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What’s brewing? In focus: Hot beverages

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Whether it’s instant or ground, teabags or loose-leaf, spiced varieties or low-fat, the market for warm beverages in the UK is definitely hotting up. In the convenience sector alone, total hot beverages are worth £294m, a figure that is up by 2.8% year on year.…

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