Buying and supplying insight and analysis – Page 7
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Analysis & FeaturesFlurry of promotions push coffee prices down in mults
Global coffee prices fell in February for the second month running, according to the International Coffee Organization
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Analysis & Features
Botanical vodka to reusable gin bottles: what’s new in booze this April?
Every month The Grocer takes a look at the hottest booze launches heading to shop shelves
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Analysis & Features
How Kellogg’s is shaking up its global palm oil strategy
After pressure from two orangutan-loving schoolgirls, the supplier set itself a 2025 deadline for more ethical palm oil
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Analysis & Features
Cereals get dearer in the mults despite lower wheat and oat prices
The average shelf price of ready-to-eat and hot cereals is up 3% year on year
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Comment & Opinion
Unilever’s personal care review raises serious strategic questions
Established personal care brands such as Simple could be facing the axe
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Comment & Opinion
What next for Edgewell after close shave with Harry’s?
The Wilkinson Sword owner dropped its plan to buy Harry’s under threat of legal action from the FTC
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Analysis & Features
Chinese forced labour: are UK retailers doing enough to prevent it?
Should retailers be doing more to ensure forced prison labour cannot be part of their Chinese supply chains?
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Colgate offers more and deeper savings in promotions strategy shift
The oral care giant has upped the number of its offers from 84 to 106
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Coronavirus likely to drag wheat prices as Chinese demand falls
The virus is expected to knock more than 1% off China’s GDP
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Troo Nicely Nutty with Cinnamon Granola: acid test
This granola is billed as ‘the perfect gut-healthy start to the day’
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Analysis & Features
Can Nestlé’s £1.6bn investment change the face of food & drink packaging?
The Swiss giant wants a circular economy of recycled plastics
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Comment & Opinion
A plastic switch isn’t simple, but Coke is ideally placed to find a solution
Coca-Cola says its customers still want plastic bottles - but the customer isn’t always right
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Analysis & Features
How divergence from EU rules offers an opportunity for the wine industry
Changes to import rules could amplify an increasing trend of non-European ‘new world’ wines reaching the UK
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Comment & Opinion
A sugar tax would clobber pre-mixed cocktails. Why not make a labelling change?
A sugar tax on top of alcohol duties and the PDPD ban would surely drive some smaller suppliers out of business
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Analysis & Features
Does cat food contain illegally caught and endangered fish?
Unsustainably caught yellowfin tuna and Atlantic mackerel among species suspected of permeating supply chains
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Pesto crisis: is the UK's recall system fit for purpose?
How did it take up to a month from the first warning signs of peanut contamination for products to be recalled?
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Analysis & Features
Brits paying more for bacon as pig prices continue to rise
The average price of supermarket bacon is up 2% year on year
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Analysis & Features
10 of 2019’s hippest blue food & drink launches
Green was the colour of grocery in 2019, but Pantone has tipped blue to be big next year. Here’s a look back at 10 of 2019’s trendiest blue-coloured launches
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Comment & Opinion
Are alcoholic drinks brands crossing a line with ‘healthier’ positioning?
The past year has seen the launch of a multitude of brands that don’t make health claims, but do tout themselves as a healthier alternative
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Comment & Opinion
Why chocolate has emerged as the biggest winner in grocery
Chocolate took the title of fastest-growing category in this year’s Top Products Survey. That’s thanks to some savvy, well-timed innovation
