Archive of all comment and opinion articles – Page 389
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Venture brands need nurturing
Will lack of culture and love be the Achilles heel for venture brands?…
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Sustainable farming means animals should be kept outside
In our green land, pasture-fed meat production makes total sense…
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Ode to WH Smith
WH Smith reported another sales dip today. Its like-for-like sales were down 6% year on year for the 14 weeks to 8 June, while total sales in its high-street division fell 8%…
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Sainsbury's wins big
Sainsbury’s was the big winner at last night’s Grocer Gold Awards 2013.The supermarket chain went one better than its haul of four last year - walking off with five awards on the night.As well as retaining the Online Retailer of The Year gong, it won Consumer Initiative of the Year ...
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AG Barr-Britvic merger: A different place
What was the OFT thinking when it referred the proposed merger of AG Barr and Britvic to the Competition Commission?
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Ambrosia sets up a depressing summer with Devon Dream
Ambrosia is focusing on summer in its new ad for cream-custard hybrid Devon Dream…
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For new brands, the UK is a land of opportunity
I’m in California at the moment on a road trip…
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Lad mags: don't go crazy
The interest groups calling for the removal of lads’ mags from supermarket shelves risk jeopardising their credibility by exhibiting “political correctness gone mad…
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Conservatives' tobacco smoke signals are not encouraging
Stupidly, I had begun to think that nothing politicians did would amaze me any longer…
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Food Unwrapped's 'bombshell revelations' fail to impress
Oh, the self-sacrifice. Jimmy Doherty and his team are once again travelling the world to find out what’s in our food…
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Farming after EU exit - what would happen?
There remains much chatter about the UK possibly leaving the EU…
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Supply chain finance comes of age
A decade ago the buyer was king. Contacts were guarded even from their own finance and treasury departments…
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Asda tackles food waste with FareShare
As a nation we spend £40bn on eating out each year and yet four million adults and children in the UK go hungry…
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Great British dimwits, Fiji questions and Professor Horsemeat
You can take the news that two out of three shoppers are baffled by bogofs in two ways…
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The Co-op Group now has a 'formidable' management team
This week, The Co-operative Group chairman Len Wardle described the society’s new management team as “formidable”…
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Will 'New Flora' be remembered in the same way as New Coke?
Consumer goods manufacturers know they alter a recipe at their peril…
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Jim Viggars - Asda's hunk of meat - honoured by charity
Congratulations to Asda’s senior meat trader Jim Viggars, named ‘employee fundraiser of the year’ by Breast Cancer UK…
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Brian May and the badgers sort out better beats with new song
Obviously stung by Bogof’s critique of his anti-badger cull song, Queen axe legend Brian May has bucked up his ideas…
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Portas-style high street revivals are pipe dreams
Cheerleaders for small shops will have found little to cheer about in the latest Grocery Retail Structure report…
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Critical Eye: The Chef's Protege
Fair play to the BBC. It might have two half-dead horses in its stable but it keeps on flogging them…