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It has launched two ‘Straight Up’ sourdoughs and one ‘Twisted Sourdough’ into Ocado Geary’s Bakery has launched a mass of new SKUs into Asda and Ocado for its Jason’s Sourdough brand. The supplier – whose first branded range of loaves was named The Grocer’s Top Launch in the bakery category last year – has debuted three ‘Breads of the World’ into the Asda’s in-store bakeries. They are: New York Inspired, a classic white & rye sourdough with caraway seeds, Baltics Inspi...

By Ellis Hawthorne2020-12-18T00:01:00+00:00 Source: Unsplash Like high heels and sparkly outfits, make-up was tossed aside this year. The impact on the category wasn’t pretty. Locked-down Brits’ decision to go au naturel cost the cosmetics market £182.8m in the mults. Its three biggest names – Rimmel, Maybelline and L’Oréal – dropped a combined £74.3m alone. That’s bad news for a market that was struggling in traditional retail before Covid-19, as star brands lost share to chea...

By Ronan Hegarty2020-12-18T00:01:00+00:00 Source: Unsplash Pre-Covid, specialist vape shops were one of the fastest-growing areas of bricks and mortar retail. Then came the pandemic. Lockdown rules deemed the stores non-essential, and they were obliged to close for large swathes of 2020. The restrictions on opening that arrived in March, and formed part of subsequent local and regional measures, clearly forced a major shift in the shopping habits of vapers. As with many fmcg sectors, online o...

Source: Unsplash Can butters, spreads and margarine expect another golden year in 2021? Or are hopes for further growth likely to melt away? As is stands, the category is in a position of strength. Its value has leapt by £128.1m (9.9%) this year, and it’s sold an extra 27.2 million kg thanks to the many millions of extra at-home eating occasions. Those figures mark something of a turnaround for BSM, which stayed in value growth in 2019 only because of price hikes. Arla, for one, seems optimi...

By Rob Brown2020-12-18T00:01:00+00:00 Source :Unsplash Amid all the huge stories of 2020, it might be easy to dismiss as trivial the news of a dietary landmark. That is, for the first time, Brits have spent more money on rice, noodles and pasta than they’ve spent on fresh potatoes. That the spud is no longer king of carbs is a milestone that matters. Because the move towards other options marks the culmination of the trend towards convenient and exotic food. And it also shows an abrupt swin...

By Harry Holmes2020-12-18T00:01:00+00:00 Oat milk has grown ahead of soya, lactose-free and nut milks To succeed in free-from, you could do far worse than to position yourself somewhere between “good and f***ing fearless”. Or at least, so claims Oatly. The message came from CEO Toni Petersson, who gave employees a lesson in how the brand could distinguish itself from its rivals soon after his appointment in 2012. The rest, as they say, is history. This year, Oatly delivered the largest ab...

In a year of home baking and little to celebrate, value went flat Cake’s going stale. In a year of home baking and little to celebrate, value went flat. Own-label lines, usually the star of the show, suffered a near £20m decline. And while some big brands grew in value, much of that was down only to higher prices. The home baking revival was a key reason behind the poor performance, says Scott Snell, customer VP at McVitie’s owner Pladis. “With shoppers trying their hand at homemade cake...

By George Nott2020-12-18T00:01:00+00:00 Source: Unsplash Coronavirus isn’t the only disease stifled by social distancing and mask wearing. In the first half of 2020, cases of the common cold and influenza fell to nine times lower than the five-year average, according to a Royal College of General Practitioners study. Little wonder, then, that 12 million fewer packs of cold & flu remedies have gone through the tills in the past 12 months. Only two of the top 10 brands – Lemsip and Strepsil...

By George Nott2020-12-18T00:01:00+00:00 Source: Unsplash Going out on the pull has practically become a thing of the past. And that’s bad news for the sex care category. With pubs, bars and nightclubs closed for weeks at a time, and social distancing advised at all times, opportunities for rumpy pumpy have been much fewer. Suppliers have blamed this situation for the severe slowdown in condom sales. The sector has shed 14.1% off its volumes in grocery – the equivalent of nearly one millio...