Buying and supplying insight and analysis – Page 8
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Comment & OpinionExercise calorie labelling: another silly idea to tackle obesity
Calorie content information is helpful, but it isn’t a strong indication of whether food is healthy or not
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Comment & Opinion
Hard seltzers encourage underage drinking? Don’t be so dramatic
Hard seltzers are lightly flavoured, don’t contain sugar and come in grown-up packaging
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Comment & Opinion
High street hot drink sellers must shape up on sugar reduction – or face regulation
Action on Sugar’s report showed many high street coffee chains were failing to reduce sugar in their festive hot drinks
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Comment & Opinion
How to resolve the dizzying uncertainty of CBD regulation?
As consumer interest and NPD grow, guidelines and advice seem to get correspondingly more frustrating
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Analysis & Features
Fruit-infused gins and Ben Nevis-brewed beer: what’s coming in booze this December?
There’s infused gins and cider aplenty, with new launches from Fuller’s, Hawkes Cider and Manchester Gin
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Analysis & Features
Sainsbury’s Cinnamon Bun Flavour Festive Pretzels: Acid test
A limited-edition play on pretzels for the festive season
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Analysis & Features
Brits paying more for soup as supermarket prices rise
On average, wet ambient soup is now 6% more expensive than last year in the major supermarkets
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Comment & Opinion
Grocery has a duty to battle obesity in pets, not just people
More than 1.7 million dog owners and one million cat owners in the past year have been told their animals are too fat
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Analysis & Features
Grocery Advent calendar: 24 foodie Christmas products to look out for
Here’s our pick of the trend-led products that stand to win big this Christmas – or at least generate a substantial amount of buzz
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Comment & Opinion
Coke’s Aha moment is unlikely to make waves in the UK seltzer sector… yet
Aha feels a bit rushed, but it could bring something different to the burgeoning category (with a different name)
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Analysis & Features
ASF crisis set to swell pork & poultry production in Europe
Despite expected growth across nearly all regions, global meat production will fall
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Analysis & Features
Health & beauty deals on the increase but savings get shallower
Asda, Co-op, Morrisons, Sainsbury’s and Tesco all increased featured promotional space
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Analysis & Features
Tea prices rise at the mults as ingredient costs increase
Dozens of black tea, fruit tea and herbal infusions SKUs have faced price hikes over the past 12 months
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Analysis & Features
Algae: can pond slime feed a growing global population?
Easy-to-produce vegan protein made from algae could feed a soaring population – but will consumers go for it?
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Comment & Opinion
The Bearded Brewery’s Suicyder is more than obnoxious – it’s dangerous
The lethal nature of depression and other mental illnesses is not a marketing tool
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Analysis & Features
BrewDog’s botanical rum, Yellow Tail ‘Pure Bright’ and socially-conscious beer: what’s coming in booze this November?
Each month The Grocer takes an in-depth look at the hottest upcoming booze launches. And it’s a rum heavy round-up this month
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Analysis & Features
Colgate ramps up savings as Brexit and Christmas approach
Colgate saw its total number of featured space promotions in the major mults rise 14% on this time last year
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Comment & Opinion
The next frontier for grocery robots? Instant gratification
The potential for delivery bots is huge – but they will need to speed up to satisfy the impulse market
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Comment & Opinion
‘Superbug’ study raises further questions about raw petfood
BARF diets risk exposing animals to antibiotic-resistant bacteria, a University of Zurich study found
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Analysis & Features
Farm Africa’s 1,000-trees challenge: helping young Ugandan women thrive in the coffee business
Eight industry execs want to help young people – and particularly young women – in Uganda build their own businesses
