All articles by Adam Leyland – Page 52
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Comment & Opinion
Editor's Comment: Significant inflationary pressures remain in the system
Inflation. It's the last thing anyone needs right now. So multiple grocery retailers have been doing their best to downplay it, while bombarding the market with promotions. Yet, while the falling price of oil and plentiful harvests have...
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Comment & Opinion
Editor's Comment: Grocery companies are no longer immune to the downturn
New bosses always paint it black. Whether tacitly, or outspokenly, “it’s going to take time to sort out the mess I inherited”, has been inferred in the utterances of countless new chief executives, supply chain directors or supermarket managers,...
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Comment & Opinion
Editor's Comment: Spayne Lindsay's intriguing new private equity fund
As a result of the recession, there’s a heightened sense of anticipation in every announcement at the moment, good or bad, but C4’s devotion of seemingly its entire late-January schedule to food and drink-based issues is such, to paraphrase the late…
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News
Editor's Comment: Why not feed pigs on tinned pasta?
Normally I wouldn’t have given a second thought to the pâté in my fridge this morning. It was well past its sell-by date – a hangover from the excesses of Christmas. Until, that is, I read the advice of the Food Standards Agency this week....
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News
Mouthwash in cancer scare
The fast-growing mouthwash category has been dealt a blow after new research showed ethanol-based products increase the risk of oral cancer by up to nine times.
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Comment & Opinion
Editor's Comment: Did the earth move for you on 23 December?
In these apocalyptic times, there's a lot to take in. Yet the consensus seems to be that it's not as bad as it had been painted
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Comment & Opinion
Editor's Comment: The world order in grocery is still much as it was
Fasten your seatbelts, folks, it's going to be a bumpy ride. Over the next 140 pages, in screaming technicolour, we're taking you on a journey of this rollercoaster of a year. It's not always been scenic, it's often been downright scary, and at the...
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News
Pound and pint saved by EU climbdown
Pints, miles, pounds and ounces have been saved, after the European Parliament voted to scrap indefinitely plans to impose the metric system on the UK.
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News
Editor's Comment: If quality was the real battleground, Aldi would have rebranded as Trader Joe
The rise of the discounters this year has been nothing short of extraordinary. At 3.1% Aldi's market share is now close to that of Waitrose (3.6%). To some extent, the discounters have been filling up the space left by Kwik Save's demise,...
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News
Editor's Comment: Is Tesco's discounter range really a mistake when even Ocado is distancing itself from premium?
In the week that Morrisons reported an 8% increase in like-for-like sales, Tesco's 2.2% growth - and the discounter range that has arguably brought it about - looks neither big nor clever. While Sir Terry and his team argue it has deliberately...
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News
The candyman can
Cadbury CEO Todd Stitzer is on a mission to mend margins and make the newly demerged global confectionery giant sing. He's well on his way, says Adam Leyland
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Comment & Opinion
Editor's Comment: Now our futures depend on credit swaps, not just neeps and nappies
Who'd have thought it? Until the credit crunch I thought we were in the business of selling neeps and nappies; but our future more than ever depends on credit default swaps
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News
Editor's Comment: Is it really a rip-off to run products at sale prices for longer than the higher ones?
It isn't the season to be jolly. That's next month. But already, the Christmas bargains are coming thick and fast. As well as 20% off on clothing at Marks & Spencer, this week saw buy one get TWO deals at Morrisons, for example. And while no-one...
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NewsDefiant in the gloom
Sainsbury's chief executive Justin King explains why he's still looking up. By Julia Taylor and Adam Leyland
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Comment & Opinion
Editor's Comment: There are reasons to be cheerful in food and drink retailing
We're not saying all is rosy, but we thought it was time someone pointed out the many reasons to be cheerful in food and drink retailing
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Comment & Opinion
Editor's Comment: The market needs big suppliers to provide credit - but don't expect supermarkets to follow
Hurrah and huzzah. The Bank of England's dramatic 1.5% cut in interest rates this week is a shot in the arm after a series of snips that seemed not to grasp the severity of the situation. If nothing else, the cut will lower mortgage payments...
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Comment & Opinion
Editor's Comment: Cadbury chooses a good day to bury good news
W ill the London 2012 Olympic Games be an advertisement for sport and fun, or health and safety? I ask because my abiding memory of Britain's toe-curling contribution to the Beijing closing ceremony involved a young girl, 'representing' British...
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News
Reckitt boss slams Tesco for putting small suppliers at risk
As Tesco's tough negotiations with its suppliers continued this week, Reckitt Benckiser boss Bart Becht has said he believes the supermarket giant may drive small suppliers out of business.
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News
Editor's Comment: Tesco would be unwise to target small businesses in this climate
"Every time we meet,” the boss of one big supplier says of his invites from Sir Terry Leahy, “it costs me money.” After a two-week-long series of invitations to Cheshunt’s cosy cubicles – to discuss price cuts, trade term changes and contributions...
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News
Woolies is on ice, but what of Malcolm’s own empire?
Malcolm Walker has now ruled out a Woolworths takeover, but the future of Iceland is even more intriguing. Peter Cripps and Adam Leyland report