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• Thursday, August 26th, 2010, (9:14 am)

  NEW HIGH FIBRE CEREAL MIXES LAUNCH IN UK

  Ingredients supplier, Eurostar Commodities Ltd, has launched a new range of premium high fibre cereal mixes into the UK.

  Molino Alimonti Gran Fibra cereal mixes are a British first, offering the professional caterer a product line that will satisfy the increasingly health conscious diner.

  Molino Alimonti Gran Fibra cereal mixes are high in fibre, low in carbohydrates and rich in nutrients, containing a balance of whole wheat flours, bran, oats, barley and seeds with no additives or preservatives.

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• Thursday, August 26th, 2010, (7:12 am)

  NORDIC NATURALS LAUNCHES OMEGA-3 GUMMY WORMS

  Nordic Naturals is launching Nordic Omega-3 Gummy Worms – a strawberry flavoured fish oil treat for children.

  Nordic’s Omega-3 Gummy Worms contain essential fatty acids EPA and DHA which support development of the brain, eyes,
  nervous and immune systems in children.

  The soft and chewable worms are free from any fishy taste or after taste, hoping to prove popular with even the fussiest child.

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• Wednesday, August 25th, 2010, (3:05 pm)

  HERITAGE CHOCOLATES LAUNCHES £600 CHOCOLATE COIN

  Heritage Chocolates now offers easy online purchasing of their chocolate coin and medal collections, including their option to create totally personalised designs.

  All coins and medals are made with Belgian chocolate, and come in three sizes, and in various foil colours.

  For a fully personalised coin consumers will have to be willing to pay £600 for a fully sculpted, high quality relief design.

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• Wednesday, August 25th, 2010, (1:04 pm)

  NEW BERRY RATTLER FROM HEALEY’S CYDER

  Healey’s Cyder continues to broaden the cyder category with the introduction of Berry Rattler.

  The latest innovation from Healey’s Cyder will be launching in five hundred milliliter bottles available from multiples throughout Cornwall and the South West.

  A light and sparkling 4% ABV cyder, Berry Rattler is made by blending original Cornish Rattler with red berries, creating a fresh drink whilst still retaining the Rattler bite.

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• Wednesday, August 25th, 2010, (11:09 am)

  SUMMERDOWN LAUNCHES CHOCOLATE MINT THINS

  Summerdown has launched Chocolate Mint Thins, the newest addition to its range of award-winning peppermint products.

  Over the last decade, Summerdown has reintroduced traditional Black Mitcham peppermint into the UK as, back at the start of the 20th century, England was famous for producing the best mint in the world — the French still call peppermint menthe Anglaise, or English mint.

  Over the years, pressure to grow food crops and the cost of labour brought a decline in cultivation, leaving the US to become the centre for commercial production.

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• Wednesday, August 25th, 2010, (9:08 am)

  SWEET FREEDOM WINS ANOTHER GOLD GREAT TASTE AWARD

  Both versions of Sweet Freedom, the healthier all-natural alternative to sugar has, for the second year running, been awarded Gold stars in the 2010 Great Taste Awards in both the Sweet Ingredients and Diabetic categories .

  The product is made one hundred percent from fruit (just apple, grape and carob) with nothing else added.

  The Judges comments this year included “Very clean and so clever – like it, good product” and “Nice clean product – very versatile”.

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• Wednesday, August 25th, 2010, (7:06 am)

  THE BALVENIE RELEASES LIMITED EDITION ‘PEATED CASK’ 17 YEAR OLD SINGLE MALT

  David Stewart announces the launch of a new limited edition drink: The Balvenie Peated Cask aged seventeen years, an combination of single malt Scotch whiskies finished in peated casks and new American oak.

  More than forty five years of experience gives David Stewart an expertise in single malt maturation and their newest release will be available from August 2010.

  With a strong desire to experiment, David continues to look at the effects of age and wood upon The Balvenie spirit.

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• Tuesday, August 24th, 2010, (3:26 pm)

  GREGGS LAUNCHES A NEW RANGE OF SEASONAL PRODUCTS

  Greggs ‘The home of fresh baking’ is showcasing a new range of seasonal products, from sandwiches and savouries to confectionery treats, including confectionery products for Halloween and Christmas.

