Buying and supplying insight and analysis – Page 5
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Analysis & FeaturesWeetabix Beanz and Pringles lip balm: how fmcg celebrated April Fools’ Day 2021
Here’s our pick of the best pranks from brands and retailers this April Fools’ Day
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10 new ice cream launches landing in supermarkets for summer 2021
Unilever is getting set for the summer months with host of NPD launching across its ice cream brands
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Analysis & Features
What’s the outlook for key food commodities in 2021?
With Brexit disruption and the pandemic contributing to a volatile market, what’s the outlook for key food commodities this year?
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Comment & Opinion
Carbon taxes could help the UK achieve its net zero aim – but there’s a catch
If a carbon tax makes British-reared animal products unaffordable, the market will simply shift towards cheaper imports
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Comment & Opinion
Tilda’s ‘Elevate Your Plate’ ad is a cut above
Tilda’s impressive ‘Elevate Your Plate’ campaign appropriately manages to elevate a couple of established food ad tropes, too
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Beyond Meat and PepsiCo’s Planet Partnership has big mutual benefits
The new company will combine Pepsi’s marketing expertise and commercial heft with Beyond’s plant protein savvy
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Five healthier food & drink products swapping sugar for fruit
To mark Sugar Awareness Week, we highlight five products using fruit as a healthier alternative
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How will Covid shape food and drink trends in 2021?
Will we see a return to normal, or will shoppers persist with the new habits they formed under lockdown?
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The five fastest-growing plant-based brands in 2020
UK sales of meat-free and plant-based dairy products have roughly doubled over the past five years, here are the brands that brought home the meat-free bacon last year
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Can the vegan eating boom continue at pace?
With each Veganuary comes yet more momentum for the plant-based movement. But the vegan market is still small fry compared with meat and dairy – and questions remain over its long-term potential
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Four key impacts of the Brexit deal on UK food & drink
The trade deal dodges punishing tariffs, but there are plenty of changes for the UK food industry to adapt to, despite little notice
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Top Campaigns: the 50 best brand adverts of 2020
From fraughtly shouting fruit bowls to frozen fish shavings, ad makers have had to cook up new ways of catching the eyes of locked down consumers this year, here’s our pick of the best
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Comment & Opinion
Five tips to help small brands disrupt the grocery status quo
Family businesses seek sustainable, long-term growth. We want to hand our business down, not thrash it then flog it
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Analysis & Features
5 new food & drink products enriched with vitamin D
Following reports that it reduces the risk of catching coronavirus, the so-called ‘sunshine vitamin’ is popping up in a raft of new launches
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Comment & Opinion
Walkers' potato play shows the benefits of cross-category collaboration on carbon
Walkers wants to bring potatoes “full circle”, using innovative new carbon capture technology
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Comment & Opinion
What the grocery trade has been taught by 2020’s hardships
Grocery has proved its importance and its agility this year, says Jeremy Garlick, partner at Insight Traction
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Analysis & Features
What does second lockdown mean for food and drink?
Supermarkets and suppliers are better prepared for lockdown II but confusing government messages really aren’t helping
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US food standards explained: what’s the issue?
Why are chlorinated chicken and hormone-treated cows so contentious? And what problems do they pose for British farming?
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The virtual sales pitch: how buyers and sellers have adapted
When lockdown hit, buyers and brands had to quickly adapt to a new normal of Zoom meetings and home deliveries. Turns out, there are benefits to this new way of working
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New food & drink Advent calendars launching for Christmas 2020
For many, the countdown to Christmas (and the end of 2020) can’t come soon enough. Here are the foodie calendars that’ll make Advent even more exciting
