All articles by Adam Leyland – Page 31
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Analysis and Features
Sir Terry Leahy: why I saved Tesco’s final salary defined benefit pension scheme
As we recall Sir Terry Leahy’s saving of the Tesco final salary defined benefit pension scheme, will Dave Lewis rue his decision to finally scrap it?
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Comment and Opinion
Big four management upheaval is sign of grocery power shift
It’s the January sales. And normally we would be examining the various “biggest-ever” promos…
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The Big Interview
Stuart MacFarlane Big Interview: It's Good to Talk
One year into his new role as zone president of AB InBev Europe, Stuart MacFarlane talks exclusively to The Grocer…
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Comment and Opinion
Lasting impressions from 2014 and resolutions for year ahead
So. The biggest week of the year is upon us. And how fitting that we have our biggest issue of the year…
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Analysis and Features
Ready meals: Horsegate still haunts the category
Almost two years on from the first discovery, and ready meals are still haunted by Horsegate…
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Comment and Opinion
The Tesco leopard can change spots - but can it still hunt?
There are four rules to rebates,” an ex-buyer once told me. “1. Get a rebate. 2. If you have one increase it…
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Comment and Opinion
Reasons to be cheerful this Christmas? Win Champagne!
Reasons to be cheerful this Christmas? Tell us why and you could win a case of Champagne…
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Analysis and Features
Premier is following a well-established supermarket playbook
The real surprise about Premier Foods’ demands for payment from suppliers is not that the company is doing it, but that it’s suddenly in the spotlight.
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Comment and Opinion
This is not a food porn ad. This is food poisoning on a stick
Shocking image isn’t it? Deliberately so. We all know that sex sells. Whether it’s M&S or Haagen Dazs, retailers and brand owners
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Comment and Opinion
FSA’s shock campylobacter tactics directed at the wrong target
What conclusions are shoppers meant to draw from the FSA’s naming and shaming exercise this week?…
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News
Brussels set to ruin Christmas ... we're not talking sprouts
The introduction of complex and confusing new EU regulations on labelling 12 days before Christmas could ruin the festive …
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Analysis and Features
New Britain Palm Oil outperforms Stock Market after knockout bid
It’s been a rollercoaster ride for New Britain Palm Oil, but it’s leaving the FTSE on a high
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Comment and Opinion
The ultimate lightbulb moment for grocery: Switch the Lights
For years we’ve been writing about refrigeration: should you put doors on the chillers and freezers?…
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Analysis and Features
PureCircle’s sweet success as share price outperforms market
Price of PureCircle’s shares proves stevia’s status as a bona fide sugar substitute
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Analysis and Features
Greggs pasty tax victory only half the story of resurgence
Greggs is one of the British high street’s best-loved brands, a point that was reinforced when it took on Chancellor George Osborne…
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Analysis and Features
Greencore's growth: it's all about sandwiches
In the second in our series of articles on top performing grocery stocks in 2014, Greencore has proved that Horsegate is a distant memory
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Analysis and Features
Crawshaws revealed as best performing grocery stock of 2014
It’s not all doom and gloom. In a series of articles this week, we present grocery plc’s fastest growing stocks in 2014.
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Comment and Opinion
Ifs and buts aside, Bolland is finally delivering on fashion
Dressed in black suit, white shirt and black tie, Bolland said M&S was entering a phase of ‘delivery’
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Analysis and Features
Turkish delight as Yildiz digests McVitie's owner UB
If the planets had aligned differently, the United Biscuits management team would now be leading perhaps…