Flying Fish tea

Sustainable tea making

Flying Fish Foods’ tea brand may take design cues from Monty Python, but there’s nothing silly about its sustainability goals.

A ‘can do’ attitude

THE RTD coffee sector is booming in the UK, with double-digit value sales growth that outpaces all other segments of the soft drinks category.
Pret Coffee Pods

New premium pods

HIGH street food and coffee to go brand Pret A Manger has joined forces with Jacobs Douwe Egberts to launch a new range of...
Percol reckons coffee bags provide consumers with a convenient quality coffee.

Compromise not an option

Customers increasingly seek barista quality in their homes, says coffee firm
dog on sofa behind tetley

NPD is brewing good in stores

IT should come as no surprise to hear that after tap water, tea has been found to be the nation’s most-beloved beverage.
Kenco

Café culture in the kitchen

JDE taking cues from baristas MANY Scottish consumers have spent the last 18 months, for the most part, at home. It should therefore come as no...
Keavy O'Mahony-Truesdale is delighted with Barista Bar's Spar Scotland growth.

Barista Bar and Spar Scotland partnership is thriving

Premium retail coffee offering Barista Bar, available exclusively to Spar Scotland, is shaking up the market and positioning itself as a must-have product for 2025.
PekoeTea

PekoeTea peaks at the horizon

Edinburgh tea blender PekoeTea enters 2022 with an expanded retail footprint.

Tapping into tea trends

Tata Consumer Products o­ffers its assessment of the UK tea category SOME things have changed markedly over the last two years, but one thing remains...
(left to right) Robert Milne, Rosluyn Coombe, Estelle MacGilp and Paul Chadderton all stand in a kitchen at a table with the 160th anniversary Matthew Algie cake.

Matthew Algie marks landmark 160th anniversary

Coffee roasting firm Matthew Algie has marked a landmark 160 years of business with a massive eco-transformation across its production in Glasgow.

Yorkshire recruits famous faces

A host of celebrities have been hired to star in Yorkshire Tea’s latest TV adverts, as part of a new £7m campaign. Michael Parkinson and...

Cool caffeinated NPD hits shelves

Monster Energy launches an RTD coffee COCA-Cola European Partners (CCEP) has made a major foray into the cold coffee category with the launch of a...

Iced coffee for summer

With the hope of more hot weather on the horizon, slush machine supplier Snowshock reckons it’s got an ideal coffee solution for retailers

Feeling it in your bones

LONDON-based firm Love Taste Company is bringing some hot beverage trends from overseas to British shoppers with the launch of a new range of bone broths.
Malteser and Galaxy drink pods

Chocolate pods push forward

Hot chocolate pod growth is picking up steam in the UK, helped along by the increased household penetration of coffee pod machines.
tetley Decad PMP 80s pack £2.60

Black tea still king of convenience

TEA shoppers are valuable to retailers. Whether it’s a black tea or a more exotic blend, customers picking up tea in convenience offer plenty of opportunities to increase basket spend.