All Seasonal articles – Page 6
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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 ...
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product news: Fanta reveals Halloween plans
Coca-Cola European Partners (CCEP) is planning its biggest Halloween campaign from Fanta, including exclusively designed packaging, smaller 150ml can multipacks and an advertising and experiential marketing campaign. New ghoulish graphics on packs of Fanta have been specially designed by artist Noma Bar and will run from September 16 to November ...
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product news: Tangerine reveals its Halloween line-up
Tangerine Confectionery has unveiled details of its Halloween offering. The Sweet Champions Halloween Assorted 200g Bag (MRRSP £1) features a selection of the UK’s favourite sweets - a mixture of mini Whams (strawberry, sour apple & original raspberry flavours), Fruit Salad Lollies and Black Jack Lollies. Sold in Halloween themed ...
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product news: Ferrero reveals Christmas plans
Ferrero says it will be investing £8.2m this Christmas while launching new products across its brands, including advent calendars and new boxed chocolate products. Levi Boorer, customer development director at Ferrero, commented: “Following a successful Christmas in 2016, it is important as a leading confectionery manufacturer, to offer retailers products ...
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product news: Pernod Ricard unveils Christmas campaigns
In the run-up to Christmas Pernod Ricard UK is launching two campaigns focused on helping retailers increase sales of Scotch whisky and popular cocktail and mixer ingredients: ‘Expertly Selected Whiskies’ and ‘Mix with The Good Stuff’. The ‘Expertly Selected’ range, identified by Pernod Ricard UK, includes five of the supplier’s ...
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product news: pladis unites brands in Christmas campaign
pladis has unveiled plans for what it describes as its biggest ever Christmas brand campaign. For the first time the McVitie’s, Jacob’s and Carr’s brands will come together under the campaign banner “Merry Biscuits everyone.” With a total investment of £1.3m to support McVitie’s, Jacob’s and Carr’s, the seasonal campaign ...
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Money spinners
Who knew that so many people wanted a car boot organiser or a large pet blanket or a car dash cam? Even though that’s a bit of a rhetorical question, there is an answer and that is ’the pump-top promotion companies’. That’s because these businesses have their fingers on the ...
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product news: Wrigley extends Halloween range
This August, Wrigley is extending its seasonal range to five Halloween SKUs. Following a successful trial last year, Wrigley is launching its Skittles Fruits and Sours Tubs across all customers. The new tubs have an RRP of £5, and are aimed at trick or treaters containing 29 individual 26g packs ...