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Country Choice in a swirl for festive season
Newcomers to Country Choice’s Christmas line-up include a Chocolate Orange pastry swirl and a Panettone flavour swirl. The first is an orange-flavour butter pastry base filled with crème pâtissière and chocolate chips, sprinkled with a golden sugar topping. The latter is a butter pastry swirl filled with crème pâtissière, sultanas ...
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Elizabeth Shaw launches chocolates with a twist
Elizabeth Shaw is launching Twists, described as an indulgent selection of individually wrapped hazelnut treats enrobed in milk chocolate and praline, topped with crisp rice and coated in milk chocolate. They come in a box that opens and closes with one big twist. Elizabeth Shaw managing director, Karen Crawford, said ...
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Salted Caramel joins the KP caddies range for Christmas
KP Snacks has added a new Salted Caramel variant to its range of best-selling nut caddies. KP is the leading nuts brand in the UK with a 17.3% share of the market, valued at £56m. Nearly 40% of KP nut sales take place in the run up to Christmas and ...
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Pladis wishes: Merry Biscuits Everyone
Pladis has unveiled plans for its biggest- ever Christmas brand campaign. It’s the first time well-loved brands under the McVitie’s, Jacob’s and Carr’s master brands will come together under the campaign banner ’Merry Biscuits everyone’. At the heart of the campaign is the concept of sharing, so Pladis will bring ...
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Hi-Spirits offers new big-brand gift range
Hi-Spirits has a new range of gift packs featuring Southern Comfort, Buffalo Trace Bourbon, Fireball and the King of Soho Gin. Rrps range from £14 to £34. Dan Bolton, managing director of Hi-Spirits, said: "Spirits gift packs are a very important driver of sales as customers look for interesting gifting ...
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Get behind the layers with new Ferrero experience
Ferrero Rocher is back on TV with a new £3.5m campaign which will run through to the end of December. The brand is also launching a new experience for consumers where they will be able to book tickets to go ’Behind the Layers’ and discover the "passion for perfection that ...
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Jenny Wren: quality chocs for less than £10
Kentish chocolate firm Jenny Wren has introduced its first-ever Christmas box for what it calls the ’neglected’ sub-£10 gifting category. Based on its three-layered folding format, the Christmas Collection features 12 hand-finished Belgian chocolates and truffles including Fleur de Sel Caramel, Raspberry Yogurt and White Mocha. Rrp is £7.99 for ...
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NewsJet forecourt joins in Halloween spirit with Scarecrows
A team of 25 volunteers from across Hammonds Group got into the Halloween spirit when the Jet AW&D Hammonds forecourt took part in the eighth annual Halesworth Scarecrow Festival. The team transformed an old 4x4 that was due to be scrapped into a spook-tacular Ford Model T pick-up inspired recovery ...
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Product news: CCE’s Christmas Truck Tour returns as festive campaign gets under way
Coca-Cola European Partners (CCEP) is gearing up to spread some festive cheer, as it reveals its Christmas 2017 campaign, which includes the return of the iconic Coca-Cola Christmas Truck Tour, ‘Holidays Are Coming’ TV advert, limited-edition Christmas packs, and sponsorship of Capital FM’s Jingle Bell Ball. With over 95% of ...
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product news: McVitie’s unveils Halloween cakes range
McVitie’s has launched a cakes range, with new-look Halloween inspired packaging and content full of expected and unexpected ingredients to cater for Trick or Treaters, lunchboxes or party foods. The range comprises McVitie’s Hobnobs Eerie Eyeball Teacakes, McVitie’s Jaffa Freaky Cake Bars, McVitie’s Jaffa Lemon and Slime Cake Bars and ...
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product news: Jenny Wren introduces sub-£10 Christmas Box
Jenny Wren, the Kentish chocolate firm, has introduced its first Christmas box for what it calls the “neglected” sub-£10 gifting category. The Christmas Collection features 12 hand-finished Belgian chocolates and truffles – including Fleur de Sel caramel, raspberry yoghurt and white mocha. The launch coincides with Jenny Wren being the ...
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product news: Diageo highlights independent alcohol opportunity this Christmas
With 28% of annual off trade alcohol sales taking place over the festive period, Diageo has extended its My Store Matters advice to help retailers tap into the sales opportunity. An extension of the ‘Inspire, Display, Sell’ initiative, the advice sets out to highlight how retailers can drive sales across ...
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Pumpkin Spice Oat So Simple for Halloween
Quaker Oats is launching a limited-edition Pumpkin Spice variant for Halloween. It comes in a sachet format (eight per pack) with an rrp of £1. The launch is supported by a social media campaign and in-store pos and theatre. According to Nielsen, half of UK adults who buy Halloween foods ...
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product news: Kerry Group majors on Halloween
Kerry Group’s Mattessons Fridge Raiders brand has joined with Thorpe Park Resort to give shoppers the chance to win a short break at the theme park during its Fright Nights event. At the same time kids’ snack Cheestrings is launching a Halloween pack ’takeover’ across its entire range, while Yollies ...
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Countdown to Christmas
Would you like to guess how much was spent on Christmas confectionery last year? Well, if you said around £800m you would be right because, according to IRI data, we in the UK spent £824m on chocolate and sweets last Christmas. A lot of that spend goes on gifting and ...
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The spirits of Christmas
Most people enjoy a tipple at Christmas, with many keen to have a range of booze on offer to impress their friends and family, which is why volume sales of spirits double over the Christmas period increasing from 3.4% to 7.2% (Nielsen).Faith Holland, head of category development at Diageo ...
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Halloween takeover for Kerry Foods’ brands
Mattessons Fridge Raiders has joined with Thorpe Park Resort to give shoppers the chance to win a short break at the theme park during its Fright Nights event.At the same time kids’ snack Cheestrings is launching a Halloween pack ’takeover’ across its entire range, while Yollies feature exclusive glow-in-the-dark character ...
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Sales that creep up on you
It doesn’t seem that long ago that the big autumn event was Bonfire Night and Halloween was some young pretender imported from the States. However, that young pretender has certainly caught the imagination of youngsters over here, so much so that it rakes in hundreds of millions of pounds worth ...
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product news: Nestlé Confectionery reveals festive plans
Nestlé Confectionery has unveiled its Christmas offering for 2017. Leading its range are the Smarties Little Choc Penguin (a chocolate shell with mini Smarties inside) and the white chocolate Milkybar Polar Bear Cub (both RRP 65p). Each features four new designs on its foil packaging, giving them added personality and ...
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product news: Pringles brings back Christmas variants
Pringles is bringing back its range of Christmas flavours in a new gift wrap designed can.This October, Xmas Turkey and Pigs in Blankets flavour Pringles will be back in stores.The cans have a limited edition festive wrap design that features a gift tag on the packaging for consumers to personalise ...