Comment & opinion – Page 51
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Comment & OpinionFlora’s Smoked Garlic line takes flavoured butters into the mainstream
As the third largest player in the butters and spreads category, Flora’s entry into flavoured lines is a milestone
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Comment & OpinionChefs don’t like Heinz’s carbonara… but shoppers will
Heinz is targeting younger, time-poor shoppers, who have already snapped up the cans DTC
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Comment & OpinionThe future of generative AI in grocery is an expert assistant
Amazon’s Rufus is just the start of genuine conversational commerce, says Sam Dods, head of mobile engineering at Kin & Carta Europe
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Comment & OpinionLessons from Gen Alpha’s favourite food and drink brands
The likes of Pringles, Oreo and McDonald’s all engage kids in different ways, says Helenor Gilmour, director of strategy at Beano Brain
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Comment & OpinionIceland is right to flag retail crime measures, but police support is a must
Richard Walker’s proposal for more heavy-handed security guards likely stems from concerns over police support
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Comment & OpinionLabour must tackle the root causes of food & drink’s recruitment crisis
If we are to truly tackle the recruitment crisis, we need to address the wider issues
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Comment & OpinionFood hard to spot in Hello Fresh’s stylish campaign
The idea is that the company provides ‘recipe boxes delivered for every family’s style’
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Comment & OpinionThe Golden Cobra: curry house comedy will appeal to restaurant workers
The eponymous Indian takeaway restaurant is not somewhere you’d want to place an order
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Comment & OpinionPut yourself in your customers’ shoes… and solve their problems!
If you want to change the world, you have to throw a better party than those destroying it, says Jenny Costa of Rubies in the Rubble
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Comment & OpinionWhite Claw’s vodka extension is another sign of hard seltzer’s demise
Hard seltzer sales remain small, and White Claw sees a bigger opportunity in spirits
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Comment & OpinionThink local to improve Britain’s high streets
If Labour is to rejuvenate our high streets, it needs to think carefully about the marketing and creative propositions that will thrive in this new future, says Fergus McCallum, CEO at creative agency TBWA\MCR
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Comment & OpinionTikTok cucumber trend comes too late for UK growers
Logan Moffitt has taken the internet by storm with his cucumber salads videos racking up over 30 million views
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Comment & OpinionSupermarkets have groomed us to accept subpar fruit & veg
We’ve been groomed to accept watery cultivars and produce where any biodiverse trait or breath of seasonality has been edited out, says Joanna Blythman, food journalist and author of Swallow This
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Comment & OpinionHow M&S clothing went from frumpy to Gen Z favourite
M&S’s style renaissance has been driven by Gen Z shoppers, a demographic that would have steered well clear of the M&S clobber of yesteryear
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Comment & OpinionWhat can we learn from Tesco’s continued market dominance?
Tesco delivers on the things that matter to a lot of people, rather than trying to be the best at one or two elements, says Jeremy Garlick, partner at Insight Traction
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Comment & OpinionUltra-processed foods concerns are changing shopper behaviour
Heightened awareness is resulting in higher expectations
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Comment & OpinionTom Daley helps Malibu deliver swimming safety message
Malibu would struggle to find a better soundtrack or poolside partner
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Comment & OpinionBarons: analysis of US food industry corruption offers uncomfortable truths
Author Austin Frerick peppers this book with action and lurid anecdotes, but he prioritises deep analysis
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Comment & OpinionWhat’s behind Moët Hennessy’s Beyoncé whiskey play?
Beyoncé’s near-universal appeal will help sell bottles, but the attention given to liquid development suggests this is more than a cash grab
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Comment & OpinionThe most sustainable packaging material? The answer is complicated
We need to assess supermarket packaging by carbon emissions and circular recycling, say Ian Coulter, partner at Food Strategy Associates and Paul Smith, founder of Sustainability Business Solutions