  Three new Christmas themed sandwiches will join Gregg’s classics, the first being the Christmas Sandwich, filled with chicken breast pieces in a seasoned mayonnaise, with sweetcure bacon, pork, sage & onion stuffing, and cranberry relish on malted brown bread

  The Wensleydale and Cranberry Sandwich is filled with wensleydale crumb in mayonnaise, with sliced red onion, cranberry relish and rocket.

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• Tuesday, August 24th, 2010, (1:15 pm)

  KRAFT FOODS BEGINS RESEARCH TO PREVENT DAIRY MILK MELTING

  Kraft Foods’ hope to make melted chocolate mess a thing of the past with its newest research project.

  The new owners of Cadbury are hunting for high-tech film packaging that will keep chocolate solid at temperatures of up to forty.

  The research into this new packaging hopes to reduce the risk of melted chocolate in warm temperatures, increasing the purchase of the chocolate bar during the summer months.

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• Tuesday, August 24th, 2010, (11:04 am)

  EAT THE CHEF SPARKS NEW PHENOMENON IN FINDING RECIPES

  The increasingly successful new foodie website Eatthechef.com helps cooks find inspiration all over the world.

  Eat the Chef’s aim is to create the world’s largest compendium of video recipes from the humble scrambled eggs on toast and the perfect roast potatoes to the likes of Mexican style eggs and lobster thermidor.

  Visitors can follow every recipe in real time, while the cook in each video explains the method, then visitors post their comments on the ones they made and liked – or perhaps offer their own version of a favourite recipe.

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• Tuesday, August 24th, 2010, (9:10 am)

  THE FOOD AND DRINK INNOVATION NETWORK HOST SUSTAINABILITY SEMINAR

  Organised and run by Sustainability Guru DR ALAN KNIGHT OBE, these meetings happen every six months and form part of a SUSTAINABILITY CLUB where The Food and Drink Innovation Network sorts out “what’s hot and what’s not” for the Food & Drink Industry.

  The seminar draws-from [and feeds-back to] the major food & drink players and Alan networks with the club members through Sustainability Bulletins and a special-access website.

  The event will take place at the Staverton Park Conference Centre,Daventry, Northants on Thursday 25th November.

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• Tuesday, August 24th, 2010, (7:37 am)

  TESCO OPENS FIRST DRIVE-THRU SERVICE

  Tesco is due to open its first ever “drive-thru” service supermarket.

  Customers to the supermarket will be able to place orders online and pick up their order in stores at an allotted time at a drive thu station.

  The trial for the new service will launch at Tesco’s Baldock Extra store in Hertfordshire and if it proves to be a success Tesco plans to incorporate the scheme into its stores across the country.

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• Monday, August 23rd, 2010, (3:17 pm)

  TOASTABLE MEAT SNACK LAUNCHES IN THE UK

  Being called the ‘meaty pop tart’, Tillman’s is to launch in the UK this autumn with a new toastable product.

  Its debut UK product will be Toast Me! the world’s first ‘toastable’ meat snack, which will appear on shelves this October following success in the German market.

  Toast Me! is a straight-from-the-freezer toastable snack, with a range of different fillings available in a crumbed, toast-shaped casing.

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• Monday, August 23rd, 2010, (1:08 pm)

  GRESSINGHAM FOODS ANNOUNCES CHRISTMAS GOOSE PLANS

  Speciality poultry company Gressingham Foods is getting ready for a busy Christmas trading period with its range of rich, succulent geese.

  Marketed under the Suffolk-based company’s own Gressingham Foods brand, the Gressingham Goose will be available for customer pre-order from Sainsbury’s 11 October.

  The Goose will be in-store for the less organized on the 20 December.

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• Monday, August 23rd, 2010, (11:07 am)

  ANNABEL KARMEL EXTENDS ITS EAT FUSSY RANGE

  Annabel Karmel has added two new meals to her branded chilled ready meal range for children, Eat Fussy.

  The two new meals, Veggie pasta bake with butternut squash and Fish bake with potato and butternut squash have been tested by toddlers and developed in response to customer feedback.

  The recipes are devised by Annabel with children’s eating habits at the forefront of her mind. For example, butternut squash, carrot, courgette and mushrooms are blended into the tomato sauce as it notoriously difficult to get children to eat their vegetables.

