All articles by Charlie Wright – Page 33
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FDF and WWF pair up for sustainable fishing reform
The Food & Drink Federation has reached what it called a “landmark agreement” with the WWF in a bid help safeguard fish stocks at sustainable levels.
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Magnum Gold gives Unilever first-quarter boost
Upmarket new ice creams and shower products for older men helped first-quarter volume growth at Unilever – although European sales by value remained almost flat.
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Innocent Kids debuts new website
Innocent has unveiled a new website for young smoothie fans to complement its latest fridge magnet promotion.
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M&S pioneers ‘fair price’ ethical milk plan
Marks & Spencer will pay dairy farmers to improve their herds’ living conditions with the introduction of a “groundbreaking” new pricing scheme.
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World Cup Watch: Group C
Local food mixes French and Turkish influences with the traditional cuisine of nomadic Berber tribesmen.
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Fruit prices push food inflation to ‘highest in six months’
Food inflation in March rose to its highest level in six months, new figures show, with soaring fruit prices a major driver of the increase.
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Tesco fined over fire safety breach
Tesco has been slapped with fines and costs totalling more than £100,000 after admitting to serious breaches of fire safety guidelines at a north London store.
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Cadbury sale ‘nets former boss Stitzer £40m’
Cadbury chief executive Todd Stitzer parted company with the Dairy Milk maker better off to the tune of £40m, according to press reports over the weekend.
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Soft drinks and seafood drive exports to new record
UK food exports neared £10bn in 2009 after rising for the fifth consecutive year.
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Critical Eye... on Heston's dark recesses
Chefs love quality ingredients, so it's odd they couldn't get better celebrities for Heston's Fairytale Feast (Tuesday 9pm, Channel 4) especially with Waitrose's wunderkind in top form.
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World Cup Watch: Group B
As well as prodigiously gifted footballing dwarves, Argentina's main export is beef.
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Ad of the Week: Do as Lucozade says, not as it does
Like those unscrupulous folk selling mephedrone as plant food, marketing often depends on conspiracy. When you're unplugged from The Matrix and find your real life is rubbish, it makes more sense to go along with the lie.
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Quality Test: White muffins, own label, 4pk
The Waitrose muffin was the weakest of the lot; it was very floury and rather doughy, an effect not helped by its oddly synthetic aftertaste.
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World Cup Watch: Group A
The French eat 70,000 horses a year a fraction of the 4.7 million horses eaten globally. Horse contains 40% fewer calories than beef, but more protein.
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Ad of the Week: Magnum’s star force is talking bullion
Us Brits had a love-hate relationship with Eva Longoria. Unilever loved her; everyone else hated her. Magnum has traded up by a factor of about a billion for its new Gold ad, a richly cinematic heist movie 'trailer'.
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Coca-Cola ups Innocent stake to 58%
Coca-Cola has upped its stake in Innocent, as the smoothie maker continues to develop its plans for international expansion.
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MPs slam ‘irresponsible’ Kraft over Cadbury deal
Kraft Foods acted “irresponsibly and unwisely” during its takeover of Cadbury, according to a report by MPs to be published later today.
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Critical Eye... on ginger's Joan of Arc
Where did all the chefs go? Nowadays you can't open a can of tuna without getting a 12-part series on satellite and suddenly every cook is a 'celebrity' too.
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Ad of the Week: Magners' method man refreshes the cider clan
It's not your typical luck o' the Irish that cider snatcher Darling effectively banned it the same week the new Magners ad hit screens.
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Critical Eye... on Sophie's dead-eyed deliciousness
If there's one word to best describe Sophie Dahl it might be 'lifelike'. She has the right features in the usual places, moves in a realistic enough fashion and gamely attempts human speech.