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Jelly Belly extends Harry Potter range for Christmas
Jelly Belly has extended its popular Harry Potter range in time for Christmas. New products include the Voldemort Wand (made of chocolate, with a spell sheet included), rrp £9.80; the Hogwarts Ticket Chocolate Bar 42g, rrp £4.40; Magical Sweets 59g, rrp £3.07; the Knight Bus 112g, rrp £16; and Crest ...
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Coca-Cola brings back Christmas Truck Tour
Coca-Cola has announced the return of its Coca-Cola Christmas Truck Tour. The Coca-Cola Truck will visit 19 stops nationwide before making its final stop in London on Sunday 15 December. This year Coca-Cola has partnered with Crisis – the national homelessness charity, which is now in its 52nd year. Coca-Cola ...
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Country Choice introduces Christmas Jammy Shortbreads
Joining Country Choice’s festive line-up this year are Christmas Jammy Shortbreads, which are individually wrapped jam-filled biscuits decorated with either a Christmas bell or a Christmas tree.Available in mixed cases of two x eight, the biscuits have an rrp of £1.49. Also new are individual Chocolate Yule Cakes, rrp £1.49, ...
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Ferrero brings back Christmas store makeover competition
Ferrero is bringing back its Sparkling Store Makeover competition where one lucky retailer will win a store makeover worth £4,000.Retailers can enter by going to www.yourperfectstore.co.uk/news-insights/blog/win-a-sparkling-store-makeover. Alternatively, retailers can post a video nomination of themselves.Levi Boorer, customer development director at Ferrero, said: “Creating theatre, like the Ferrero Sparkling Store Makeover, ...
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Aryzta adds a Vegan Mince Pie Tart to its festive range
Aryzta has introduced a Vegan Mince Pie Tart, comprising a vegan pastry shell filled with mincemeat and topped with a golden nutty crumble.Also available are the Turkey & Chardonnay Slice and the Christmas Cracker Roll, which has all the Christmas dinner favourites wrapped in a butter pastry with a sage ...
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Walkers teams up with Mariah Carey for Christmas campaign
Walkers is launching what it claims is its biggest ever festive on-pack promotion and marketing campaign with Mariah Carey. The promotion will run across the Walkers core range and offers shoppers the chance to win prizes every hour. Carey will be in the new Walkers Christmas TV advert for 2019, ...
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Stocking the good stuff
Pernod Ricard reckons there’s a £15.5m sales opportunity in the premium wine and spirits category this Christmas, that’s there for the convenience sector’s taking. The company is urging retailers to give better visibility to premium products so they can win back sales from the grocery multiples. Pernod Ricard is investing ...
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Yule all love these
In the lead up to last Christmas, Quality Street lovers got the chance to fill tins with just their favourite twistwapped chocolates thanks to a ’Choose your favourites’ pop-up at John Lewis department stores. This year, as well as ’Choose your favourites’, shoppers at John Lewis’s flagship London store can ...
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Cofresh unveils its With Love & Spice campaign for Diwali
Indian snack brand Cofresh has revealed details of its new With Love & Spice Diwali campaign, designed to boost awareness of the range and drive footfall to the store fixture in the run-up to this key selling time. Prime time programme sponsorship on premium Asian TV channels and national radio, ...
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GSK backs Beechams with £3.9m media spend
GSK is launching a Boss it with Beechams marketing campaign and new look for its cold and flu remedies, backed by a £3.9m media spend. Emily Fox, brand marketing manager at GSK, said: “The new campaign will drive awareness by keeping the brand front-of-mind during the cold and flu season, ...
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Do you dare to scare?
Nobody in the UK will be able to miss Halloween this year thanks to Boris and his Brexit deadline. With the words ’October 31’ appearing in news story after news story and countdown calendars appearing on websites, it’s a date that is very much front of mind. And whatever happens ...
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Fanta gives the range a makeover to mark Halloween
A limited-edition blood orange flavour variant is being added to the Fanta portfolio this Halloween. Fanta Dark Orange, the first Fanta product to turn jet black, will also feature werewolf-themed packaging to stand out on the shelves. The limited-edition, soft drink tax-exempt variant will be available in 500ml plain and ...
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Haribo launches Haribo and Maoam Duo Pack for Halloween
Haribo is inviting retailers to ‘Share the Scare’ with its new Halloween exclusive – the Haribo and Maoam Duo Pack. Developed to capitalise on the key seasonal trends, while delivering the ultimate mix of treats, the Haribo and Maoam Duo Pack combines top selling gums and jellies with the category’s ...
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Spar Scotland supports Scottish Food and Drink Fortnight
Spar Scotland will be supporting Scottish Food and Drink Fortnight across all its stores again this year. This year’s campaign will run from Friday August 31 to Monday 30th September, and highlights some of the Scottish brands and products stocked in Spar stores not just during this period but throughout ...
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Otis introduces llimited edition Halloween Muffins
American sweet bakery brand Otis is getting into the spirit of Halloween this autumn, with limited edition Otis Halloween Muffins. The Otis Halloween Muffin will be available from September, and features a rich, chocolate muffin with a smooth vanilla cream, topped with a pumpkin-shaped decoration, all wrapped in a Halloween-themed ...
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Grenade brings back festive Carb Killa bar
Grenade has revealed that it will be relaunching its Carb Killa Gingerbread protein bar this Christmas, after it sold out during the festive period last year. Gingerbread was the fastest selling Carb Killa SKU in 2018, accounting for 40% of the Christmas sales. The seasonal bar will re-join the existing ...
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Mondelēz International unveils Christmas line-up
Mondelēz International has unveiled its plans for Christmas with advice to retailers to split Christmas into four phases to enable them to stock the right range at the right time. The season begins in September, when stores can kick off with a ‘Fast Start’ for sharing confectionery as the nights ...
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Cracked Egg Muffin in time for Easter
Aryzta Food Solutions has launched a Cracked Egg Muffin under its Otis brand.It is supplied frozen for thaw and serve and comprises a chocolate chip muffin with a vanilla cream centre, finished with a white chocolate cream cracked egg decoration. It comes in cases of 28, rrp £1.49. Pos, including ...
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Aryzta Food Solutions adapts muffin for Easter
Aryzta Food Solutions has launched a Cracked Egg Muffin under its Otis brand. It is supplied frozen for thaw and serve and comprises a chocolate chip muffin with a vanilla cream centre, finished with a white chocolate cream cracked egg decoration. It comes in cases of 28, rrp £1.49. “Demand ...
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Ferrero ramps up its spring occasions range
The Thorntons Easter range includes three new luxury eggs White Chocolate & Raspberry, Milk Chocolate Almond & Hazelnut and Dark Chocolate & Orange. All feature strong colours and a premium look designed to appeal to younger, more affluent shoppers. Meanwhile, Ferrero Rocher’s 212.5g and 275g eggs saw sales increase by ...