Archive of all comment and opinion articles – Page 408
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Bovine TB: grocery must back government over badger cull
The recent decision to postpone plans for a pilot cull of badgers was very difficult but also pragmatic and responsible….
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Waitrose and Aldi are set for a Merry Christmas
With the shelves now full of seasonal product, how will the supermarkets do over Christmas 2012?…
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Titania on an outbreak of dairy nationalism
Nationality seems to be a touchy subject in the dairy world at the moment.
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Booker finds itself in limbo...still
Booker shares slipped by just over 2% this afternoon after the Office of Fair Trading revealed it was referring the cash & carry giant’s acquisition of loss-making Makro to the Competition Commission.
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Mum's the word at Asda
“Just watched the @Asda Xmas advert - ffs, what the hell?! Can’t decide if it’s more insulting to women or men.”This was just one of many tweets condemning Asda’s ‘Behind every great Christmas, there’s mum’ ad, in which a ‘busy mum’ almost single-handedly sorts out the decorations, presents and food, ...
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Scheckter fury at 'unreasonable' Portman Group
Sir: I am disappointed but not necessarily surprised at the Portman Group’s actions….
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All Greek to me
How Greek should Greek yoghurt be? That is the question facing the High Court in London, as Total Greek Yoghurt maker Fage and US yoghurt heavyweight Chobani fight over who has the right to call their yoghurt “Greek”…
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Ad of the week: Jesse Metcalfe turns up the heat under Rooster Potatoes
Albert Bartlett made a virtue of a slightly strange celebrity tie-up when Marcia Cross popped across the Atlantic to ‘unwittingly’ advertise its Rooster potatoes back in 2009.
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A new way to get stuffed with Heston Blumenthal
Heston Blumenthal rarely lets us down when it comes to ‘eccentric’ food…
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How Britain's Hidden Hungry are hard to find... in every sense
The late time slot will have put many people off watching Britain’s Hidden Hungry, which is a real shame….
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Racking up trouble on the safety front
In September, a food refrigeration firm was fined £140,000 for failing to protect a workers from a fatal accident….
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Doubt, dither and delay by the government
Winston Churchill once famously said of Stanley Baldwin’s government: “So they go on, in strange paradox.”…
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FDF hails Burton's and other export heroes
Exports of British-manufactured food and non-alcoholic drinks are one of our industry’s key success stories….
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How the economy is suffering from David Brailsford syndrome
Last week, I accused the government of building an economic platform made of jelly. And constantly sticking its spoon in….
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Asda's marketing chief reports rise in own-label mid-tier sales
Own label was once seen as the poor relation to branded. Not anymore….
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Portman Group ruling against Jody Scheckter's ales is absurd
It’s not been a good month for the UK’s various governments when it comes to legislating to curb alcohol abuse…
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Tesco's big week
Tesco has had a busy week, even by its standards. It begun by launching a return to double points on Clubcard…
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A new hope for retailers
Not everyone in The Grocer office this morning shared my enthusiasm for the news that Disney was expanding its empire with the $4bn acquisition of Lucasfilms…