PepsiCo will begin using a number of British-sourced ingredients for its line of Walkers crisps. The move aims to emphasise Walkers' "taste and quality" and will include a brand refresh and marketing campaign, PepsiCo said. Across its ...
Work on the Welsh government's Superfast Cymru programme is under way, the Welsh business minister Edwina Hart has announced. The project looks to deliver high-speed and "world class" broadband access to 96 per cent of Welsh homes and ...
BT is wrong to claim that the UK does not have the demand to justify rolling out a fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) product nationally, according to the director general of the non-profit organisation FTTH Council Europe, Hartwig Tauber. The ...
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UK cereal manufacturer Weetabix has entered the breakfast biscuit category with the launch of an On The Go range. The product line, which launches in singles and multipacks this month is available in three variants: Milk & Cereal, Apple ...
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Companies and public sector organisations in the UK need to tread warily when it comes to performing customer data analytics. But there are opportunities for those who educate their constituencies and are clear about what customer data is ...
Tags: UK, data, customer data analytics, Deloitte, security
17 million UK consumers are expected to shop online. UK consumers are expected to visit nearly 126 million sites on Boxing Day this year, a 31% increase from 2011. According to Experian and IMRG, online retail visits will break Cyber ...
Tags: shop online, network, Internet, UK
Dido Harding, the CEO of TalkTalk, has called for regulatory intervention into the superfast broadband market in order to encourage greater competition. Speaking at the Huawei Broadband Forum, Harding said 95% of the fibre broadband ...
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CBR rounds up expert opinions after Ofcom revealed that the UK is the leading country for internet shopping and the top European country for mobile data usage. Internet shopping is now more popular in the UK than any other major country, ...
The department for culture, media and sport (DCMS) introduced its new minister to the broadband industry today with controversial rules aiming to speed up deployment of superfast connections across the UK. Maria Miller, who takes over ...
Tags: DCMS, broadband industry, superfast connections, legislative proposals
$33.8bn has already been spent online this holiday season According to figures from internet analytics firm comScore, shoppers spent a record $1bn online on four separate days. As consumers increasingly access the internet on-the-go ...
AA Russian firm has been handed a £50,000 ($79,500) fine and ordered to repay all UK customers for marketing a dubious Android app that generated a £10 premium rate £10 SMS charge simply for downloading it. According to ...
Tags: Android app, PhonePayPlus, phone service, smartphone
Helicap is a new carton closure that is a one-step twist, resealable cap, according to Tetra Pak. It is currently available in the UK with the Tetra Pak Brik Aseptic one litre Slim Carton. The Rubicon one litre juice drink range will be ...
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Nestle has relaunched its Vice Versas chocolate brand in the UK. Last on shelves in 2005, the launch, Nestle said, is in response to public demand. The Vice Versas sharing bag of bite-size white and milk chocolate pieces will be ...
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Premier Foods plc has become the latest company to launch a range of breakfast biscuits in the UK. The group is hoping to tap into the GBP33m (US$52.4m) breakfast biscuit market with the launch of Hovis Breakfast Bakes. It has ...
Tags: Premier Foods, breakfast biscuit market, Hovis Breakfast
IKEA,the largest home furnishing company and one of the largest lighting suppliers in the world,has pledged to convert its entire lighting range to LED by 2016,in a move that will have enormous implications for the LED market. The ...
Tags: IKEA, LEDs, lights&lighting