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Yahoo
4 hours ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Cadbury shrinks size of Freddo chocolates while prices remain the same
Cadbury has shrunk the size of its Dairy Milk Freddo multipacks, while keeping the price the same. The confectionery company is responsible for a range of popular chocolates including Boost, Crunchie, Creme Eggs and the classic Dairy Milk. However, arguably one of the most popular Cadbury chocolates is its Dairy Milk Freddos. The price of Freddos has been a major talking point over the years. The popular chocolate used to be 10p, but recently it has risen in price and is now on sale in supermarkets for up to 40p (Sainsbury's). Now, Freddo multipacks have been hit by shrinkflation. Cadbury has shrunk the size of its Freddo (5x18g) and Caramel Freddo (5x19.5g) multipacks by 20%, according to The Grocer. These multipacks disappeared from Tesco stores in May and have recently been replaced by Freddo 4x18g and Freddo Caramel 4x19.5g multipacks. Despite the change in size, the price has remained the same at £1.40. The original 5-packs of Freddo chocolates are still available in some supermarkets, including Morrisons. (Image: Morrisons) Both the old and new versions of the Freddo multipacks are available at Morrisons (at the time of writing), on sale for £1.40. While Sainsbury's still has the original multipacks of five available, both for £1.40. A spokesman for Cadbury owner Mondelez International, speaking to The Grocer, confirmed the change to Freddo multipacks was made due to "significantly higher input costs". RECOMMENDED READING: Cadbury to release new chocolate bar shoppers say is like discontinued favourite 'Amazingly good' new Kinder chocolate bar spotted in meal deal section at Tesco Tesco joins Sainsbury's in making major change to self-service checkouts Sainsbury's shoppers 'won't buy anything' as major change rolled out in-store The spokesperson explained ingredients like cocoa and dairy cost "far more" than they have done in the past and energy and transport prices "remain high". They continued: "This means that our products continue to be much more expensive to make and while we have absorbed these costs where possible, we still face considerable challenges. 'As a result of this difficult environment, we have had to make the decision to slightly reduce the weight of our Cadbury Dairy Milk Freddo multipacks so that we can continue to provide consumers with the brands they love, without compromising on the great taste and quality they expect."
CTV News
17 hours ago
- Business
- CTV News
Sask. couple spends winter months farming chocolate ingredients in South America
WATCH: A Saskatchewan couple spend the winter months in South America farming chocolate ingredients. Mick Favel has the story.
The Sun
a day ago
- Business
- The Sun
Tesco shoppers go wild for never-before-seen Kinder bar on shelves as fans say they are ‘amazingly good'
TESCO shoppers have gone wild for a never-before-seen Kinder bar after it appeared on shelves. The new bar is made of milk and cocoa cream layered with a crispy cereal shell. 1 And the sought-after treat was posted to the popular New F oods UK Facebook group when it was spotted in Tesco. One savvy shopper spotted the Kinder bar and let other chocolate-lovers know about the product. The post quickly received likes and comments from sweet fans eager to get their hands on the new flavour. Viewers were quick to weigh in with their opinions in the comment section. One wrote: "These are amazingly good." While another said: "Need these." Others quickly tagged their friends and family to let them know about the tasty new bar. The sweet treat is described as a "deliciously light yet indulgent snack" combining Kinder's signature creamy milk and cocoa layers with a crunchy cereal coating. Each bar comes individually wrapped so it is great for taking it on-the-go. Save with secret codes It's a fan favourite as it offers the perfect texture contrast in every bite. Tesco regularly gives shoppers a chance to pick up discounted food through yellow label stickers. These are typically food items that are due to expire and then marked down in price at the end of the day. Recently, the grocery giant has begun giving away some of these discounted products for free at selected stores. It began introducing the freebies across selected Express stores as part of a trial earlier this month. Food marked "CS" is given away for nothing from 9:30pm onwards. Therefore, the free products will only be made available to shoppers who visit these branches