All Seasonal articles – Page 10
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Christmas crackers
Following its success last year, Ginsters’ limited-edition Christmas Cracker sandwich is available once again. It contains British roast turkey, stuffing, bacon and cranberry sauce. Rrp is £3.29. Also available is the Festive Beef sandwich filled with rare British roast beef, caramelised red onion chutney, mayonnaise and rocket. Rrp is ...
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Spicing up Christmas
Diageo is backing Morgan’s Spiced with a £300,000 campaign pre-Christmas. The activity focuses on the drink’s ’signature serve’ Morgan’s Spiced and cola.
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Xmas list
There are loads of special festive lines around this year to add excitement to your displays.Premier Foods is launching a selection of new cakes including Mr Kipling’s Big Frosty Fancy, a seasonal take on the popular Big French Fancy. The cake is iced in snowy white and features a polar ...
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Halloween hits
McVitie’s Cake Company is launching two seasonal limited-edition variants: McVitie’s Jaffa Cakes lemon & slime cake bars and Jaffa Cakes spooky mini rolls.The cake bars come in packs of five retailing at £1.49. Packs feature pumpkins, spider’s webs and bats.The mini rolls are a blend of dark crackly chocolate and ...
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Christmas from Nestlé
Nestlé is launching its first fairtrade seasonal impulse line. The Kit Kat Claus bar features embossed fairtrade chocolate and a seasonal Santa design. Recommended retail price (rrp) is 45p. The bar will benefit from marketing support, focusing on the fairtrade aspect. Meanwhile, for 2010 the Quality Street My Caramel Swirl, ...
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Essential Christmas
JTI has released a Hamlet Essentials Pack for Christmas containing five packs of Hamlet fine cigars, five of Hamlet Miniatures and of Hamlet Smooth Miniatures.
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Shoppers set to splash the cash at Christmas
This Christmas may be the second that shoppers have faced during this recession but research from Mintel suggests retail sales are still growing in both volume and value terms. Mintel is forecasting growth of 2% versus last year in retail sales this month, driven by a recovery in consumer confidence ...
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Charging ahead for Christmas
Portable power has become an essential element of everyday life for consumers across the UK, according to Duracell. The company says that the way this power is consumed is critical in understanding the evolution of the battery marketplace, while retailers need to remember that more than 40% of their annual ...
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Festive feast
There’s no doubt that many consumers are feeling the pinch so Christmas might not quite be the spending orgy it has been in recent years, but it definitely won’t be cancelled. More mums might go to Iceland this year rather than M&S but there will still be a feast come ...
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Let it shine
We’re all hoping that 2009 will bring us a long, hot summer.With promotional events like National BBQ Week and Alfresco Food Fortnight planned for the next few months, no one wants a repeat of the wash out of the past two years.Tortilla and wrap manufacturer Mission Foods is one company ...
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spring watch
The next few months are bulging with gift-selling opportunities, with Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day and Easter just around the corner.And the experts reckon that shoppers will want to impulsively treat themselves - and others - more than ever this year. They will just be looking for less expensive options.Jonathan Summerley, ...
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Susie’s pet project for Christmas time
Budgens and Londis stores have been getting into the Christmas spirit by creating their own hampers for the festive season.Former Forecourt Trader of the Year winner Susie Hawkins has really been inventive by making her own pet hampers for the Budgens store at her Barnwood site in Gloucester. These contain ...
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Christmas prizes
Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) is launching its Christmas 2008 campaign this month, backed by £2.5m-worth of marketing and featuring an on-pack promotion on all 500ml and 2ltr bottles of Coca-Cola and Diet Coke as well as a seasonal campaign for Schweppes.The Holidays are Coming and Greatest Gift ads will also ...
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celebrate christmas with nestle
Christmas is a key time for confectionery sales, and with this in mind Nestlé Confectionery is giving readers an extra chance to boost their seasonal sales.The company is giving away four outers from its core seasonal range to two readers.Nestlé Confectionery says it is helping retailers to maximise sales and ...
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Bring me sunshine
Who can forget last summer? It was grim enough for most of us, but even more so for the thousands of people who suffered as a result of the floods. According to the Met Office, the main feature of summer 2007 was the "high rainfall experienced in many regions especially ...
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Christmas countdown
Preparation is the key to having a successful festive season, according to Paul Lettice, trade communications manager at Procter & Gamble. "Retailers who are prepared to think in advance about their Christmas offering, point-of-sale requirements and stock-level needs are those that will benefit most significantly from the opportunities presented by ...
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Summer lovin’
It looks like we’re in for another hot one as the latest seasonal forecast from the Met Office reveals that this summer is likely to be warmer than normal. Indeed seasonal forecasters say the chances of temperatures similar to those experienced in 2003 and 2006 are around one in eight. ...
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NewsHatch a plan
Saint Valentine’s Day: chocolates - check; heart-shaped novelties - check; red roses - check. Mother’s Day: flowers - check; chocolates - check. Easter: eggs - check. If only it were as simple as that - make a list, buy the stock, display it and it sells itself. But with the ...
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NewsChristmas stockings
Another year has whizzed by and Christmas will soon be upon us. For forecourt retailers the festive season is an opportunity to end on a high with some bumper sales. This year the tidings are even better, as both Christmas and New Year’s Day fall on Mondays. With people doing ...
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NewsChristmas is coming
Cadbury Trebor Bassett has unveiled its new Christmas range, which includes innovation in novelties and cartons and new-look selection packs.An indulgent addition is the Roses premium truffle selection - individually-wrapped chocolates that are said to have been a big hit in taste tests. A Santa’s Workshop novelty pack is filled ...