By The Grocer2021-04-23T10:07:00+01:00
The story of Covid-19 in grocery is one of feast and famine. For the feasting, look at the massive value gains across this report. The top 100 brands are worth an extra £2.06bn in total, after locked- down shoppers packed their fridges, freezers and kitchen cupboards, with the UK’s biggest brand, Cadbury, putting on an extra £140m in sales.
As a result, this year’s rundown shows 76 brands in value growth, with 47 having grown by double digits. To underline the significance of those numbers, compare and contrast with 2019’s: 53 brands in growth, just seven by double digits.
Team GB receives support from Birds Eye Green Cuisine ahead of Tokyo 2020 04/12/21
Team GB is proud to welcome Birds Eye as an official supporter ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, which are set to inspire the nation when they kick-off on Friday 23rd July in 2021.
The collaboration will see Birds Eye’s Green Cuisine brand become the official plant-based supporter of Team GB, continuing the brand’s efforts to make meat-free more mainstream and promoting the power of plants.
With under four months until the start of Tokyo 2020, this exciting collaboration will see Birds Eye launch a new TVC tag as part of a detailed marketing campaign, which will incorporate in-store activations, on-pack promotions and social media activity with Team GB athletes.
Record-breaking Christmas wine sales for Concha y Toro UK 26th January, 2021 by Patrick Schmitt
Concha y Toro wine brands Trivento and Casillero del Diablo have enjoyed record-breaking UK Christmas sales due to “the unprecedented trading situation”.
Concha y Toro’s leading brand, Casillero del Diablo, has hit record levels of ‘household penetration’
Using results released this morning for the 12-week period to 2 January, the wine group showed how its leading wine brands have performed extraordinarily well over the festive retailing period, benefitting from their excellent off-trade distribution and the closure of the hospitality sector for much of this time due to Government restrictions relating to Covid-19.
TVN Focus On Business | Nexstar Remains Firmly Atop Station Groups
It comes out No. 1 on
TVNewsCheck-BIA Advisory Services’ annual list of the Top 30 groups ranked by total revenue for the second year in a row. It was a pretty calm 12 months, with little M&A and the top five slots returning unchanged.
By Mark K. Miller & Harry A. Jessell | June 10, 2020 | 5:31 a.m. ET.
While the past 12 months have been pretty momentous in most cases, in the case of ranking publicly traded TV station groups by total revenue, it’s been pretty much the same old, same old.
The top five spots remain the same from the list