after this time. The supermarket giant said it will continue giving some of the end-of-life products to charity as it currently does. Staff will also get priority for the free products reduced earlier in the day. However, any food leftover at this point will be free for shoppers to take home and enjoy. How to save money on your food shop Consumer reporter Sam Walker reveals how you can save hundreds of pounds a year: Odd boxes - plenty of retailers offer slightly misshapen fruit and veg or surplus food at a discounted price. Lidl sells five kilos of fruit and veg for just £1.50 through its Waste Not scheme while Aldi shoppers can get Too Good to Go bags which contain £10 worth of all kinds of products for £3.30. Sainsbury's also sells £2 "Taste Me, Don't Waste Me" fruit and veg boxes to help shoppers reduced food waste and save cash. Food waste apps - food waste apps work by helping shops, cafes, restaurants and other businesses shift stock that is due to go out of date and passing it on to members of the public. Some of the most notable ones include Too Good to Go and Olio. Too Good to Go's app is free to sign up to and is used by millions of people across the UK, letting users buy food at a discount. Olio works similarly, except users can collect both food and other household items for free from neighbours and businesses. Yellow sticker bargains - yellow sticker bargains, sometimes orange and red in certain supermarkets, are a great way of getting food on the cheap. But what time to head out to get the best deals varies depending on the retailer. You can see the best times for each supermarket here. Super cheap bargains - sign up to bargain hunter Facebook groups like Extreme Couponing and Bargains UK where shoppers regularly post hauls they've found on the cheap, including food finds. "Downshift" - you will almost always save money going for a supermarket's own-brand economy lines rather than premium brands. The move to lower-tier ranges, also known as "downshifting" and hailed by consumer expert Martin Lewis, could save you hundreds of pounds a year on your food shop. Tesco is not the only retailer to give away discounted food through yellow sticker bargains. Rather than red or yellow, Lidl puts orange stickers on its reduced products, so make sure you don't miss any in your closest store. One former worker for the supermarket revealed when shoppers can find the stickers and get up to 60% off. And Sainsbury's said when staff add yellow stickers to products varies from store to store. As for Aldi, the chain uses red stickers to mark down items in its shops.
Irish Times
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Irish Times
Black Forest gateau
Serves : 6 Course : Dessert Cooking Time : 30 mins Prep Time : 30 mins Ingredients 6 large eggs, separated 160g caster sugar 60g cocoa powder 30g self raising flour 2tbs kirsch liqueur For the filling and topping: 3tbs icing sugar, sifted 1tbs vanilla paste 250g mascarpone 1 punnet of fresh cherries, stones removed 3tbs cherry jam 50g 70% chocolate Preheat the oven to 190 degrees and line a 450g loaf tin with baking parchment. Place the egg whites in a mixer bowl and whisk at a high speed until the eggs form soft peaks. Add half the sugar and whisk until the meringue is glossy and forms stiff peaks. Put to one side. Place the egg yolks in a mixing bowl with the remaining half of the sugar and whisk at full speed until the mix has doubled in size and turned pale; this takes about three minutes. Add the cocoa powder, flour and kirsch to the egg yolk mix and fold together until it is combined. Fold the meringue into the egg yolk mix in three stages, keeping in as much air as possible. Once combined, pour this into the lined loaf tin and tap to allow the mixture to fill all the corners. Place the tin in the oven and cook for 20-25 minutes until a skewer inserted into the centre comes away clean. The mix will soufflé up slightly but will level out as it cools. Turn it out upside down after about 10 minutes on a flat surface and remove the parchment, which gives a rectangular shape. For the filling, add the icing sugar and vanilla to the mascarpone and mix with a spoon until smooth. Slice the pitted cherries in half and set aside. To assemble the gateau, cut the cake in three through the middle. Spread a layer of cherry jam, a thin layer of the mascarpone filling and some halved cherries on two of the layers and sit one on top of the other. Place the remaining layer of cake on top, spread the remaining mascarpone on it, then finely grate the chocolate to cover the top before slicing and serving.
