All articles by Charlie Wright – Page 38
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Coke boss Kent adopts recovery position
Coca Cola chief executive Muhar Kent has hailed the beginning of a global economic recovery, as growth in emerging markets helped the soft drinks giant to a 2% rise in sales volumes.
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Bulletin: Cadbury figures; VAT on food; Tesco shares up
Confectioner surprises with strong Q3; new tax could hit grocery; speculation buoys mults' share price
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NewsCritical Eye... on kids with machetes and big sparkly power drills
Stop the presses! We're drinking too much. (Yawn.) If it's not the BrewDog'n'meths cocktails making you sleepy, it's probably because you've heard this a million times before. Booze makes you fat, makes you fight, makes you f-...feel unwell. The...
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Quality Test: Own-label healthy eating fromage frais, 500g
Tesco's fromage frais was a touch bland to the taste. It had also separated slightly in the pot, costing it a further point.
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Bulletin: Gates tackles world hunger... Sainsbury's bid talk... PepsiCo iPhone gaffe
Microsoft guru's foundation invests in food production; supermarket's shares soar on speculation; PR gaffe? there's an app for that
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NewsAldi names Aussie-based Barnes as new UK MD
Aldi has named Matthew Barnes – the head of buying at its Australian business – as its new UK managing director.
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Around the Papers 14/10/09
Rose successors queue up; Newcastle Brown Ale on the move; PepsiCo pact with Anhesuer
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Around the Papers 12/10/09
Co-op cashes in; Deloitte on rack over Bakkavor sale; Cadbury update looms
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Comment & Opinion
Critical Eye... on beards, bikers and the true smell of Scotland
On the screen, beards generally signify either depression or evil (or both in the case of Jeremy Beadle). So how refreshing that despite the ample chin-moss of the Hairy Bikers, whose Food Tour of Britain (Friday, BBC2) concluded this week, they...
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Ad of the Week: Plucky Patak’s pines for the past
We all have regrets: the girl that got away; the twelfth Sambuca; buying a unicycle. (What a night that was.)
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Unilever cleans up with Diversey divestment
Consumer goods giant Unilever has diluted its stake in industrial cleaning business JohnsonDiversey, in a deal worth more than $400m.
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Critical Eye... on sweaty sauces and sobbing toddlers
In a wide-ranging poem that involved, among other things, roasted cormorants and unruly horses, the Roman scribe Horace told readers to "seek for sauce by sweating". The Asda worker recently busted for doing unspeakable things to frozen...
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Around the Papers 24/9/09
Cadbury backtracks; King surves his realm; 'pizza is bad for you' shock
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Around the Papers 22/9/09
Tesco ad row; Stilton 'from Stilton' sensation; Jesus 'would shop at Aldi'
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Ad of the Week: Vimto's mixed message takes us all for a ride
This column has previously noted (almost every week, actually) that advertisers seem to think 'zany' equals 'lucrative'. Usually the ghastly pantomime grates like children's knees on playground asphalt, but Vimto's trip to the fairground somehow pulls it off.
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Around the Papers 14/9/09
New Sainsbury's chair; Cadbury bid rumbles on; product placement gets go-ahead
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Tesco Telecoms adds 100 jobs in Liverpool
Tesco has announced the creation of 100 new jobs in Liverpool with a new customer service hub for its phone and broadband business.