All articles by Charlie Wright – Page 42
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Uncle Ben’s bags ITV cookery sponsorship deal
Uncle Ben’s has agreed a major tie-up with ITV that will see the rice brand sponsor some of the broadcaster’s most popular cookery shows.
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Asda's £2 roses create row not romance
Asda has been slammed by a major poverty charity over roses costing just £2 a dozen, designed to woo cash-strapped shoppers for Valentine's Day.
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PR coup for Tesco as jobseekers swamp new store
A new-look Tesco store in Liverpool was flooded with so many job applications interviews were conducted in a temporary location offsite.
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EUK games man Stanhope handed Tesco buying role
Tesco has signalled plans to ramp up its presence in the video games market with the capture of former EUK games chief John Stanhope.
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Food and drink leads the way in surprise retail revival
Food and drink has again emerged as the most resilient sector in UK retail, with new figures from the British Retail Consortium showing like-for-like food sales were up by 5.1% in January compared to last year.
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NewsAd of the Week: Chicago Town is Tuck In the middle with you
It’s debatable whether microwave pizza really counts as traditional Italian cuisine, but there are unquestionably advertising clichés in flogging the stuff that are as timeless as the Eternal City or its interminable traffic jams. This column...
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P&G set to renew focus on consumer business
Proctor & Gamble is set to focus on its consumer products business as the US giant eyes the sale of its pharmaceuticals arm.
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NewsAd of the Week: Gorilla tactics leave Cadbury's new glass half-empty
Consider the law of diminishing returns in cinema, where sequels that improve on the original are famously limited to The Godfather Part II, Aliens and Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo. For Cadbury, topping the impact of its already-iconic...
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Minister calls for clarity over meat labels
The environment secretary, Hilary Benn, has thrown his weight behind calls for supermarkets to stop selling as British processed food containing foreign meat.
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Wrigley will take 60 days to share suppliers' payments
Confectionery giant Wrigley is doubling the amount of time it will take to pay suppliers from 30 days to 60, according to reports.
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Around the Papers 26/1/09
Cocoa crisis; Tesco's secret poultry talks; alcohol improves bedroom performance, claim Aussies
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Motorway services giant RoadChef on the market
The owner of RoadChef is looking for potential buyers for the business, as the motorway services giant feels the effects of the supermarket price war on fuel.
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Comment & OpinionAd of the Week: Three trees, two dead birds and one confusing commercial
Toilet roll is surely one of the more ironclad categories in a resilient sector - barring some dramatic change of shoppers' bathroom habits or an unlikely evolutionary leap altering our anatomy. Which is lucky for SCA, whose latest Triple...
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Around the Papers 22/1/09
Court hears of peanut vengeance; row over US tax on Roquefort; delicious, delicious frogs on edge of oblivion
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Sainsbury's streamlines structure in HQ cull
Sainsbury's is to restructure its business into three main streams – fresh food, grocery and non-food – as part of a reorganisation that will lead to the loss of around 200 jobs at its Holborn headquarters.
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NI's Tayto snaps up premium crisp maker
Northern Ireland snack group Tayto has snapped up struggling crisp maker Jonathan Crisp for an undisclosed sum.
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Britain now world’s top wine importer as youngsters fuel vodka boom
Britain has become the world’s largest importer of wine, according to new figures from show organiser VinExpo.
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NewsBooker in sales boost as Barclays brokers new debt deal
Wholesale giant Booker has announced a rise in like-for-like sales of almost 3% for the past four months despite a slight fall in tobacco sales.
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Tesco confirms 2.5% growth as Cescau comes aboard
Tesco has posted a modest 2.5% rise in UK like-for-like sales for the seven weeks to 10 January, in what is likely to be the slowest rate of growth among the UK’s big four supermarkets for the key Christmas period.
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Premier eyes private equity role in bid to reduce debt
Premier Foods is set to sell off a 40% stake in the company to private equity investors as the owner of Hovis and Branston Pickle seeks to reduce its £1.6bn debt burden.