All The Grocer articles in 22 June 2002 – Page 5

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    Bogof's week

    2002-06-22T00:00:00Z

    So how are ya'll? Sorry about the clipped vernacular, but I've just jetted back across the pond after a couple of days being brainwashed at Wal-Mart's annual razzmatazz shareholders bash in sleepy downtown Bentonville in deepest Arkansas. That's...

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    Bogof's week

    2002-06-22T00:00:00Z

    Shadowing our editor, I jetted across the pond this week to New York's Fancy Food bash. As usual, he lapped up the Champers in first class while I had my usual cheap, cheap economy ticket. Still, he did slip me a stale croissant. Mind you, at least...

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    Bogof's week

    2002-06-22T00:00:00Z

    Once upon a time, long, long ago, England had a decent cricket team and it was worth spending a couple of days at Lord's for the extra special battle with the Aussies. Nowadays? Ah well... Still, that didn't stop many of grocery's greats dumping...

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    Bogof's Week

    2002-06-22T00:00:00Z

    It was reassuring to note I was not the only one to be intrigued by the Food Standards Agency's natty logo, which looks to all intents and purposes like two forks on a green plate. Some of those at this week's launch demanded FSA head Sir John...

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    Bogof's week

    2002-06-22T00:00:00Z

    Phew! I'm still catching my breath from the Grocer's Great Trolley Race at the weekend. Don't think the Imperial War Museum at Duxford knew what had hit it. Great backdrop to hold an event like that. As we raced round the track a few guys were...

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    Bogof's week

    2002-06-22T00:00:00Z

    While I've been wading knee deep in my wellies through the last week's rainy season, my colleagues have been off to slightly more pleasant climes across Europe. Over in Denmark, a colleague went to a huge banking hall in central Copenhagen that has...

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    BOGOF'S WEEK

    2002-06-22T00:00:00Z

    Although my life is one constant whirl of hectic social activity (all in the name of work, you understand) I do occasionally like to put my feet up and relax. So my thanks to those lovely people at the absurdly named PriceWaterhouseCoopers for...

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    Bogof's week

    2002-06-22T00:00:00Z

    Nice to see Mr Vandevelde and his posse of M&S directors modelling the latest in M&S's menswear at the M&S interim results presentation this week. When they stood up to reveal the shirts and ties under the smart suits, I was a little worried that...

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    Bogof's week

    2002-06-22T00:00:00Z

    You could tell BBC anchorman Michael Buerk was happy in his work at the IGD convention by the way he laid into some of the speakers. Particularly the marketers among them. And Labour spin meister Philip Gould. Buerk told the audience whenever...

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    Bogof's week

    2002-06-22T00:00:00Z

    This is the time of year when half of grocery appears to wander around in a haze as the seasonal bashes take their toll. But our vote for the whackiest and best of all the Christmas bunfights goes to the Irish Food Board (Bord Bía) who staged a...

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    Bogof's week

    2002-06-22T00:00:00Z

    I am constantly amazed at the way in which the boffins at food and drink companies come up with whizzy new gizmos that even we didn't know were necessary to make our lives easier. This year's Wimbledon tennis championships is not an obvious place...

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    Bogof's week

    2002-06-22T00:00:00Z

    One of the highlights of our trip to SIAL is always the first night bash laid on by Food from Britain. That's the occasion when nearly 200 food folk pack into the UK pavilion, gorge themselves on British delicacies and sup enough to make even the...

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    Bogof's week

    2002-06-22T00:00:00Z

    OK, so twelfth night is here, but memories of the festive bashes linger. My eardrums still ache from the pounding they received at the IGD's whacky Glitter Ball. The sound system at that Park Lane hostelry makes the phrase ghettoblaster...

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    Bogof's week

    2002-06-22T00:00:00Z

    And so to the British Retail Consortium's annual dinner. Surely this is the only event in the world where the speeches last longer than the meal itself ­ despite being served more courses than your average bacchalian orgies. Chairman Sir David...

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    Bogof's week

    2002-06-22T00:00:00Z

    I'm going to start this week with a bit of a rant ­ and why not, it's my column. Why is it that the switchboards of so many big companies (mostly American owned companies, it has to be said) are refusing to give out job titles, confirm name...

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    BOGOF'S WEEK

    2002-06-22T00:00:00Z

    Watch out Jerry Springer! The Grocer is going on telly. We're dumping our laptops in favour of microphones and even our esteemed editor has been seen trawling the Harrods counters for the right "rugged shades" of make-up. We've been on a course to...

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    Bogof's week

    2002-06-22T00:00:00Z

    Never in my life have I heard hardened hacks gasp at a press conference. "We have decided to accept neither bid," said Dame Helena Shovelton at the Lottery Commission's press conference in London on Wednesday, causing a sharp intake of breath from...

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    Bogof's week

    2002-06-22T00:00:00Z

    Back with the Rollers and Bentleys Brigade on Monday at the bash that's still Numero Uno in London's summer social calendar Chelsea Flower Show. Mind you, I took an unglamorous, but highly practical, London Transport double decker from Victoria...

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    Bogof's week

    2002-06-22T00:00:00Z

    Footie mania brought The Grocer's sparkling evening with FSA boss Sir John Krebs to a precisely timed conclusion on Monday. And the standards of the Landmark Hotel's nibbles were well and truly investigated as the delegates ­ Sir John among them ­...

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    Bogof's week

    2002-06-22T00:00:00Z

    The ripple effect from our exclusive interview with the Princess Royal about GM foods goes on and on. Even when Princess Anne, as president, hosted a lunch for the great and good at the Royal Highland Show she was given a formal reminder of the...