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Chat => General => Topic started by: kevvosa on January 30, 2007, 06:55:19 pm

Title: Nestle’s sharing bags
Post by: kevvosa on January 30, 2007, 06:55:19 pm

The growing popularity of sharing bags has
prompted Nestle Rowntree to launch a range of 12 which feature its key
confectionery lines.
In the past three years sales of sharing bags
have grown 9.5% in value and now account for 14% of all confectionery
sales says Graham Walker, trade communications manager.
The range
comprises: Milk Chocolate Aero Bubbles; Quality Street; Peppermint Aero
Bubbles and Munchies Bubbles and retail at £1.49.
The Rowntree’s
products include: Pick & Mix; Fruit Pastilles; Fruit Pastilles
Blackcurrant & Strawberry and Fruit Gums. They retail at £1.19.
There
are also smaller sharing bags for Milkybar and Smarties which retail at
79p. The final products are Polo Original and Polo Sugar Free retailing
at 79p.

Title: Nestle’s sharing bags
Post by: loulou on January 30, 2007, 06:56:30 pm

I'll have some of those.

Title: Nestle’s sharing bags
Post by: goldencup on January 30, 2007, 06:57:08 pm

The Fruit Gums are great because they are the proper fruit-shaped ones which always seem to taste better than the ones in tubes.  But for sharing?  I don't think so!

Title: Nestle’s sharing bags
Post by: loulou on January 30, 2007, 06:58:13 pm

I don't know the word share.

Title: Nestle’s sharing bags
Post by: goldencup on January 30, 2007, 06:59:11 pm

Quote from: loulou

I don't know the word share.

  Nor me!

Title: Nestle’s sharing bags
Post by: goldencup on January 30, 2007, 07:00:09 pm

Looking at this thread more closely, those Pick and Mix look brilliant - lead me to them!

Title: Nestle’s sharing bags
Post by: kevvosa on January 30, 2007, 07:01:08 pm

I've seen them in Woolworths so far and Morrisons have the bags of Aero Bubbles and Quality Street. 

Title: Nestle’s sharing bags
Post by: goldencup on January 30, 2007, 07:02:25 pm

Thanks - I may just pop into Woolies tomorrow lunchtime.

Title: Nestle’s sharing bags
Post by: Forth Bridges on January 30, 2007, 09:33:17 pm

There atully look quite good!

I like GC perfere the FRUIT GUMS!

Title: Nestle’s sharing bags
Post by: loulou on January 30, 2007, 11:51:20 pm

Me too.

Title: Nestle’s sharing bags
Post by: smurfboy on January 31, 2007, 07:23:37 pm

I miss Fruit Pastilles

Title: Nestle’s sharing bags
Post by: loulou on January 31, 2007, 07:55:19 pm

Title: Nestle’s sharing bags
Post by: kevvosa on January 31, 2007, 08:48:23 pm

You mean cos of the gelatine or have they stopped being made?

Title: Nestle’s sharing bags
Post by: smurfboy on January 31, 2007, 09:12:29 pm

The gelatine. I'm pretty sure they're still being made - it's just that I can't eat them

Title: Nestle’s sharing bags
Post by: kevvosa on January 31, 2007, 11:00:28 pm

I haven't had any in ages but can't say I miss them. You can get 'vege jellies' but they're expensive, and to be honest taste crap. 

Title: Nestle’s sharing bags
Post by: Velvet Darkness on February 02, 2007, 12:21:06 am

I miss Fruit Pastilles too Smurfboy, for exactly the same reason. I know they don't HAVE to use gelatine, there are other things they could use instead but they just wont!

I eat American Hard Gums instead, most manufacturers don't use gelatine in them. They are not really a sustitute but they are good to eat when the craving for something like Fruit Pastilles gets very strong.