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• Monday, August 23rd, 2010, (9:03 am)

  BROWN BROTHERS LAUNCHES NEW CIENNA ROSSO SPARKLING WINE

  Brown Brothers, the Australian family winery, has launched Cienna Rosso, the first sparkling wine to be produced using the red grape Cienna, in Makro stores nationwide.

  This new sparkling wine has been launched in a bid to capitalise on the huge success that followed the release of the frizzante Cienna, a varietal exclusive to Brown Brothers that has proven to be one of the company’s most popular wines in the UK.

  This new style hopes to allow Brown Brothers to carve out a niche category in the UK, by targeting consumers that already have an affinity with fruity styles of sparkling wine.

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• Monday, August 23rd, 2010, (7:12 am)

  NATIONAL CUPCAKE WEEK ANNOUNCES RECIPE WINNER

  British Baker announces restaurant chef David Bennett from Leeds the winner of 2010 National Cupcake Week contest.

  David overcame stiff competition from over sixty professional bakers in the National Cupcake-off to take the title in the run up to National Cupcake Week.

  The Cupcake Week takes place next month on 13-19th September 2010.

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• Friday, August 20th, 2010, (3:13 pm)

  CATHEDRAL CITY LAUNCHES TRIAL SIZE PACKS

  Cathedral City cheese is introducing new Trial Size eighty gram packs from September 2010.

  The Cheddar brand is also launching a version of the successful Vintage 20 and a three hundred and fifty gram pack which will be available in Tesco from 8th August.

  Dairy Crest is also changing its existing four hundred gram Extra Mature and Mature Lighter packs to three hundred and fifty gram pack sizes from 4th August.

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• Friday, August 20th, 2010, (1:00 pm)

  BRITISH CONSUMERS FAVOUR LUXURY BISCUITS OVER TRADITIONAL FAVOURITES

  The famous British Brew has forever been a significant part of Britain’s culture, and as many faithful tea drinkers – or coffee for that matter – will admit, a cuppa’ is not complete without a biscuit to dunk into it.

  Packet biscuits such as digestives and rich tea, have long been associated with the tea & biscuit tradition.

  Recent reports have however, indicated a shift in consumer biscuit purchasing patterns, moving away from these well-known favourites and towards more adventurous biscuits now being offered on supermarket shelves.

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• Friday, August 20th, 2010, (11:13 am)

  GINSTERS LAUNCHES CHICKEN BALTI PASTY

  The UK’s leading savoury pastry brand, Ginsters, continues its drive for innovation in the pasties sector with a new spicy addition to its rolling special edition pasty SKU.

  From mid-August, shoppers can purchase the new Chicken Balti Pasty made with fresh British chicken marinated in a spicy balti sauce, served with potato, onion and peppers and wrapped in a puff pastry.

  The Chicken Balti Pasty will replace the popular Ham, Leek and Cheese variant.

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• Friday, August 20th, 2010, (9:09 am)

  TABASCO LAUNCHES NEW PIZZA RANGE

  Tabasco Pepper Sauce is expanding its range with its latest addition, Tabasco Pizzas.

  Hoping to Capitalise on the UK’s love for spicy food, this new pizza range hopes to bring a new dimension to chilled pizza with a unique Tabasco flavour.

  The range is now exclusively available to buy at Tesco stores.

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• Friday, August 20th, 2010, (7:08 am)

  JOHN WEST ADDS FOUR NEW PRODUCTS TO ITS TUNA RANGE

  Canned fish brand John West is adding four new products to its No Drain Less Mess Tuna range, which is currently worth over £21m.

  August sees the launch of No Drain Less Mess Tuna Chunks in a little sunflower oil or a little brine, both in a standard one hundred and twenty gram can.

  The new chunks format hopes to offer consumers a more mainstream, everyday usage occasion for No Drain tuna, while complementing the existing No Drain Tuna Steaks range.

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• Thursday, August 19th, 2010, (3:17 pm)

  THE FAMOUS GROUSE LAUNCHES PRE-MIXED CAN

  The Famous Grouse is launching the brand’s first pre-mixed can, with 6% alcohol by volume product containing one measure of the Scotch combined with cola in a new 250ml  format.

  The pre-mixed can market has seen sharp growth of forty seven percent and now represents a quarter of the ready-to-drink market.

