Archives for October 31, 2002

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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.

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...