Christmas

It comes once a year … when does it start?

The festive season is round the corner and it’s one of the biggest times of the year for confectionery. Some suppliers say begin early...
Pack shots of Chupa Chups Big Babol Magic Cubes bubblegum.

Chupa Chups bubbles up some new magic

Chupa Chups is set to inject some magic in the confectionery aisle with its new Big Babol Magic Cubes Bubblegum, featuring colour-changing cubes.

PMPs hit the sweet spot

See sales soar with price-marked packs

Nosey dispensers bring the laughs

LICENSED character confectionery company Bon Bon Buddies has created three special Pez sweet dispensers for this year’s Comic Relief Red Nose Day campaign. The firm...
Flipz Pretzels

Mixing sweet and savoury

SNACK firm Pladis has extended its portfolio by bringing a brand new product to the UK and adding a new variety to an existing big seller brand
Reese's Halloween range for 2025 with pack shots of Reese's Peanut Butter Skeletons, Reese's Snack Size Peanut Butter Bats, Reese's Assorted Snack Size Shapes and Reese's King Size Peanut Butter Pumpkins.

Reese’s makes a frightful return for Halloween with a chance to win tickets to...

Reese's has unveiled its Halloween themed range for 2025 with a competition that gives shoppers the chance to win tickets to an exclusive screening of Scream 7.

Keeping consumers sweet

Newly launched in the UK after success across Europe, new snack brand Knoppers is hoping to make an impact in the confectionary market .

The pound on your packet

DOES price remain vitally important to shoppers? The short answer appears to be yes, especially £1 prices. Bev Seymour, commercial manager of Chewits brand owner...

Bag range spans shapes and sizes

VARIETY is the spice of sweet life for one of Scotland’s most important independent confectionery manufacturers. Millar has built its bagged confectionery range to cover...

Bobby’s Mega Sour Spray Can shake up sweets

Bobby's new Mega Sour Spray Can is set to shake up the sweets aisle with a unique two-in-one flavour offer that capitalises on trending consumer flavours.

Quality counts

As consumers try to cut back on sugar, chocolate products with premium credentials or offering a variety of flavours and textures are gaining ground.
The Mentos Mint Fizzooka from Fortnite Creative is against a sky blue background with white lettering that says 'FIZZOOKA'.

Mentos drops into Fortnite with new rocket launchers

Mentos has played on the famous Mentos x cola experiment with its latest foray into the video game space with the new Fizzooka across Fortnite games.

High iQ in the mood

STIRLING based iQ Chocolate won the Most Innovative Product category at the Forth Valley Chamber Business Awards 2015. The manufacturer says its iQ Chocolate is...
Skittles

A cultured new snack

Described as the firm’s ‘biggest fruity confectionery launch of 2019’, Mars Wrigley has unveiled Skittles Dips.

Fresh new campaign

Smint has been back on the small screen with a new advertising campaign

Swizzels launches new Squashies Strawberry & Cream

Swizzels has launched the latest variant in its Drumstick Squashies range with the new Strawberry & Cream flavour, available in UK stores now.