Articles in category: Confectionery

Mentos launches £1.6m consumer campaign – Complimentos

Mentos is investing £1.6m in its biggest campaign of the year. The new limited edition product aims to bring people together and inject a dose of innovation into the singles category.

Nature Shift launches ‘Perfectly Broken’, broken snackable chocolate

Nature Shift has announced its second brand to market as Perfectly Broken. Nature Shift isa UK-based start-up focused on bringing snacking foods to market to help consumers make the shift to something more natural when looking for a treat.

Mentos launches limited edition Complimentos product and campaign

Mentos is investing £1.6m in its biggest campaign of the year. The new limited edition product aims to bring people together and inject a dose of innovation into the singles category.

Fisherman’s Friend reports sales uplift as hay fever season arrives early

Fisherman’s Friend is flying towards another successful year – recording value sales growth of +22 per cent and volume sales growth of +18 per cent in April, compared with the same period last year.

B&B studio delivers new brand identity for Peppersmith – small packs with big personality

Building on a long-standing agency-brand relationship, B&B has created a fresh look and feel for Peppersmith, celebrating the natural ingredients and strong flavours of each product in the brand’s range of gum and mints.

Luxury Irish chocolate brand, Lily O’Brien’s, launches Crispy Butterscotch Share Bags

Premium Irish chocolate brand, Lily O’Brien’s, has launched a new flavour to their hugely successful Share Bag collection, Crispy Butterscotch. The new flavour combines Lily O’Brien’s milk chocolate with crunchy butterscotch pieces, to deliver an outstanding and indulgent taste experience.

PVM unveils new Mentos Chewy & Fresh

a brand-new range of chewy mints this May – Chewy & Fresh. Debuting ahead of the summer refreshment sales spike, the new mints offer a unique burst of long-lasting minty freshness, in a smaller yet powerful format.

The sweet of the summer: new Vimto Remix Sodapop

Iconic soft drinks brand Vimto has collaborated with the UK’s leading confectionery distributor IB Group to launch this summer’s must stock sweet: Vimto Remix Sodapops.

GODIVA launches premium Easter Mini Eggs and Bunny

Pladis, the global snacking company behind some of the UK’s most loved and iconic brands, is driving incremental Easter sales for luxury chocolate brand GODIVA with the launch of two premium seasonal ranges.

Montrose Chocolate strengthened with Musclefood partnership

ollowing the successful Christmas and Valentine's collaborations with leading online health food retailer, Musclefood, Montrose Chocolate is pleased to confirm an official partnership with the brand and its Benefit Chocolate range of products to cover listings as well as white

Lir Chocolates egg-stends range for Easter

Lir Chocolates, one of Ireland’s leading chocolatiers, is launching a limited-edition Discovery Collection chocolate egg for the Easter period. The egg will be sold exclusively in select Tesco stores and is on sale for the first time in the UK

Alice Levine teams up with luxury Irish chocolatier, Lily O’Brien’s

Lily O’Brien’s, the luxury Irish chocolatier, is delighted to announce a new partnership with radio and TV presenter, author and comedy podcast host, Alice Levine.

Pioneering chocolate company brings seed-to-bar to market

Just when we thought the artisan chocolate market was busy enough, an exciting new player has joined from a completely new angle; Seed-to-Bar which holds a staggeringly low 0.01% of the chocolate market share.

BeanBoozled 5th edition debuts and features two outrageous new pairings for brave Jelly Belly fans

More laughs and funny faces are sure to come as Jelly Belly Candy Company debuts the 5th Edition of the BeanBoozled Collection of jelly beans. These new lookalike trickster jelly beans may look similar, but their flavours could not be

Seed and Bean secures listing with John Lewis Food Hall

British handmade chocolate brand, Seed and Bean, has today announced its new listing with retailer, John Lewis, which will see the brand on shelf in its prestigious Oxford Street Food Hall, just in time for Christmas.

Chocolate confections in Jelly Belly Jurassic World Collection available now

Jelly Belly Candy Company launches its Jurassic World Collection, in honour of the blockbusterJurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. Jelly Belly pulls back the curtain to showcase the special new collection of Jurassic World-themed chocolates, perfect for fans of all ages, available

There won’t be a crumb in sight as Muffin Break opens its new store in Cramlington

Muffin Break, the well-known café-bakery chain, has today announced that it will open its new store in Cramlington, Northumberland at 10am on Thursday 1 November 2018. The new venue will create 15 full and part-time jobs for the local community

Zizzi: exclusive ruby chocolate hits the high street for the first time

An Italian restaurant chain, Zizzi, has become the first in the country to put Ruby Chocolate on its menu.

Iceland to offer customers the choice of a Christmas without palm oil

Iceland made the decision to demonstrate to the food and retail industries that it is possible to reduce the demand for palm oil by seeking alternative ingredient solutions. Growing demand for palm oil for use in food products, cosmetics and

Introducing Gnaw’s new healthier chocolate impulse range

With the Government’s ‘sugar tax’ and their target to reduce added sugar in food and drink products by at least 20% by 2020*, manufacturers in the confectionery industry have their work cut out. Just how do they create delightful sweet

Holdsworth Chocolates boosts range offering three new drink-inspired products

Luxury British brand, Holdsworth Chocolates, has boosted its core range offering with three new lines, which have been developed to incorporate on-trend alcoholic flavours such as Gin, Espresso Martini and Prosecco.

Gnaw gets the World Chocolate Day party started

There’s surely no better way to mark World Chocolate Day (Saturday 7 July) than launching two new exciting, premium chocolate bars? So that’s exactly what the clever people at artisan chocolate producer Gnaw Chocolate have done to celebrate any chocolate lovers’