Jim Jams

The only one real drawback about Nutella is the amount of sugar that's in there - and there's a lot. In every 100g of the chocolatey brown stuff there's a staggering 54 g of sugar - that's 13.5 sugar cubes worth (not to mention 32g of fat). Adults are supposed to consume no more than 30g a day, according to health guidelines. But now a father of five from Essex has created a much favourite version which is much healthier than the real thing and its competitors. Kevin Bath, who gave up a job in banking, is now making a low sugar alternative with his company Jim Jams. While he says a whole jar of Nutella has 54 cubes of sugar in total, his contains 83% less of the sweet stuff. When we looked around for healthier alternatives, nothing really stood out, so we thought 'here's a gap in the market.

Jim Jams

Npower Job Cut

Energy firm Npower is to cut up to 2,500 jobs, more than a fifth of its UK workforce, with an announcement to staff expected this week. Npower, which is owned by the German energy giant RWE, employs 11,500 people in the UK and is one of the country's big six gas and electricity suppliers. The BBC understands sales and marketing roles will be the worst hit. The company, which has not made any official comment, posted a loss of £48m for the first nine months of last year. It has also lost about 200,000 UK customers.  RWE will announce Npower's full-year results on Tuesday when it is expected to detail the planned job losses. The German company, which also generates and distributes energy, has been hit by oil prices falling more than a third in the last year to around $38 a barrel.

Npower Job Cut

Mighty Marmite

Unilever is launching the Mighty Marmite on-pack promotion to give away superhero-themed egg cups in the run-up to Easter. Running from 7th March, the marketing push - to encourage shoppers to consider the savoury spread as a breakfast option will see 'Marmighty' emblazoned across the front of cars, along with information about the giveaway and how customers can redeem their free egg cup. "We're excited to be launching our superhero Marmighty egg cups and we're confident these will help us communicate how Marmite, which is rich in B vitamins, is a hearty breakfast spread that is guaranteed to give your breakfast some 'oomph' said assistant brand manager Philippa Atkinson.

Marmighty

Pizza Profits

Domino's Pizza has revealed what it describes as "excellent" results for last year, driven primarily by the growth in its digital sales. The company also says its franchisees were helped by a "record low cheese price, favourable wheat price and a fall in fuel costs". Pre-tax profits were £73.16m, up from £62.1m in 2014. E-commerce sales now account for 77.7% of all UK deliveries and 48.6% of online sales are made using its app.  Domino's says online orders in the UK rose by nearly 29% last year and app-based orders shot up by more than 41%, with 11.5 million people now having downloaded the app in total. "The thing that customers want more than anything else is convenience and that means food that's delivered to their home," chief executive David Wild told the BBC.

Pizza Profit

Major Mars Recall

Chocolate maker Mars has ordered a recall of chocolate products in 55 countries. In the UK the products affected include funsize Mars and Milky Way bars and boxes of Celebrations.  In the Netherlands Mars and Snickers bars were also affected. It comes after a customer in Germany found bits of plastic in a Snickers bar in January. The plastic was traced back to the Mars factory in the southern town of Veghel in the Netherlands. A Mars Netherlands spokesperson said: "We cannot be sure that this plastic was only in that particular Snickers. We do not want any products on the market that may not meet our quality requirements, so we decided to take them all back." The company is one of the largest privately owned businesses in the US and had global sales of $33bn last year.

Mars Recall

Gigner Nuts Coming Back

McVitie’s ginger nuts are to return to the shelves after production was halted three months ago by flooding at a factory in Carlisle. United Biscuits, the owner of the McVitie’s, Carr’s and Jacob’s brands, has told its retail clients, who include Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Morrisons and Asda, that stocks of ginger nuts would be available from mid-March. The Carlisle-based facility is the second biggest biscuit factory in Europe, supplying the UK and other countries around the world. The factory should soon be producing 7m ginger nuts a day to meet demand. About 400 staff, contractors and suppliers are now working at the factory, about half its usual workforce.

Ginger Nuts Back

Swapping Robots for Humans

The seemingly unstoppable march of robots replacing humans may have hit a snag: high-end customisable cars. Mercedes says it is replacing many of its production line robots with humans - a reversal of recent trends. That is because its S-Class sedan has a growing array of options like carbon-fibre trim and heated cupholders, which humans are better at dealing with. Head of production Markus Schaefer said: "Robots can’t deal with the degree of individualisation and the many variants that we have today. "We’re saving money and safeguarding our future by employing more people." Schaefer seeks to reduce the time taken to produce a car from 2005’s standard of 61 hours to just 30. To do so, Mercedes is shifting to what it calls “robot farming” - equipping workers with an array of smaller, lighter machines. Traditionally robots would operate behind safety fences in isolation from human workers.

Robots vs. Humans