All articles by Adam Leyland – Page 23
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Comment & Opinion
Entrepreneurs will find a way even in harsh retail conditions
A few years ago, you couldn’t give a forecourt away, such was the perceived might of the grocery multiples. Now look at the money they’re worth
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News
Matthew Barnes promoted to top table seat at Aldi South
The promotion, effective 15 April, follows the retirement of Robert Ochsenschläger. Barnes will add responsibility for Aldi South’s fast-growing US business while also overseeing its UK and Ireland operations
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Grocer 33
Asda wins Online 33 with online shop virgin
Navigation ‘was much easier’ than our shopper had imagined
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Comment & Opinion
KFC supply chain fiasco is Heathrow's Terminal 5 all over again
Heads will surely roll… and not just chickens
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Interviews
No pain, no gain: Amazon UK boss Doug Gurr on connecting the supply chain
With his penchant for ironmans and other feats of endurance, Doug Gurr is a glutton for punishment. But it’s the consumer’s pain he’s most focused on
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Comment & Opinion
Reasons not to write off Tesco-Booker's discounter plans
Are we about to see the return of Tesco’s Fresh & Easy… in the UK?
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Comment & Opinion
The Russell Hume scandal has shown how easy it is to relabel meat
The Food Standards Agency has received government signoff to properly fund the National Food Crime Unit
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Comment & Opinion
Iceland has shown real leadership with its plastic plan
It’s been a PR masterstroke, and a far cry from the Kerry Katona years
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Comment & Opinion
Predictions for 2018: sugar, veganism & food price inflation
We’ve loads of predictions this week. But before I offer a few of my own, I have a confession
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Comment & Opinion
An extraordinary year in grocery, and Brexit is still unclear
For a supermarket boss the next week is the most exciting and most terrifying in the year
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Comment & Opinion
Sugar Levy is proving inspirational for soft drinks makers
What will be the impact of the Sugar Levy? Time will tell but I suspect it will be good news for adult soft drinks
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Comment & Opinion
Who killed Palmer & Harvey?
From the 2008 MBO, Palmer & Harvey still chose to pay out £70m in interest payments to preferential shareholders. Why?
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News
Tony Reed tells P&H colleagues and customers: 'I'm sorry'
Reed said he was ‘dreadfully sorry’ to all the stakeholders that he had been unable to save the wholesaler
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Comment & Opinion
A tax on single-use plastic could help stop pollution of the seas
There’s a new enemy in the war on waste: single-use plastic
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Analysis & Features
Dave Lewis and Charles Wilson: the exclusive and uncut interview
With the CMA provisionally clearing the Tesco-Booker merger, platinum members can read an extended version of our exclusive Q&A ahead of this Saturday’s issue of The Grocer
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Comment & Opinion
Tesco-Booker a case of if you can't beat 'em, join 'em
But not in the old sense of selling up. It’s about forming a genuine partnership (or Faustian pact)
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News
Bestway out of picture for Nisa as wholesaler dubs value crazy
Bestway is categorically not working on a counter offer for Nisa as valuation is “crazy”, says Zameer Choudrey
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Comment & Opinion
We are on the cusp of two watersheds in convenience history
Today, Nisa members will vote on their future. And on Tuesday the wisdom or folly of their decision will be tested
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Comment & Opinion
Where there's food waste, there's gold
Our Waste Not Want Not campaign has helped achieve many things but there’s still so much more to be done
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Analysis & Features
Can Roger Burnley put Asda on the front foot again?
Not only has Sean Clarke been steadying the ship; Burnley was indeed making himself more than useful