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On-the-go dairy drinks have taken a beating. As Brits hunkered down at home, impulse occasions staggered to a halt.
That much is evident in the figures. While take-home value sales soared by 15.5% (£81.3m) to £606.1m, impulse fell by almost £107m to £206.3m amid the cycle of lockdowns [Kantar 52 w/e 27 December 2020].
As such, big brands with a strong on-the-go presence suffered black eyes. The value of Weetabix’s breakfast drinks fell by a bruising 30.5%, a loss of £4.3m, while Mars’ drinks shed £1.7m (12.8%) on volumes down 15% [Nielsen 52 w/e 2 January 2021].
And Müller’s milkshake brand Frijj, which was already on the ropes before the pandemic, was slammed with a 28.8% loss (£9.3m) in value and 35.5% decline in volumes [Nielsen].
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A few weeks ago, Swissvale native Billy Gardell received welcome news: An early third season renewal of his CBS sitcom “Bob (Hearts) Abishola,” returning with a new episode at 8:30 p.m. Monday on KDKA-TV.
“That never happened to me on ‘Mike & Molly.’ They usually made you wait until May with the upfronts,” Gardell said by phone from Los Angeles last week. “But they’ve been so pleasantly surprised by how well (‘Bob’) has done, they gave us an early pickup. As an actor, if you know you have a job going into the summer, it makes the summer so much nicer.”
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