All The Grocer articles in 22 June 2002 – Page 5
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Bogof's week
While on my travels north last week, I was horrified to see that one of the truly great signs of the A1 had disappeared. I had grown quite fond of Morrisons' billboard by the side of the road just as you hit the Midlands in which the ...
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The Somerfield top brass were in jolly mood when one of my colleagues met up to hear the news on their interim results. The tone for the day was set early in the morning at the company's analysts meeting, when one top pundit congratulated them on...
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Coming out from the official London launch of Ocado, the Waitrose online shopping service, in Portman Square this week, I was concerned to see the Hemel Hempstead based posse had parked one of their distinctive vans in a Westminster residents' only...
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And so on to the ACS Annual Conference held, not in an exotic seaside location, but Britain's second city Birmingham. The gala dinner was held in the oddly named Council House a sumptuously decorated municipal building with chairman Mike Bowen...
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Did you know that after five minutes at -28deg C, the hairs in your nostrils start to freeze up, along with anything else that is exposed to the intense cold? I share this detail with you after visiting Christian Salvesen's new automated frozen...
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Bogof's week
Pity the Blair baby didn't arrive on Tuesday evening. That way those of us who crammed into a posh Park Lane hotel for the CBI dinner might have been spared Tony Blair's impression of Rory Bremner impersonating Tony Blair. Given the tabloid and tv...
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It's official, our esteemed leader is retiring, but not until next June and the eulogies have already started. The first one, 11 months and 21 days before the sad event, was at the Food from Scotland Excellence Awards dinner in Edinburgh. The...
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Bogof's week
While visiting Amsterdam in the interests of research Albert Heijn has some state-of-the-art concept stores there, honest I was told one of the UK's leading drinks buyers was moving on. But Chinese whispers being what they are, I thought it...
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Bogof's week
One enduring image from the foot and mouth crisis has been the sight of grocery spokespersons hurrying in and out of tv and radio studios in a bid to enlighten uninformed broadcasting hacks and manic DJs-turned-almost-serious-presenters about the...
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Bogof's week
Some coincidences are too good to miss. The National Pig Award breakfast this week, as speakers kept reminding their audience, happened to take place during British Sausage Appreciation Week. From the platform, I noticed that farm minister Nick...
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Bogof's week
I couldn't help but notice two contrasting management styles this week. At the Diageo finals chief executive Paul Walsh was honest and open but essentially not saying much about his plans to take over and carve up Seagram. At a Seagram...
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Bogof's week
Into deepest Warwickshire on Monday to join the muck and nettles brigade at the farmers' annual love-in, the Royal Show. Drove my battered mini into the meadow which doubled as a car park, and felt entirely out of place alongside the Range Rovers,...
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Funny thing, e-mail. You are sitting at your desk minding your own business when a message from the Food Standards Agency pops up (which you ignore, of course). The next, you get another message entitled Error, error, error'. Intrigued, you read...
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Bogof's week
Wild horses wouldn't persuade me to reveal the name of the well known UK supermarket executive that I spotted snoozing on a bench at Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport on Saturday evening. He was there at 5pm when I flew in and still snoring away on...
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Bogof's week
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
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
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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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
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
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...