All articles by Adam Leyland – Page 50
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NewsEditor's Comment: Nisa-Today’s love triangle with Costcutter and Bibby will end in a messy divorce
Explosive rows signal what's likely to be a very acrimonious end of the affair
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How radical do we need to be?
Wine in cans? Boxless breakfast cereals? Milk cartons made of chalk? Corn-based plastic? We look at the latest innovations - and what's on the drawing board. By Adam Leyland, Alex Black and Joanne Grew
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Editor's Comment: However fast the industry acts, there's always more red tape ahead
Brace, brace! Duck for cover! If you thought the furore over traffic lights and sat fats was bad, it will look like the proverbial picnic if the latest intimations on the environment come to pass.
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Duchy collaboration set to take Waitrose to three-tier system
Waitrose will use a new exclusive and expanded Duchy Originals range to balance its books, countering a potential margin loss through its Essential Waitrose range, according to sources close to retailer.
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NewsThe glass and a half is full, says Cadbury's Trevor Bond
In an exclusive interview with The Grocer, Cadbury's Trevor Bond tells Adam Leyland that a takeover - by Kraft or any other player - is far from inevitable
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Editor's Comment: The new Abnormally Special range at Waitrose will top the mults' use of superlatives
A knighthood surely beckons for Mark Price if the likeable Waitrose boss has got his sums right.
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Editor's Comment: New Nescafé ad shows the defiance of the leading fmcg brands
Nescafé's new £43m ad campaign, Coffee at its Brightest, sounds at first like an inflation-adjusted update to the absurdist 1985 film Brewster's Millions.
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Wake-up call for Nescafé
Paul Grimwood is pumping £43m into reviving the instant coffee as he re-energises Nestlé UK, says Adam Leyland
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Comment & Opinion
Editor's Comment: In a recession it takes guts to open a c-store, let alone a supermarket chain
When I first heard that a supermarket chain called Asco was being launched, I assumed it was a joke. This is the silly season, after all.
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Comment & Opinion
Editor's Comment: Change of legal climate signals prosecution o’clock
It's almost a year since the supermarkets went to war with the brands on their very shelves, with TV ads and new web features provocatively urging consumers to choose own-label over bestselling brands.
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Editor's Comment: Benn should have praised the industry for bogofs reduction
If the prospect of a minister running the country by Blackberry seems frightening, the strangely unthere-thereness of Environment Minister Hilary Benn's appearance this week is surely worse.
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Editor's Comment: For the industry's sake, ask your MP to back Early Day Motion 1885
Between moat cleaning services, dodgy mortgage claims and duck house constructions, the MPs' expenses scandal has created the sense that government is utterly unaccountable.
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"For the sake of the grocery industry - and democracy for that matter - please ask your local MP to sign up in support of Early Day Motion 1885"
Between moat cleaning services, dodgy mortgage claims and duck house constructions, the MPs' expenses scandal has created the sense that government is utterly unaccountable. It's not, of course. The ballot box, freedom of speech, and the...
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NewsEsom resurfaces at Tyrells owner Langholm
Steven Esom will join private equity firm Langholm Capital as a partner this week, The Grocer can reveal.
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Comment & Opinion
Editor's Comment: Don't jeopardise a recovering economy for the sake of one month
The secret of comedy, it has oft been observed, is timing. But why stick with just comedy? Politics, business, sport, murder - the effectiveness of almost every decision relies to a greater or lesser extent on its timing.
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Editor's Comment: 'We need your help to fight looming calendar crunch'
It’s a very midsummer madness. Right now all thoughts are with sun, sand, picnics, holidays, and the welcome impact of a heatwave. But in retail, July also means Christmas – the golden quarter – is just around the corner.
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Editor's Comment: Diverse offer, not size, is key to beating recession
A remarkable feature of the recession has been the resilience of the supermarkets (as well as many grocery retailers), says Adam Leyland
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Editor's Comment: Good store managers are entrepreneurs, not caretakers
To the losers, awards are always cruel, and never more so than when individuals are singled out. If a company misses out, a collective sense of injustice — sometimes supplemented by alcohol — can unite a team.
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Editor's Comment: Is the discounter boom over?
Sustaining the discounters' godlike levels of growth - which saw Aldi's sales up 25% in 2008, while Lidl, Iceland, Farmfoods and others also enjoyed double-digit gains - was never going to happen.
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Editor's Comment: Big four's resilience is extraordinary, but Foley is the prime mover
Our annual exercise in quantifying power (see Power List 2009, p42) isn’t easy. And this year’s Top 10 list of multiples was particularly challenging. One might expect the recession to act as a Darwinian exercise in natural selection. Yet the...