Kids love sweets
Children and teenagers continue to represent a significant target audience for the global confectionery industry, according to a new report entitled Children’s Food & Drinks – Global Trends & Opportunities, from Leatherhead Food Research.
Caramel delight
Traiteur de Paris, creator of the professional fine patisseries Premium frozen range for French and International Chefs, has launched a new dessert: Caramel Delight. The dessert features a crumble base topped with cream and a light caramel topping sprinkled with crumbly flakes with a rich and creamy salt butter caramel filling. The desserts are manufactured […]
Alpaca joins ‘sweeet’ family
United Biscuits (UB) has launched the latest TV advert in its now iconic McVitie’s ‘sweeet’ series, and the first for its new biscuit, McVitie’s DeliChoc. As well as showcasing the thickly coated Belgian chocolate biscuit with an intensely crunchy sensation, the advert introduces a brand new member of the ‘sweeet’ animal family – the alpaca. […]
Cracking results for 2014
Eat Natural, the fruit and nut bar brand, has announced a cracking set of results for 2014 and promises to ‘raise the bar’ for 2015 and beyond, by investing in new machinery, people and markets. Praveen Vijh, the co-founder of Eat Natural, believes that “Market forces have collided in the past 12 months, seeing a […]
Bon appetit from Mrs Tilly
Larbert based family business Tilly Confectionery – manufacturers of the Mrs Tilly’s range of traditional Scottish tablet, fudge and macaroon – have secured a contract that will see them launch their range of five Scottish 150g fudge products across the French market in April. With Mrs Tilly’s products now a firm favourite of consumers at […]
Single-origin gift boxes
In the lead up to Valentine’s Day, French chocolatier zChocolat is launching a range of chocolate gift boxes. Each gift box in the collection includes a selection of dark, white and milk single-origin couverture chocolates from Venezuela and the Ivory Coast. Customers can choose to fill the gift boxes with a giant, half pound chocolate […]
Global snack market
Virginia Garavaglia, global brand footprint director, Kantar Worldpanel, provides an update on the market for snack products around the world.
Up on the roof
As two Italian chefs expertly demonstrated how a Raffaello is created at the Ferrero Carnival press event on Friday, it was easy to imagine that each and every one of these chocolates is hand made with such skill and precision. The samples we were offered were not the chocolates we had watched being made before […]
Fun on the go
Ferrero is launching nutella & GO in the UK this month following success in the US, France and Germany. Targeted at teens and young adults, nutella & GO! is a portable pack containing hazelnut and cocoa spread on one side and little breadsticks for dipping on the other, suited for a range of snacking occasions. […]
Galettes range launched in UK
Bonne Maman, traditional bakers of French biscuits and cakes, has recently introduced their new Galettes range in UK retailers. Three flavours of Galettes, lemon and poppy seed, caramel and sea salt and chocolate, will be launched this May in a variety of UK supermarkets and retailers. Additionally, Bonne Maman will be supporting their Madeleine range […]
M&M’s store opens in France
The first M&M’s store in France has just opened its doors at Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport. The 116 square metre shop managed by LS Travel Retail features a mix of M&M’s characters and a Parisian theme – for example, the entrance to the store is a replica of the Arc de Triomphe. “We are delighted […]
Story teller
Having been impressed by the flavour and packaging of this Lithuanian chocolate brand at last years Salon du Chocolat show in London, Susannah Millen caught up with the founder of Chocolate Naïve, Domantas Uzpalis, to find out more.
Italian range comes to UK
Bon Bon Buddies has secured a contract to distribute products from Italian confectioner Zaini in the UK. Bon Bon Buddies already distributes Zaini products in France and Poland. The UK Zaini range includes Spiderman, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and Disney Frozen chocolate surprise eggs available as part of Bon Bon Buddies’ all year round offering. In […]
Do consumers care?
Sustainability may be big news in the food industry, but when it comes to purchasing decisions, do consumers really care? Not according to new research from the European Food Information Council (EUFIC). More than 4,000 consumers from six European countries – UK, Spain, France, Germany, Poland and Sweden – were asked about their understanding of […]