea Decaf price-marked pack (PMP), exclusively for the wholesale and convenience channels. The black tea brand has extended its Decaf range to include a 40s PMP to better serve the wholesale and convenience channels. Previously Yorkshire Tea’s Decaf PMP has been available in ...
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product news: Kraft Heinz kicks off £8m winter soup campaign
Kraft Heinz is kicking-off the soup winter season with the first strand of an £8m media investment. The first £4m will be invested behind its Heinz Classics Soups range with the new “Made with Great” campaign aiming at driving category engagement and reappraisal of canned soups. The campaign highlights the ...
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Pushing the right buttons
The UK’s love affair with coffee shows no sign of cooling down. Indeed, according to Mintel data, the UK’s coffee shop market has grown by 37% since 2011, rising from £2.4bn to £3.4bn. However, despite the perceived dominance of specialist coffee retailers, as many as 44% of Brits buy their ...
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Denby Drinks launches Ciao Coffee Serving Stations
Denby Drinks Company has launched its Ciao Coffee Serving Stations into the convenience sector. Together with its Mr Slush machines it says it now offers convenience retailers the ultimate hot and cold drinks solution. Steve Roy, managing director of Denby Drinks Company, commented: “We are delighted at the immediate impact ...
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Melitta wins three-year coffee contract from Roadchef
Melitta Professional Coffee Solutions has secured a three-year contract to supply roast and ground coffee into Fresh Food Café and Restbite at Roadchef motorway service areas. Rolled out across April and May, Melitta’s fully branded speciality coffee offering – including a new iced beverage menu – will be featured exclusively ...
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No break for coffee
If you thought there were already more than enough Costa Coffee shops dotted all over the UK, you’d be mistaken. That’s because, according to Costa itself, its network plan "shows opportunity for at least 3,000 stores in the UK compared to just over 2,200 today". In addition, it has plans ...
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Roasting success
Coffee-to-go is a big success story for Hull-based Sewell on the go. The Top 50 Indie has 16 machines across its 12 sites with the busier sites having two or even three machines. Operations director, David Craven-Jones, explains: "Costa is a good fit for us and our customers love it. ...
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Express delivery
Earlier this year, Top 50 Indie the Chartman Group was named as the first independent retailer to install three Costa Express machines at one of its sites. And on the day the third machine was installed at the company’s Winning Post site just outside Exeter, the three machines served 350 ...
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Sip Service
The fact that Costa was recently named the Nation’s Favourite Coffee Shop brand for its fifth consecutive year (Allegra Project Café 15) came as no surprise to Vicky Nielsen from Cambuslang Service Station in Cambusland near Glasgow, as she says the coffee it serves is lovely. "We’ve had a Costa ...
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Steaming ahead
While the expansion of the coffee shop chains such as Costa and Starbucks is the main driver of coffee shop market growth, according to Allegra Strategies, it is consumers who will shape the future marketplace with their demands for premium coffee, any time, anywhere. And that is, of course, good ...
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Brands mean growth
With more people consuming hot beverages than a year ago, the £5.8bn market is showing no signs of slowing down. According to Allegra Strategies’ Project Café, an estimated one in five people now visit a coffee outlet on a daily basis, with figures showing that the morning period remains the ...
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