All The Grocer articles in Blogs – Page 21
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Comment & Opinion
Unilever's design for life
There’s a hint of Marlon Brando about Paul Polman, chief executive of Unilever, which would make him on the surface an unlikely godfather for a subject like sustainability, even if it wasn’t for his position as the head of a global FMCG titan.But Polman has taken another step towards cementing ...
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Clarke and the 'what if' factor
Buried on page 18 of the Tesco results presentation was a section on its Japanese operations, with a brutally blunt heading at the top: ‘Discontinued’.
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Cold facts and hard potatoes
GM, it’s fair to say, remains one of the food industry’s hottest political potatoes. Whether it’s stunts against GM wheat, outrage against supposedly GM broccoli or controversy over feed requirements, there are few food-related issues…
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Did Phil answer the big questions?
Considering he was announcing Tesco’s first fall in UK profits for two decades, chief executive Philip Clarke appeared a remarkable relaxed man as he faced the world’s press in London today…
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Marc Bolland's lucky dip
Ken Livingstone and Marc Bolland are lucky men - both seem to have found millions of pounds down the back of the proverbial sofa…
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Brands on the run
The government today launched its much anticipated consultation into whether to force tobacco manufacturers to remove all branding from their | products in a move it hopes will help reduce the 100,000 deaths a year it says are caused by smoking.
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Tesco's video nation
Yesterday Tesco made the overdue admission that it’s time to freshen up its advertising. Today came further evidence of the chain’s efforts to change the conversation…
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Goodbye, red brick road?
News of yet more upheaval came from Tesco today, as the supermarket giant very publicly invited agencies to pitch for an advertising account worth £110m a year…
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The domino effect
As the grocery trade continues to digest the demise of wholesalers DBC and Eskimo, there were further dispatches today from the doom and gloom department…
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The blue and white stripes bow out
As shoppers rush to stores to buy their souvenir blue-striped Value baked bean tins,the canning of Tesco’s Value range marks the end of an era stretching back almost two decades. It could also mark the start of a blitz of activity from the supermarket giant over the next few weeks…
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When the going gets tuff...
“You should never be afraid to copy what your friendly multiple’s latest idea is!” That advice came last weekend from Paul Delves, MD of leading independent Harry Tuffins…
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Game changer
Game Group has been given the chance to hit the reset button. OpCapita - no stranger to headline-grabbing deals after snapping up Comet for £2 last year…
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Co-op banks on modernisation
The Co-operative Group, the nation’s fifth biggest supermarket, released its full-year results this morning…
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Sausage roll model
Pasty-dodger George Osborne probably expected the fallout from the budget to focus on the top rate tax cut to 45p, which gave rich people more cash, or the freeze on tax allowances for pensioners, which gave poor people less…
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I love it when a plan comes together
The ACS and the BRC haven’t exactly seen eye to eye on a great deal recently. But today’s warmly received publication of the National Planning Policy Framework has bought an air of harmony to the world of British retail…
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The XXL Factor
Fat men with weird facial hair bestowing gifts on total strangers is, of course, a tradition at this time of year.