Comment & opinion – Page 299
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Comment and OpinionShopping rewritten by disintermediation
”Sir; All the old bets are off in traditional/retailer supplier relationships”
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Comment and OpinionThe fashion for innovation: what food and drink could learn from the catwalk
A couple of big brands recently failed in legal attempts to keep their ideas for themselves
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Comment and OpinionIndependents need some truly disruptive innovation
Twenty years ago, the theory of disruptive innovation hit the world of business
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Comment and OpinionSugar Smart means sugar confusion
Not all sugars are equal. Consumers know an orange isn’t the same as a Jaffa cake
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Comment and OpinionMy Week… by Britannia (as told to Bill Tush)
When your suitors consist of inbred Etonians, Andy “turnaround specialist” Clarke and Nigel Farage, then I’d rather stay in
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Comment and OpinionMars choc recall highlights the need for gutsy communications strategies
No one could accuse Mars of lacking decisiveness with its chocolate recall, but its PR has been more hit and miss
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Comment and OpinionFarmland stuck on repeat: messages at NFU conference are all too familiar
NFU president Meurig Raymond reeled off a tale of woes faced by farmers over the past 12 months
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Comment and OpinionCoffee pod sales face a green challenge in Hamburg
Can a player come up with a material to keep coffee fresh without costing the earth?
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Comment and OpinionWhy the lure of selling direct is seriously tempting suppliers
“Disintermediation is easy to overestimate in the short term and underestimate in the long term”
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Comment and OpinionGrowth matters, it doesn't have to be all discounter dynamic
Grocery retail delivered zero growth in 2015, according to Kantar Worldpanel
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Comment and OpinionCRM needs the human factor. Just ask Walter Iuzzolino
Smart brands are still making high-profile punts on human intuition
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Comment and OpinionThe Great Sport Relief Bake Off provides food for thought
Is it strange The Great Sport Relief Bake Off features hardly any sports stars mixing up sponge?
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Comment and OpinionHow Formula 1 is helping to speed up supply chain forecasting
Pressure on supply chains to deliver on availability, price and speed is mounting
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Comment and OpinionWe need alternatives to sugary snacks not taxes
“Sugar is cheap, tasty and addictive, which is why so many companies cram it into their products”
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Comment and OpinionAsda's back in play: watertight ways to deal with desperation
After months of silence and reorganisation, Asda is now engaging with its suppliers on 2016 plans
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Comment and OpinionTesco to buy Morrisons? It doesn't need to
Dave Lewis and Tesco don’t need Morrisons even if they can have them (which they probably can’t)
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Comment and OpinionChewing over the question of gum in the classroom
Wrigley vs. the teaching profession: has it really gum to this?
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Comment and OpinionFood waste: the final mile
If supermarkets are to ensure more surplus food makes it to the hungry, retailers have to empower local people
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Comment and OpinionFrankenstein of food: surgeon screens freaky films
Foodies, fetishists, weirdos and any combination of the three rejoice!
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Comment and OpinionGau mutra: a moo brew that isn't good for you
It’s an exotic Indian speciality, popular for its religious and/or medical properties