Confectionery: Chocolate: Top Products 2020
By Daniel Woolfson2020-12-18T00:01:00+00:00 Source: Unsplash Chocolate is no longer flavour of the month. In contrast to last year’s sweet performance, this year’s sales are likely to leave a bitter taste in the mouths of suppliers. In fact, while other categories benefited enormously from Britain’s stockpiling and comfort-eating, chocolate failed to add value in Nielsen’s read of the grocery market, and only saw a 0.7% increase in volume. It would be easy to blame Covid-19 for such woes. After all, lockdown largely put an end to on-the-go and impulse purchases, and Easter took a se...