Tesco is ordering in extra stock to accommodate demand for low and no alcohol drinks this Christmas: as it predicts a record season for the category in the UK.
With most consumers now horrified by excess plastic packaging, supermarket giant Tesco has scrapped multipacks completely for its own label drinks. Does this signal the beginning of the end for the multipack format?
UK retailer Tesco says that until recently, kefir was a niche dairy product in the UK - bought mainly by Eastern European shoppers, a region where it is very popular.
Irish-headquartered food company Kerry Group has inaugurated its new facility in India, which when fully operational, will support 300 new jobs, however, the group's consumer foods division, Kerry Foods, is to close its site in Burton in the UK with...
UK supermarket giant Tesco has been found to have “seriously breached” the legally-binding Groceries Supply Code of Practice that was created to protect grocery suppliers.
Return to school can be an abundant time for food and drink makers, but stakeholder actions are rupturing market safeholds as health concerns rise, says Euromonitor analyst Lauren Bandy in this guest article.
Heineken invests in a new Mexican brewery; Tetley USA donates 10 million cups of tea; and Ardagh’s birthday present for Coca-Cola: some of the nuggets of news in this week’s Beverage Bites feature.
Rebel Kitchen celebrates Tesco listings in mission for healthy snacks
Rebel Kitchen is launching its children’s coconut ‘mylks’ in Tesco this week, just 10 months after CEO and entrepreneur Tamara Arbib started the business.
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Tesco’s top soft drinks buyer has warned entrepreneurs that the category graveyard is full of promising brands that failed because they ran out of cash, despite getting their concept ‘spot on’.
EDITOR'S COMMENT: ZENITH & BSDA UK SOFT DRINKS CONGRESS 2014
Skeptical Englishman and former schoolboy squash drinker Ben Bouckley predicts that Vimto’s super-concentrated squash won’t wash in a market saturated with budget options, despite Mio’s US success.
A consumer packaging audit that encourages shoppers to leave behind what they view as excess packaging is designed to inform a wider research project, claims a leading UK retailer.
The GM debate at times seems much like the Hokey Cokey (or Pokey, if you’re US-based). There’s been a lot of putting in, some putting out, and quite a lot of shaking things all about, but as of yet, there hasn’t really been a turnaround and definitely...
A new heat-resistant printed film is to be launched by European
packaging group Sealed Air Cryovac, allowing in-store bakeries to
bake products in already labelled packaging.
The bakery industry is capitalizing on the increase in demand for
fruit ingredients from manufacturers providing for health-conscious
consumers with UK retailer Tesco, alone launching 15 new baked
goods containing berries in the last...
With its hefty buying power and unfettered growth strategy, the
UK's leading supermarket chain Tesco is set to snatch the
convenience retail top spot from Spar, analysts predict.
The increasing standard of living in Asia has created a higher
demand for 'western' products in many food categories, according to
a new Research and Markets report, reports Claire Johnston.
European customers are demanding greater assurances of quality and
hygiene in their food products. A recent conference on the
packaging of fish examined at what the industry was doing to meet
these concerns.
GlaxoSmithKline's Plenty juice drink brand is to be relaunched six
months after it was withdrawn. Market analysts Datamonitor assess
the product's chances of success.
