Comment & opinion – Page 256
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Comment and Opinion
Tesco has some hard decisions to make on what is 'healthy'
It cannot have been easy to persuade big brands to feature in the power aisle as ones to ditch
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Transfer rumour mill is nothing compared with what's going on in wholesale
Will Morrisons buy the Co-op? Will the Co-op buy Nisa and Costcutter? And who will buy P&H?
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Food & drink faces a tough road ahead as Brexit warnings mount
No one said Brexit would be easy – although plenty have suggested everything is going to be just fine
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Audits need to leap forward
The coordination and standardisation of audits was one of the eight pillars of food integrity in the Elliott Report
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Get mobile match fit in the machine learning age
You can’t just jump into the future – there has to be a solid bedrock and in the case of retail, that bedrock is mobile
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The future of eating is flexitarian
Sir, Joanna Blythman’s call for a more nuanced discussion than ‘all meat is bad/all plants are good’ is welcome
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Farming in Britain must be cultivated and cherished
Farmers’ role is to ensure shoppers have safe, trusted, affordable and quality food. And there’s a key word
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Your business can get greener one step at a time
Eco-conscious consumers are igniting a new food order
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Following the music: listen, adapt and reap the benefit
Jonathan Fitchew of Pareto Law looks to the music industry for lessons on digital learning
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Cadbury goes for short and sweet with Singles Sensations push
In a sector that often concentrates on ‘feeling’, Cadbury tries to remind us what it’s like to actually eat its products
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Pat feels sorry for Sainsbury's and ponders politicians
We retailers don’t always acquire a reputation for compassion. I’ve thought long and hard about this
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It’s been ‘challenging’ – but Sainsbury’s might enjoy a long-term gain
Sainsbury’s, the UK’s second largest supermarket chain, may be under the cosh at the moment for its falling sales, but its online investment is where things could really start to pay off
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Heineken’s new ad proves a talking point – but playing identity politics is a risky game
The concept of bringing together people with opposing views so they can find common ground is wonderful, so why is the Heineken ad being slammed in some quarters?
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Tesco and Booker should provide more clarity on deal
Uncertainty over the Tesco-Booker deal is inevitable given the unprecedented nature of the deal
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Analysis and Features
It’s a thaw point: are attitudes to frozen food changing?
Frozen food suffers from a major image problem, particularly when it comes to younger generations
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Brexit will shake up parallel trade
Exhaustion of rights’ is the legal concept that permits ‘parallel trade’ or ‘grey market’ imports of genuine branded goods
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The Life Scientific: MacGregor looks back at food battles
Back when schools still stuffed kids with salt tablets on sunny days, warnings that we were all slowly seasoning ourselves
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An election manifesto for food and drink
The food and drink industry has six, important weeks to make its case to whomever forms the next government
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Managing with new management: time to reassess what's vital
Nick and I have taken on an MD. This is probably the single biggest (and most significant) business decision we’ve made
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A chance to shout out
It took a Bristolian to sum up the national reaction: “You’re joking – not another one!”