Times
2 days ago
- Business
- Times
Cadbury hires 50 tasters to test chocolate for a living
If you eat chocolate you probably have a repertoire of firm favourites that you return to, but Cadbury still hopes to tempt you into trying something new. Its owner Mondelez International has invested nearly £3.5 million on a new tasting centre in Bournville as it doubles down on the UK as its global research hub for chocolate. Chocolate lovers will regularly join 50 newly-trained tasters at the consumer tasting facility, which opens in June inside an existing building, as the company explores new aromas, textures and flavours — or what it calls 'attributes'. There were thousands of applicants for the roles which will play a key part in product development for much-loved brands including Cadbury, Milka and Toblerone. According to Louise Stigant, the UK managing director, a typical session will see a panel of 12 chocolate tasters sample products and discuss their attributes, with the feedback used to refine the product's development. But this is not an all-day chocolate binge: people can only try things out for a couple of hours before their taste buds become overwhelmed. Stigant said: 'I think it should give us an advantage so that we understand our consumers better. The consumer research piece should then help us to make sure that we're both making quality products consistently and getting clearer about innovation.' Every chocolate product that Mondelez makes and sells in over 150 countries around the world begins its development in the UK. Since 2018 Mondelez has invested £16 million in its research and development facilities here and now has more than750 research personnel including food scientists, nutritionists and engineers. Its latest product launch is a collaboration with Lotus Bakeries' Biscoff. The resulting Cadbury Dairy Milk Biscoffhas sold several million pounds worth of units in its first month. Stigant said: 'The textural piece is what people seem to be really intrigued by: the softness, the chocolate and the creaminess, and then there's a crunch with Biscoff. It's that newness that excites people.' She added: 'Having the R&D centre alongside manufacturing has meant that we've been able to move with pace from the concept idea last June through to actually having it on the shelves in the last few weeks.' Cadbury has never stood still. The brand traces its roots back to 1824 when John Cadbury opened a grocer's shop in Bull Street, Birmingham. Among the groceries, he sold cocoa and drinking chocolate. In 1879 John's son George and brother Richard moved their business from Birmingham's city centre to a site four miles away, naming it Bournville after the nearby stream, the Bourn. The move was driven by both the need to expand their business and a desire to provide better living conditions for their employees. Dairy Milk was launched in 1905 and by 1914 had become the company's best-selling product. Over the years since then the chocolate maker has created plenty of other famous products including Roses, Creme Eggs and Heroes. A new era dawned in 2010 when the US consumer goods giant Kraft Foods bought Cadbury for £11.5 billion after a hostile takeover battle that triggered widespread opposition over fears the British firm would lose some of its lustre. Kraft subsequently spun off its global snacks business, including Cadbury, as Mondelez International. Yet over the past ten years Mondelez has invested nearly £300 million in its UK manufacturing footprint, increasing production efficiency by 30 per cent and expanding overall capacity. It has eight sites across the UK, employing over 4,000 people directly and 10,000 indirectly. This includes factories in Bournville and Sheffield, a cocoa bean processing plant in Chirk, north Wales, and a milk processing facility in Marlbrook, Worcestershire. Stigant said the aim is to 'compete in the UK from a manufacturing point of view. We're the number one brand in the UK and have been for quite a period of time, and I think that's an important indicator that the brand is being loved and treated in the way it should be'. FENNELL PHOTOGRAPHY The appetite for Cadbury's products shows no sign of waning despite the popularity of anti-obesity jabs, according to Stigant, who pointed out that the overall snacking category is still growing. It is not all plain sailing, however, given the high price of cocoa and the rise in other input costs. 'We have absorbed some of those and then we've had no alternative but to pass on some of those costs to consumers through either very carefully thought-through pricing or by reducing the size of products.' Products that do not take off are discontinued. Such was the fate of the low-sugar version of Dairy Milk, dropped in 2023 despite a three-year development by 20 scientists and £2 million marketing spend. Next to be put to the consumer test is temperature-activated packaging. Available from June on some limited edition Dairy Milk bars, the packaging features four summer-themed designs: deck chairs, umbrellas, kites and inflatables. Using so-called thermochromic technology, the wrapper changes to reveal a deep blue colouring when each bar is chilled. At Christmas there are likely to be more new treats from the 201-year old firm but they are being kept strictly under wraps for now.
