Retailers barking up the wrong tree?
C-STORE owners are missing a trick by neglecting the needs of pet owners. That’s the opinion of Dave Minton, category and customer marketing director...
Beyond the block
An over-reliance on traditional block cheddar is holding back the cheese category according to Bel UK. It argues that it’s time to look elsewhere...
Crisp and high
Niche brands, premium lines, unusual flavours and healthier versions are just some of the options designed to push up profit on crisps and snacks.
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The $1.3tr question
What is a snack, anyway? The definition can be elusive but what isn’t in doubt is that global sales of quick and easy eats,...
Popping across
AMERICAN snack brand, Popchips, is coming to Scotland. Having launched in London in 2012, and in some English regional cities last year, Scotland is...
Making pots of profit
SNACK-hungry customers plus a microwave add up to tasty profit opportunities, according to hot snacks specialist Kepak Convenience Foods.
Quoting IRI figures, Kepak’s John Armstrong...
Lunch munch chance
CHEESE presents a huge lunchtime snacking opportunity for convenience retailers, argues Bel UK, which produces Mini Babybel, The Laughing Cow and Leerdammer.
The company...
Buttery future
THE backlash against artificial foods has been great news for butter in all its formats. Dairy giant, Arla Foods, reckons that butter’s natural credentials...
Becoming a cheese nation of softies?
WHETHER it’s to serve with crackers at the end of a dinner party or to shove under the grill for an emergency late-night munch,...
Official: Orkney cheddar is unique
AFTER a four year campaign Orkney Cheddar has been awarded PGI (Protected Geographical Indication) status by the EU. That puts the cheese on a...
Symbol group snacks up for the cup
SPAR is urging its symbol group members to make the most of the current World Cup with its own-brand range of snacking and sharing...
McEwans adds an IPA
THE McEwan’s Beer Company has a brand new IPA. Not to be confused with previous McEwan’s beers of the same name, the new brew...
Pots of puddings
A new ambient dessert from Ambrosia, designed for what manufacturer Premier Foods calls “the midweek pudding market,” aims to take on the chilled twin...
Beer firm takes rum speer
IMPORTER Morgenrot has added a 5.3% ABV spirit beer – or “speer” – to its portfolio. Bachata is a lager flavoured with Cuban rum....
Packed lunch fightback begins
HOVIS is fighting back against the decline in packed lunches (measured by Kantar as down by 80m lunchboxes last year). As the economy picks...
Spread giant heads for countline shelf
NUTELLA & Go, a snackpack based on the popular chocolate and hazelnut spread, is coming to the UK next month. It is already doing...
