All articles by Charlie Wright – Page 26
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Comment & OpinionVlad the Enabler
Premier Foods needed some good news. Tesco has just de-listed a raft of Hovis lines, it’s in the kind of debt that would give George Osborne nightmares – and to compound things, the company is getting a visit from a bunch of The Grocer’s top hacks later this week.
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NewsCoca-Cola calls time on Malvern Water
Coca-Cola is to close its historic Malvern Water bottling plant, with the loss of 17 jobs.
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Comment & OpinionLucky dip or double dip
For politicos, pundits and number crunchers, yesterday’s Comprehensive Spending Review was a dream.
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NewsClubcard points lose value with Tesco’s partners
Tesco has confirmed plans to cut the value of Clubcard points with partner organisations to keep its double points push “sustainable’.
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Comment & OpinionCharity, clarity and a flamingo-tinged ringmaster
So the trophies are safely atop fireplaces, the tuxedos at the dry cleaners and the hangovers (mostly) subsided.
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NewsWatchdog bans Heston’s ‘happy pigs’ ad
A Waitrose advert starring Heston Blumenthal and some “happy pigs” in Norfolk has been banned for misleading consumers over the living conditions for the animals reared on its farms.
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NewsEating less meat ‘would save 45,000 lives a year’
The meat trade has again come under attack from health campaigners, who claim 45,000 deaths a year are due to excessive meat consumption.
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Comment & OpinionMarmite's brave new world
Love it or hate it, you can’t ignore it. Marmite seems to be everywhere at the moment.
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Comment & OpinionCalling International Rescue
Few of us could fail to be moved by the heart-warming pictures of the 33 Chilean miners as they were reunited with their loved ones after 69 days trapped underground.
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NewsOFT fines Reckitt £10m for Gaviscon abuse
Reckitt Benckiser has been fined £10.2m by the Office of Fair Trading for abusing its market position to protect its Gaviscon anti-heartburn brand.
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Comment & OpinionAnd for my next trick...
Taking the industry by surprise is something Charles Wilson, chief executive of cash & carry giant Booker, has got rather good at.
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NewsTesco wins beef with Morrisons over Finest ad
Advertising authorities have sided with Tesco in a spat with Morrisons over a press ad for Finest beef.
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Comment & OpinionRunning to stand still
Two sets of data arrived in The Grocer’s inbox this afternoon.
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Comment & Opinion
The best comeback since Lazarus
Never go back, they say. That truism is given the lie by the triumphant homecoming of Iceland founder Malcolm Walker.
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NewsAsda axes final salary pension scheme
Asda has axed its final salary pension scheme in a move that affects 3,800 managerial staff.
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Comment & OpinionCritical Eye... on pinstripe offal and sawdust sausages
The unreality grind goes on, The Apprentice (BBC1, Wednesday 9pm) back piping more human offal into pinstripe casings misleadingly marked 'dynamo'. The series six opener took that sausage-factory approach to its logical conclusion,...
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NewsCastel deal could boost SAB Miller in Africa
SAB Miller is eyeing a £6bn swoop for the African beer business of Groupe Castel, the French brewer that owns the Nicolas off-licence chain.
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Comment & OpinionYou can take the man out of Morrisons...
You can take the man out of Morrisons, it seems, but you can’t take the Morrisons out of the man.
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Comment & OpinionRiders on the storm
That’s more like it. Sainsbury’s today updated an expectant world on its second quarter trading and, in the context of the current market, the numbers are very impressive.