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Cadbury brand. What’s in it for the Kraft Foods brand? (Updated)

Posted Wednesday 20, January 2010 by: JJG

To all intents and purposes, unless there is a last minute change by January 25th, it appears that global brand giant, Kraft Foods has succeeded in a £11.9bn bid to buy one the UK’s best loved brands, Cadbury.

Kraft increased its bid from an initial offer of 771p a share back in September 2009 to 840p plus a dividend (the equivalent of 8581/2 p, including the fee).

If and once the deal goes ahead, it will lead to the creation of the world’s biggest confectionary group with sales of nearly £37bn.

Kraft said it would own 40 confectionary brands with sales in excess of $100m.

From a regional branding perception stance, in the short term at least, such a deal could spell trouble ahead for the Bourneville brand.

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When beans are just too much of a mouthful

Posted Sunday 13, July 2008 by: JJG

How stupid do brands think people are? Discussing Heinz’s decision last week to drop the word ‘baked’ which has graced its tins of iconic beans since 1886, John Alderman, marketing manager for the company said: “Heinz Beanz have been powering the nation for over a hundred years and to say thank you to our loyal fans, we have given this iconic product a 21st century makeover”.

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Heinz pulls out of gay sex before it gets in too deep.

Posted Thursday 26, June 2008 by: JJG

Heinz, the perennial family brand favourite, has withdrawn its television commercial for mayonnaise because it believes it offends family values. The thirty-second commercial, which was due to run over five weeks, features a man in a typical middle-class family kitchen setting preparing sandwiches for a schoolboy and girl.  The man, dressed as a chef, sounds [...]

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Pure marketing goodness on tap

Posted Sunday 29, July 2007 by: JJG

Despite labels depicting setting suns peaking from behind clean-lined mountaintops, and a slogan reading: “pure water, perfect taste”. PepsiCo in USA has admitted that the water in its Aquafina bottles in fact comes directly from the same source as tap water.The division, part of the world’s second biggest beverage company, has been labelling their bottled [...]

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A bitter sweet taste for Cadbury’s

Posted Monday 16, July 2007 by: JJG

The British public has long enjoyed a reputation for forgiving  its treasured national brands. Yet how much will they continue to absolve what has long been held as the UK’s best loved chocolate maker, whose heritage traces to the Quakers – the founders of what we now know as Social Corporate Responsibly?Whatever the outcome of [...]

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Best of British PC in a bag

Posted Tuesday 3, July 2007 by: JJG

It’s definitely the season to be PC and embrace green values. Just about everyone from politicians to grocers are at it. PepsiCo’s Walkers crisps are jumping on the bandwagon; being vigilant to keep their carbon footprint to the minimum by not driving the old wagon too far from home. Packets of crisps carrying the Carbon [...]

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Why Orange Coca-Cola is making retailers see red

Posted Wednesday 20, June 2007 by: JJG

This summer, Coca Cola is hoping consumers will turn Orange. As part of its ‘2007 – Coke Side of Summer’ campaign, Coca Cola Orange (available in 330ml cans and 500ml glass bottles) is hitting the shelves, supported by a £2.5 million media campaign throughout July including product sampling, bespoke packaging, point of sale and outdoor [...]

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Milburn’s U-turn to turn around the fortunes of Pepsi

Posted Wednesday 30, May 2007 by: JJG

In what some may see as a cynical bid to save their brand from lower than expected sales, PepsiCo has appointed former health secretary Alan Milburn to their advisory board. Mr. Milburn is renown for saying the worst health problem facing the world is not the Aids epidemic but chronic illness caused by processed food [...]

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No alcohol please – were already chocoholics

Posted Wednesday 28, March 2007 by: JJG

London 26 March 2006: The residents of picturesque teetotal British village Bournville, founded 100 years ago by George Cadbury as an idyllic village for employees working at his chocolate factory, have won their fight to prevent Tesco from opening an Express store, metres from the village’s border.Shored up by over 1,000 signatures, local residents were [...]

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A Big Mac by appointment to the Burger King in waiting

Posted Wednesday 28, February 2007 by: JJG

This week in the UAE HRH Charles may have bitten off more than he could chew when making off-cuff remarks about McDonalds and its effects on diabetes. Some cynics have wondered if there was some kind of subtle ulterior motive behind his outburst – perhaps to do with pushing the organic produce from the farm [...]

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