All New Product & Packaging Awards articles
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News
New Product & Packaging Awards: entry deadline extended to 28 June
The final day for submissions to the revamped event has been put back by nine days
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Guide To
The Grocer Guide To Tobacco, Vaping & Accessories
With further regulation bringing about more price rises for tobacco, suppliers are focused on the value end of the market. Meanwhile the vaping industry is tackling increased scrutiny and being urged to self-regulate.
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Guide To
The Grocer Guide To Breakfast & Brunch
Demands for breakfast & brunch in a post-pandemic world extend beyond the busy on-the-go occasion to more leisurely at-home affairs, with consumers wanting healthy, convenient and indulgent options.
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The Grocer Guide To Free From & Plant Based
With inflation hitting the free-from and plant-based category as consumers look to tighten their purse strings, suppliers are realistic about performance potential over 2023, saying only the fittest will survive.
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News
Entries open for The Grocer New Product & Packaging Awards 2023
Brands across fmcg – from alcohol to personal care – are invited to showcase their most compelling launches
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News
Pukpip makes debut with frozen snack made from wonky bananas
The brand’s mission is to ‘help consumers eat more fruit in fun, delicious and convenient ways’
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The Grocer Guide To Supply Chain
The UK’s food and drink supply chain is still facing numerous challenges, with pressure coming from a variety of global and local factors. Yet logistics suppliers are working to tackle the issues they face, with increasing use of automation and digital technologies to optimise effiency and overcome labour shortages.
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Comment & Opinion
Why the Rustlers All-Day Breakfast Pancake Stack deserves to be New Product Awards Champion of Champions
In the cost of living crisis, it’s really important to consumers that food and drink innovation delivers on taste and value
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Guide To
The Grocer Guide To Bread & Baked Goods
In a fiscally challenging UK marketplace, bread & baked goods suppliers are focusing on the appeal of their products as affordable treats, as well as showing how they can provide versatile options for an increasing number of at-home meals and social occasions, as well as cater to healthy living trends.
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Analysis & Features
The Grocer’s New Product Awards 2022: value shines through among winners
Though price and a strong sense of value ran through many launches, the existing macro trends of health, sustainability and convenience remained among this year’s winners
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Events & Awards
The Grocer’s New Product Awards 2022: World Foods
Well-known family-run business Herdez, based in Mexico City, teamed up with Tesco for the launch of this winning meal kit, bringing its 100 years of heritage in Mexican cuisine to UK supermarket shelves
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Events & Awards
The Grocer’s New Product Awards 2022: Vegetarian
Our winner’s ‘appealing flavour and texture’ was of such quality it may even fool some hardened meat-eaters, judges said
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Events & Awards
The Grocer’s New Product Awards 2022: Vegan Ready Meals & Centres
This Thai-inspired meal kit goes big on international flavours and ingredients, combining veg with plant-based proteins
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Events & Awards
The Grocer’s New Product Awards 2022: Vegan Meat & Fish Alternatives
The hyperrealism of this plant-based sausage alternative wowed our judges
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Events & Awards
The Grocer’s New Product Awards 2022: Vegan Frozen Foods
‘An outstanding product that tastes fantastic’ and provides a great match to a traditional chicken burger, said judges
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Events & Awards
The Grocer’s New Product Awards 2022: Vegan Dips & Sauces
Judges said this product delivered a fantastic flavour underpinned by a powerful punch from the chilli
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Events & Awards
The Grocer’s New Product Awards 2022: Vegan Cheese Alternatives
Combining oats and almonds, this product did a great job of matching the taste and quality of its original dairy spread, said our judges
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Events & Awards
The Grocer’s New Product Awards 2022: Sweet Snacks
Our winning product proved to be a flavoursome and portable healthy snack, said judges
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Events & Awards
The Grocer’s New Product Awards 2022: Soup
A brilliant concept well executed, said our judges of this grab & go winner
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Events & Awards
The Grocer’s New Product Awards 2022: Soft Drinks & Mixers
This product targets a gap in the adult soft drinks market for a sophisticated flavour profile that is slightly lower in sugar