All Rankings articles – Page 3
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Analysis & Features
Baby & infant products 2022: brands see benefit among Brit ‘baby bump’
You’d be forgiven for thinking the UK was in the grip of a post-pandemic baby boom. After all, sales in the three main infant care categories have grown a combined £84.2m
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Dairy – yoghurts & desserts 2022: Protein helps Arla buck fall in volumes
In a category where meaningful growth has been hard to come by, Arla has landed a 26% rise in value
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Dairy - drinks 2022: Price rises hit sales of branded milk
A pint of milk has become a bellwether for rising food prices in 2022
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Dairy – cheese 2022: Inflation and end of Covid melt cheese
Increasing prices and the end of Covid stockpiling have compounded sinking sales
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Free-from 2022: Specialist diet brands hit by price squeeze
The success for private label comes as big-name brands register wildly divergent fortunes
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Ready meals 2022: Charlie Bigham’s snatches top spot
For the first time, Charlie Bigham’s has outsold Rustlers – and by a considerable margin
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Household cleaning 2022: Pandemic cleaning boom ends
While the other six sectors in this report have registered little or no value gains, fabric cleaning products have raked in the cash
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Personal care – hygiene 2022: Deodorants bounce back from Covid decline
The personal hygiene category is enjoying the sweet smell of success
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Bagged snacks 2022: Crisps hit by rising costs before HFSS
For bagged snack brands, this year was supposed to hold one big challenge: the ban on HFSS goods in prominent store locations
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Cereal 2022: Giants Kellogg’s and Nestle win against own label
Brands have fared better than own label cereals in the tough conditions of the past year, despite costing more
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Confectionery – chocolate 2022: Easter saves choc in difficult year
Chocolate’s on the skids. Grocers have sold 91.2 million fewer bars, bags and boxes of the stuff in the past year
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Confectionery – sugar and gum 2022: Sweets surge as Brits get out and about
Candy’s value in grocery is up 6.9%, while gum sales have spiked 16.7%
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Rankings
Five fastest falling products of 2022
The UK’s weather was the humble spud’s downfall this year
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Canned goods 2022: Baked beans fall victim to price spikes
Heinz Beanz became a poster child for inflation’s effects this year
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Cooking sauces 2022: sauces find growth ‘hard to come by’
Category volumes have dived 9.9%, with all top 10 brands in decline
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Dairy – butters & spreads 2022: Spreads slip as lockdowns come to end
If there’s one category that sums up the toll of inflation in grocery, it’s butters and spreads
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Meat-free 2022: Fake meat lines giving life to brands
In the meat-free market, fakery is an attribute
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Jams & spreads 2022: Spreads lose £19m in wake of pandemic
The category has taken a knock after lockdown stockpiling came to an end
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Fresh fruit & veg 2022: fresh produce hit by ‘tough 12 months’
Fruit & veg has borne the brunt of the cost of living crisis
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Rankings
The 10 fastest falling categories of 2022 by value
The reopening of bars and restaurants was a powerful blow for grocery’s sales of spirits