  The Famous Grouse & Cola can hopes to provide an introduction to the wider blended Scotch category for this growing consumer base.

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• Thursday, August 19th, 2010, (1:01 pm)

  LOLA’S CUPCAKES LAUNCHES IN TOPSHOP

  Cupcake specialists Lola’s Kitchen are launching an exclusive Cupcake Counter in Topshop, Oxford Circus – treating customers to a mix of fashion and cupcakes.

  Lola’s Kitchen is a boutique bakery dedicated to hand-crafting the luxury and chic cupcakes in London.

  Situated on Topshop’s Ground Floor, the new Lola’s Cupcake Counter offers a selection of freshly baked Regular-sized and Tiny cupcakes, with an array of Lola’s signature flavours, including red velvet, rocky road, peanut butter, carrot, and banana.

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• Thursday, August 19th, 2010, (11:04 am)

  THE FOOD AND DRINK INNOVATION NETWORK’S OPEN INNOVATION SUMMIT RETURNS

  

  Following the huge success of the Open Innovation seminar last year, the Food and Drink Innovation Network are discussing that hot topic again with their Open Innovation Summit, coming up on Thursday 21st October.

  Once again it will be chaired by Paul Isherwood who is Director Of Innovation, External Networks & Partnerships at GSK.

  If Open Innovation is new on your radar, then this summit is unmissable.

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• Thursday, August 19th, 2010, (9:06 am)

  R&R ICE CREAM LAUNCHES NEW NESTLÈ POTZ

  R&R Ice Cream is launching a new range of products this September illustrating “genuine innovation” in the ice-cream category.

  The Nestlé Potz range will see four of Nestlé’s favourite confectionary brands launching into smaller-serve ice-cream tubs in a bid to provide consumers with affordable, premium frozen treats for the at home market.

  The Nestlé Potz range will include four variations of branded 220ml tubs: Aero, Smarties, Rolo and Toffee Crisp.

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• Thursday, August 19th, 2010, (7:08 am)

  NEW TUACA VANILLA LIQUEUR BEGINS SAMPLING CAMPAIGN TOUR

  The premium vanilla liqueur with citrus essences has just started its nationwide tour to encourage UK consumers to try a taste of Tuaca.

  Beginning in Brighton, the UK home of Tuaca, the sampling team, known as the ‘Tuaca Riders’ are travelling across the UK in a Tuaca van, which will visit nineteen towns in the next 8 weeks.

  Served from bespoke Tuaca branded miniature ‘surfboard’ trays, the crew will offer consumers a chilled shot of Tuaca, as well as Tuaca branded flip flops, and take-home cards.

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• Wednesday, August 18th, 2010, (3:13 pm)

  DIVINE ANNOUNCES ITS SCHEDULE FOR CHOCOLATE WEEK

  Farmer-owned chocolate company Divine Chocolate has been a sponsor of Chocolate Week since it was created and is once again delighted to be co-sponsoring this nationwide celebration of chocolate.

  Divine has teamed up top chefs, hotels and leading restaurants to offer exclusive new recipes and uniquely Divine-themed chocolate events across the country.

  Chocolate Week, the week-long celebration of fine chocolate held each year in October, is now in its seventh year and hopes to be bigger & better than ever.

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• Wednesday, August 18th, 2010, (1:15 pm)

  STEWED! ANNOUNCES NEW ADDITION TO ITS WINTER RANGE

  Robert Smith, a self-confessed ‘non-cook’ from Kent, has won the nationwide stewed! / NatMags competition with ‘Bob’s Beery Stew.’

  The recipe is a twist on a Beef and Ale stew, which will join the stewed! range this coming winter.

  Bob is particularly thrilled that his recipe will use gluten-free beer – in keeping with the stewed! range – as the 10 year old son for whom he created the stew is autistic, and has consequently been advised to follow a gluten-free diet.

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• Wednesday, August 18th, 2010, (11:06 am)

  ASDA REDUCES PRICE OF BANANAS TO ALL TIME LOW

  Asda has lowered the price of bananas to an eight-month low.

  Loose bananas now cost sixty seven pence per kg which is thirty one percent less than a fortnight ago.

  Asda instigated a round of price cuts last month when it announced it was permanently lowering prices on “core essentials’ including bread and milk.

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