Top Products by category
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Hot beverages 2022: Costa makes a splash in hot drinks
Sales of Costa’s coffee and hot chocolate lines have added £6.8m, with volumes surging 72%
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Frozen food 2022: long-term behavioural shift paying dividends
Under normal circumstances, a £119.8m decline on volumes down 10.7% would spark panic in supplier HQs. But things haven’t been normal for quite some time
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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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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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Personal care – health and sex 2022: Sniffles drive boom for cold cures
As with facial tissues, a sniffles renaissance has done wonders for sales of cold & flu remedies
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Tobacco & vaping 2022: Disposable vapes drive stunning growth
Elf Bar is now the most valuable e-cig brand by a considerable margin, having shifted an extra 55.8 million units
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Home baking 2022: Baking boom over as values freefall
Don’t tell Mary Berry: Britain’s home baking boom is well and truly over
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Bottled water, squash & cordial 2022: Squash gets squished post-pandemic
Just as they were lifted up by Covid – putting an end to several years of decline – so they have bumped back down to earth with the return of normality
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Juices & smoothies 2022: Impulse sales drive faster juice growth
The return of impulse occasions is still bearing fruit for juices & smoothies
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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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Ice cream 2022: Handheld ice cream gets family boost
The category has seen a rise in family-friendly lines as kids and parents cooled off over the scorching summer
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Table sauces and seasonings 2022: Mayo bucks trend of fall in sauce sales
Brits have spent an extra £11.5m on mayo across Hellmann’s and Heinz lines – all of which either kept volume losses to a minimum or shifted more packs
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Personal care – oral 2022: Sales to smile about as Brits brush up
Brits have spent an extra £24.8m on toothpaste and toothbrushes in the past year
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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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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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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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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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Alcohol – wine 2022: Hardys bucks slump in still wine sales
Hardys has outdone its nearest rivals. Grocery’s biggest wine brand has added £4m
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Alcohol – beer & cider 2022: Lager’s new players buck sales slump
Lager has lost its fizz, but new and nascent lines have proven to be impressive outliers
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Alcohol – spirits & RTDs 2022: Vodka and whisky steal gin’s thunder
Only eight of the UK’s top 50 spirits brands added value this year