All articles by Adam Leyland
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Comment & OpinionEditor’s picks: top 150 suppliers, the budget and packaging taxes
This week’s issue marked the launch of the Top 150 UK Food & Drink Supplier Rankings Report for 2025, which The Grocer releases annually in association with OC&C Strategy Consultants
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Comment & OpinionThe Budget is a disaster and it hasn’t even happened yet
With days to go until the hopelessly late Budget, the food and drink industry will be holding its breath
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Comment & OpinionEditor’s picks: Dave Lewis takes Diageo and New Product & Packaging Awards
The big news was the appointment of Sir Dave Lewis as the new CEO of Diageo. Lewis has nothing to prove after an outstanding career but it’s fascinating to consider why he’s chosen, at the age of 60, to take on another CEO role
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Comment & OpinionWhat a trip soft drinks brand Trip is on, tapping the mindfulness zeitgeist
Trip is reaping the reward through insight, slick marketing and supply chain execution and strong celebrity backing
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Comment & OpinionEditor’s picks: Whoosh, AI, bacon and the doomed SOS
Tesco’s upgraded rapid grocery delivery service, the continued use of nitrites in processed meats, inside the collapse of SOS Wholesale and much more
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Comment & OpinionWhere now for Mondelez as Cadbury Fruitier & Nuttier is axed?
It’s super-hard leveraging the Cadbury Dairy Milk brand if the chocolate constitutes a lot less than the ‘glass and a half’ in the CDM bar
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Comment & OpinionEditor’s picks: a world foods special and the Waitrose social media storm
Waitrose’s PR nightmare, inside Roberts Bakery’s administration, Unilever spin-off delay and much more
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Comment & OpinionNot all convenience stores are innocent victims of retail crime
A police crackdown on organised crime has alarmingly identified that more than 100 convenience stores have been buying items stolen from supermarkets and reselling them at discounted prices
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Comment & OpinionEditor’s picks: the fourth tier frontier and Roberts Bakery’s saviour
It’s also cheering to be able to report that Roberts Bakery has been saved
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Comment & OpinionCo-op faces many questions over its commercial and logistics restructure
Offering suppliers a single point of contact in which it can simultaneously close deals with 8,000 outlets across multiple routes to market is very attractive, but the plans have got off to a shaky start
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NewsCo-op commercial restructure in chaos as Bell and Balmforth exit
Chief commercial officer Sinead Bell was appointed last month to lead the Co-op’s newly established independent buying group for all food and goods for resale
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Comment & OpinionEditor’s picks: Joe Wicks, the TikTok table and Roberts Bakery
The Joe Wicks mockumentary on Monday caused a huge brouhaha, while the next day brought news of Roberts Bakery going into administration
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Comment & Opinion‘Erratic’ buyers are on increasingly thin ice over forecasting
Failure to forecast accurately and fairly is a serious issue if taken to the extreme
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Comment & OpinionEditor’s picks: The best of Green Week
We’ve pulled together the diverse components of our first-ever Green Week into a compelling read
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Comment & OpinionEditor’s picks: Amazon Fresh, Co-op cyberattack and the Dairymen
Our coverage of the latest delay to the EU Deforestation Regulation is punchy and insightful
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Analysis & FeaturesCo-op cyberattack hurt but its response tells a better story
The Co-op is also back on the front foot. While store openings slowed, 30 will come onstream in the second half
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Comment & OpinionEditor’s picks: Sainsbury’s whirlwind romance, Deliveroo, inflation and cooking shows
It’s been another busy week on The Grocer, with analysis on the fallout of the Sainsbury’s/JD.com dalliance, a deep dive into TV cooking shows, a look at Will Shu’s Deliveroo success story and more
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Comment & OpinionUrban Legend’s demise: self-fulfilling prophecy or cautionary tale?
What went wrong for Urban Legend? The name? The proposition? The science?
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Comment & OpinionWinning M&S distribution deal from Booker is a real feather in Blakemore’s cap
For many years, Blakemore has been one of the best and most efficient distribution businesses in the UK
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Comment & OpinionFarmers say GCA not fit for purpose, but how would they know?
Farmers and processors have not benefited from the Adjudicator’s oversight