Tag: Nielsen
Beat of the treats
Chocolate confectionery maintains steady growth as sharing sizes, big nights in and new product initiatives keep consumers coming back
TREAT categories of all types may...
Spirit of home
BEER may be seen as a big-night-in staple but many spirits firms have been arguing for some time that retailers shouldn’t underestimate the growing...
Bagging a big night in bonus
THE big night in is big and getting bigger, says brand-owning giant Mondelez International.
Quoting Nielsen statistics, Mondelez trade communications manager Susan Nash said: “Evening...
Essential options to keep sales sweet
SOFT drinks is one of the most important categories to drive footfall for the Scottish convenience retail trade, but it shouldn’t be assumed that...
Easter helps grocery to grow
WHILE SRC/KPMG figures for Scotland suggest March food sales were poor, major market research firms Kantar Worldpanel and Nielsen showed grocery in Great Britain...
Off trade top 50 and most valuable brands
The range of drinks that convenience retailers have to consider, and potentially stock and display, has widened greatly in recent years. Today, with our...
Developing traditions
WHISKY has been very important to the Scottish drinks scene and to Scottish retailing for many generations. But despite the fact that Scotch whisky...
Discounters take 10%
Symbols hold steady but supermarket decline goes on and price deals account for a third of sales.
£1 in every £10 spent in...
Scots share rises
Smokers remain loyal to brands and sizes as RYO takes more of total tobacco sales
WHILE many firms and famous brands have entered the RYO...
New route to sales growth
Quoting figures from Neilsen, Mondelez says it has a 31.9% share of the UK’s £4.8bn confectionery market and it puts that down in large part...
Still on the rise
IT’S a good time to be a gin maker – or a gin drinker – in Scotland. The juniper and aromatics flavoured spirit has...
Naughty kids show sweet side in new ads
BAGS of sugar confectionery attract more than half of the spending in the UK on what Mondelez International calls candy confectionery.
Quoting Nielsen research,...
Doubling flavour blast for fast grower
WITH current sales increases of 8%, Tic Tac is said by brand owner Ferrero, quoting Nielsen figures, to be the fastest-growing sugar confectionery brand...
Merchandise to win sales
HIGH numbers of new snacking products introduced in the last year have led to confusion on the shelves, Matt Collins, trading controller convenience at...
Salads or sandwiches?
HOW should you stack your food-to-go shelves? Two recent reports give different suggestions.
Food-to-go packaging manufacturer Planglow says sandwiches are 30 times more popular than...
New limits bring sales hangover
Nielsen research finds beer, wine and spirits feel the pain as blood limits change.
Grocers hit harder than c-stores but spirits miss out on Christmas...
