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Article: Make room for meat snacks: Topping sales growth in the salty snack sector, meat snacks might just be retailers' new best friend. (Special Report).
- Article from:
- Professional Candy Buyer
- Article date:
- November 1, 2001
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MEAT SNACK SALES and distribution show no signs of slowing, suppliers tell PROFESSIONAL CANDY BUYER, and sales data from Information Resources, Inc. (IRI) confirms this. In drug stores alone, meat snack dollar sales jumped 69.9 percent during the 52-week period ended August 12, 2001. The category as a whole grew 30.5 percent in sales for the same period.
Where consumers used to have to search grocery store aisles to find their favorite meat snack, stores now have dedicated sections, inline sets and endcaps. It's no wonder, say suppliers; after all, meat snacks are now Americas fastest growing salty snack food, according to IRI. For the 52-week period ended ...