Food & Beverage
Snacks, beverages, dairy, cooking essentials · 6 stories
Nestlé Just Merged Its Coffee and Candy Portfolios Into One Product
Nestlé owns some of Britain’s most recognisable coffee and chocolate brands. Now it is increasingly treating them as ingredients for one another. In June 2026, the company launched two new UK products: • Nescafé KitKat White Flavour Latte • Nescafé Lion Flavour Mocha
The Chip That’s Actually Made From a Pickle, Not Just Flavoured Like One: Inside DJ&A’s Pickle-Licious Cucumber Crisps
America is deep into its pickle era. Supermarket shelves now contain dill-pickle potato chips, pickle popcorn, pickle crackers, pickle dips and even pickle-flavoured drinks. Google searches for “pickle flavour” reached a US high in early 2025, while pickle popcorn searches reportedly rose sharply as brands chased demand for stronger, tangier snacks.
The Candy Designed to Look Good When You Cut It in Half: Amos MeloMochi’s Dubai Chocolate Mochi
For most of confectionery history, the outside of the product did the selling. Chocolate bars relied on moulded surfaces and branded wrappers. Gummies competed through colours and recognisable shapes. Filled sweets kept their most interesting features hidden until the consumer took a bite.
UK Assortment Boxes Market: Ferrero Rocher, Swizzels and Leonidas Compared
Ferrero Rocher, Swizzels, and Leonidas have effectively split the UK assortment box market into three separate buyer groups — premium gifting, value-driven sharing, and niche indulgence — and each is winning decisively within its own lane. The shared vulnerability across all three is what happens after purchase: packaging damage and short expiry dates cut across every brand and price tier, making this a category-wide fix rather than a single-brand problem.
Vietnam Spreads Market: Tracybee, Hoàng Yến and the Honey Authenticity Race
Vietnam's spreads market is functionally a honey market, and Tracybee, Hoàng Yến, and Viettin Mart are competing almost entirely on purity and traceable origin rather than flavor alone. The category's biggest threat is internal: diluted honey complaints are corrosive precisely because they attack the one claim this entire market depends on, making quality certification a real differentiator rather than a marketing nicety.
Singapore Ginger Beer Market: Karma Drinks Leads on Organic Spice and Versatility
Karma Drinks, through its Gingerella line, leads Singapore's ginger beer category by combining an authentic, spicy-forward flavor profile with organic and Fairtrade sourcing credentials that resonate with health-conscious urbanites and cocktail enthusiasts alike. The category's clearest weakness is consistency: inconsistent ginger intensity between batches is the top complaint, undercutting the bold-flavor reputation that otherwise drives most of the category's satisfaction.