Comment & opinion – Page 261
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Comment and Opinion
Waste must be cut out at every stage of food production
Increased control of production methods can help to minimise waste
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Comment and Opinion
A call to action on childhood obesity strategies
We believe it is time to start exploring a wider range of potential measures to reduce obesity, including regulation
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Comment and Opinion
Advice on culture: Have you 'married' the wrong company?
A career change can bring unexpected consequences, warns executive coach Jennifer Baker
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Analysis and Features
Labour shortage fears need to be taken seriously
Labour shortages in the agricultural industry are a very real threat to the food industry already, warned Alison Capper
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Comment and Opinion
Tricks of the coffee trade
The turnover of branded coffee chains in the UK has grown by over 500% in the last 15 years. How have they done it?
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Comment and Opinion
The Best of British Takeaways: tasty history of fish & chips
“Fast food doesn’t have to mean bad food,” said Tom Kerridge on The Best of British Takeaways
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Comment and Opinion
Fairtrade shocks shoppers with Farley & Bell entrapment
‘Don’t feed exploitation’ reads the stern strapline at the end of the Fairtrade Foundation’s ad
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Comment and Opinion
Food bank wins following libel ruling
Professional troll Katie Hopkins was last week ordered to pay £24,000 to food blogger Jack Monroe
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Pat mulls the nature of democracy and expertise
I have to be a little careful about what I say, seeing as how my little emporium is situated just a stone’s throw from the Mother of Parliaments
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Comment and Opinion
Lessons in experiential retail from around the globe - video
Rich Ford of Sherlock Studio picks four examples of experiential retail done well
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Comment and Opinion
Breathe new life into bricks & mortar stores
Bricks & mortar retailing is dead. Or that’s what we read. But in the food sector, that’s far from the truth.
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Comment and Opinion
Pushing Britain’s buttons: online grocery goes patriotic
A ‘buy British’ button would be fantastic news for British producers. It’s not that far-fetched, either
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Analysis and Features
Tips for winning business from The Grocer’s Own Label Conference
Expert speakers spill the beans on how to turn own labels into winning brands
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Analysis and Features
A letter to Tesco’s ‘endangered white male’ chairman John Allan
John Allan’s recent comments were intended to be humorous, but as the Tesco chair found to his cost, no one was really laughing and some even called for a boycott of the supermarket
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Comment and Opinion
The Top 50 is a fantastic advertisement for entrepreneurship
How can Iceland not be independent, with Malcolm Walker at the wheel?
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Analysis and Features
Will food safety regulation be too light-touch after Brexit?
The winds of change could be set to blow through the UK food sector’s regulatory landscape over the coming months
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Comment and Opinion
What we can learn from the Budget - and how it's presented
This week has seen Philip Hammond’s first Budget
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Comment and Opinion
The benefits of next-level data interrogation
Sometimes, we obsess about day-to-day performance to the detriment of bigger changes
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Comment and Opinion
Mary Berry gets controversial with 'Everyday' bolognese
Controversial isn’t the first word that springs to mind for Mary Berry
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Comment and Opinion
Price rise refusals could be bad news for UK shoppers
The fluctuations in currency exchange rates have been well documented since the vote for the UK to leave the EU