All Seasonal articles – Page 9
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product news: Nestlé unveils Halloween offer
Nestlé Confectionery is aiming to help retailers capitalise on consumer spending at Halloween with the launch of a wider range of products for 2015. The new Mini Smarties Trick or Treat Pumpkin (RRP £3.00) will lead the range, and comes with 10 boxes of mini Smarties inside. A tear strip ...
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Bring on spring
With all your Christmas stock, staff and rotas sorted (hopefully), it’s time to look ahead to the spring occasions Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day and Easter. According to Mintel’s Seasonal Shopping report from August, 68% of consumers spend money on Easter products and services; 64% spend on Mother’s Day items; ...
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Service Centre: Jac Roper on Christmas opening; the rise of own brand; and analysing your sales
Deck the Halls with Boston Charlie... It was always my favourite, fractured yuletide ’carol’. I thought originally that it referred to some mafia ’event’ involving an unfortunate Boston-based bloke called Charlie, and his fate was to be plastered around the walls. But that turned out to be wrong as it’s ...
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Christmas additions
Bobby’s Foods has launched a host of new products in time for Christmas.These include Mini Cheesy Cracker Snacks baked savoury biscuit shapes with a cheesy flavour, with a rrp of £1 for 150g. Big share bags of BBQ Snack Mix, Prawn Spirals and Sweet & Salted Popcorn are also ...
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Christmas crackers
KP’s nuts range is getting bigger with the launch of Big Bag Nuts in four varieties: salted, dry roasted, salt & vinegar and spicy chilli.They come in 450/500g bags with a rrp of £2.40.The festive KP Nuts caddies are back in best-selling jumbo salted, dry roasted and honey roast variants. ...
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Making Christmas special
Urban Eat has five limited-edition ’Christmas Specials’ including a turkey feast sandwich, brie & bacon wrap and a Posh Nosh white stilton & festive chutney sandwich.
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NewsPRODUCT NEWS: Retro sweets for Halloween
With Halloween fast-approaching, Bonds Confectionery is highlighting its Retro Mixed Bag as the ideal product to meet the demand from retailers buying in stock to cater for consumers stocking up on trick or treat goodies. Available in 150 gram bags and retailing at £1 a bag, the product provides retailers ...
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Make sure you score
You can expect a mad rush in your store on the night of Saturday June 14, as footie fans stock up in time for 11pm, and the kick-off of England’s first game in the FIFA World Cup 2014. As part of Group D, they will be taking on Italy in ...
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Beware: Halloween is creeping up on us all
If you haven’t yet embraced Halloween in your store, this year is the time to do it. That’s because it is now the third biggest seasonal event behind Christmas and Easter and, according to Planet Retail, has enjoyed double-digit growth over the past three years. Food manufacturers are obviously keen ...
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Diageo adds colour to Christmas time
Diageo is launching a new in-store media campaign to encourage shoppers to serve more exciting drinks over the festive season. The ’Add Colour to Christmas’ campaign is designed to challenge beer and wine as the default at-home drinks choice over the crucial festive period.Rolling out nationwide this month, the campaign ...
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Retailers challenged to get into Halloween spirit
Mace and Cadbury are running a Halloween competition, challenging Mace retailers to create a spectacular Halloween display in-store. The competition, which runs until 31st October 31, is encouraging retailers to use in-store theatre to drive footfall and profits around Halloween, the third biggest retail event of the year. To help ...
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Cracking Christmas lines coming soon from Ginsters
Ginsters has announced its Christmas 2012 line-up. This comprises two special edition sandwiches: the Christmas cracker and cranberry, Wensleydale & bacon; plus a special edition turkey, bacon & cranberry pasty.They will be available nationally from next month. The sandwiches have rrps of £3.49 and £2.99 respectively, while the pasty has ...
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Three for Christmas
Cuisine de France is launching three new lines for Christmas: mincemeat, cranberry & almond slice; and two flowerpot muffins (orange & cranberry and chocolate & orange).
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Christmas with Mars
New to Mars Chocolate’s Christmas range is the Galaxy luxury selection which features Galaxy Gift For You. Separately, Galaxy Gift For You has a new truffle variant so one half of the product comprises solid Galaxy chocolate while the other half is filled with either caramel or truffle.Meanwhile, Celebrations has ...
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Halloween and Christmas covered by Kraft Foods
Kraft Foods is launching Cadbury Crunchy Spiders for Halloween. They are foil-wrapped chocolates filled with green crunchy bits. There are two spider designs, each with creepy crawly legs.In addition, Cadbury Screme Eggs have been improved with the ’goo-lish’ green fondant centre even more garish this time around.There is also a ...
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Fears of record fuel prices following rapid Christmas and New Year increases
RMIP’s fuel price monitoring system, Big Oil, has seen the steepest and fastest-ever rise in wholesale costs over the festive period. From Monday 19 December to Thursday 5 January the cost of diesel increased by nearly 4.50ppl and unleaded petrol by as much as 5.00ppl with 20% VAT to be ...
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Londis boasts £1m pre-Christmas sales
Londis pre-Christmas sales have exceeded £1m for the first time. The sales accounted for Christmas orders placed by Londis resellers with Musgrave GB for confectionery and grocery ranges and included orders received for the Halloween period.Paul Courtney, Londis sales director, said: “This incredible achievement has taken place while the economic ...
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Jingle tills
Love it or loathe it, Christmas is not that far away. In fact it’s probably little more than 80-odd days away. You might think the grocery mults have got Christmas sewn up and stitched you up in the process but your customers will expect at least a smattering of seasonal ...
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Christmas crackers
Ginsters has three special-edition sandwiches and a special-edition pasty for Christmas all in-store from November 2.The Ginsters classic Christmas Cracker sandwich has a new recipe this year. It includes British turkey, Cumberland sausage, cranberry & red onion chutney, sage & onion stuffing and mayonnaise. Cranberry, Wendsleydale & bacon is ...
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Novelty value
The days when the confectionery companies each launched dozens of new lines for Christmas are long gone but there are still some new product extensions to look out for.From Cadbury there’s a Wishes Gift pack and London 2012 lines. From Mars there are two new Galaxy products while Nestlé has ...