All articles by Charlie Wright – Page 43
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Ad of the Week: Benylin goes viral
Getting yourself heard through the post-Christmas fug can be tough, when the cash-strapped and partied-out stare glassy-eyed at the television, drained for a week or two of the irrepressible impulse to Buy Things. A spot of controversy often...
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Sainsbury’s celebrates best-ever Christmas
Sainsbury’s is celebrating its best-ever Christmas performance after announcing a rise in third-quarter sales of 4.5%.
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Takeaways defy downturn as Domino’s and Greggs boost sales
Domino’s Pizza continues to defy the downturn after forecasting that its full-year profits would be better than previously expected.
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NewsSimply Food, not fashion, is biggest casualty as M&S closes stores
Marks & Spencer will cull 1,200 jobs and close 27 stores – including 25 Simply Food stores – after announcing its worst quarterly performance for more than a decade.
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Promotions the key for Price as Waitrose braced for tough start to ‘09
Waitrose managing director Mark Price has pledged to step up the supermarket’s promotional activity in the opening months of 2009 in response to the continuing economic slump.
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Coors eyes women drinkers with Project Eve
Drinks giant Coors is set to target women drinkers in 2009 after the brewer of Carling set up a group dubbed Project Eve to increase awareness of its brands among female consumers.
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Latest Tesco property deals raise £308m
Tesco has announced two major property deals worth in excess of £300m, as the supermarket giant continues its programme of unlocking value from its vast portfolio of commercial assets.
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FSA warns industry of fake letter scam
The Food Standards Agency has warned food companies to be vigilant after one business received a letter claiming to be from the body demanding cash in return for breaches of food regulations.
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Poundland, Lidl unveil ’09 growth plans
Budget retailer Poundland has announced plans to open a raft of new stores in 2009 despite the prospect of a drawn-out recession.
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Alternative CV: Father Christmas, chief operating officer, Lapland Gift Solutions Inc
What's your nickname? The elves started calling me Captain Birdseye a few years ago and it's stuck. In Japan they call me Annual Gift Man.
Who was your first teenage crush and why? I always fancied the Tooth Fairy until she hooked up with that Easter Bunny idiot. But anyone in stockings is good with me. -
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Ad of the Week: Monkey's christmas message
You can't stop progress. And PG Tips has come a long way over the years, its tea-sipping chimps of the 1950s (and 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s) clambering out of adland's primordial soup and evolving into the TV dream team of hernia-voiced funnyman Johnny...
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Campaigns of the Year 2008
From the suave Stella 4 hero to the Mafioso panda, with suicidal Creme Eggs and a gay Heinz kiss on the way, it's been a hot year in advertising. Charlie Wright reports
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NewsFood Standards Agency reassures public on dioxin in Irish beef
Irish beef is the subject of a new health scare after the Food Standards Agency warned that meat contaminated with dioxins had reached shop shelves in the UK.
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Consumer body casts doubt on diet brand claims
Which? has sparked a new row over food labelling after research by the consumer body showed some products marketed as low-fat or reduced-calorie options were often no healthier than standard ranges.
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Scientists warn of ‘second wave’ of mad cow deaths
Hundreds of people could die from a ‘second wave’ of deaths related to the human variant of mad cow disease, according to scientists.
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Cadbury unveils new finance chief
Cadbury has named Andrew Bonfield as its new chief financial officer. Bonfield, who joins the confectionery giant on 1 February, was previously finance chief at pharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb and has also held senior roles at BG Group and the pre-merger SmithKline Beecham.
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New commercial director for on-course PZ Cussons
Imperial Leather maker PZ Cussons has named a new commercial director after announcing its first-half performance was in line with expectations.
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Comment and OpinionCritical Eye: Mitterrand's prostate and the French malaise
François Mitterrand's prostate. Not the most obvious place to start for a mainstream food show but the entry point nonetheless for France On A Plate (BBC4, Monday), a greatest-hits collection of stereotypes about the French eating anything with a...
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Ad of the Week: Tilda rolls back the years
Rice sells itself, right? After all, around a third of the world's population eats the stuff every day. But perhaps that's what makes it tough to grab people's attention. Which is presumably why Tilda has pulled out all the stops on the new...
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NewsChicago Town is just what the Dr ordered
Dr Oetker has snapped up pizza brand Chicago Town from the Schwan Food Company for an undisclosed sum.