Archives for October 31, 2002

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So many Halloween products, it's scary!

Halloween has become a Europe-wide phenomenon in recent years, moving away from the English-speaking islands in the North to the rest of the Continent, and adding a dash of US-style marketing for good measure. And food producers across Europe have...

Thorntons gears up for Christmas

Thorntons, the UK chocolate maker and retailer, has continued to post good like-for-like sales growth in the first four months of the financial year, but Christmas will be the key test of its business plan.