Archive of all comment and opinion articles – Page 410
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Sustainable seafood: why god is in the detail
There has been a lot of noise this week around creating a truly sustainable European fisheries policy…
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Second Opinion: Two cities nurturing indies
A visit to Amsterdam underlines how diminished our British cityscape has been by the unbridled spread of supermarkets…
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Third Party: Don't go purple with rage at Cadbury
The High Court recently rejected a challenge by Nestlé to Cadbury’s application to register its colour purple for chocolate…
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Diversity can help your business address complex problems
Marks and Spencer’s commitment to employing people with disabilities and health conditions, with the roll-out of the Marks & Starts scheme…
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Talking Shop: Obsess about detail, detail
There is a saying used by retailers and about retailers - “they know the price of everything but the value of nothing”…
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Tales of Titania 20/10/12
We’re called into secret talks at the FDF to use our “award-winning PR skills” to help stem the decline in traditional food sales…
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Comment & OpinionCafedirect keeps thinking small
There’s probably a good crossover between Fairtrade loyalists and people who watched Adam & Joe on Channel 4 in the 1990s…
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Is it time retailers stood up in the badger cull debate
It’s been a busy week with badgers. From farmers being threatened with losing Freedom Food accreditation if they take part in the impending cull pilot and pre-eminent scientists criticising the government’s cull policy in a national newspaper…
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Blame it on the bean counters
There are only two certainties in life, as anyone will tell you: death and taxes. Unless you’re Starbucks, that is. It hasn’t paid a bean in corporation tax for the past three years, according to an investigation into the coffee giant’s UK tax affairs by Reuters…
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Breakfast blues
Today’s papers were quick to pick up on a survey revealing that more and more children are going into school hungry. Seventy-nine per cent of teachers reckoned kids were turning up with rumbling tums, and more than half said the problem was getting worse…
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Marco's stock pots make P&F proud, cocktail cock-up doesn't
Marco Pierre White has lumbered back onto our screens to promote Knorr Stock Pots…
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Third Party: It's time the OFT stopped interfering
The OFT has announced that Mizkan is offering to sell its Burntwood vinegar production site to ensure its proposed acquisition…
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Comment & OpinionGender roles are pie in the sky
First The Grocer revealed that blokes are now more likely to take solace in chocolate than women, thanks to the stress of the recession…
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Tobacco margins: who's fooling who?
Cigarettes and tobacco have always been an essential element of a convenience offering, often accounting for 40% or more of sales…
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Why did everyone discount the discounters at the IGD Convention?
This year’s IGD’s convention was the best I can remember. So why did everyone discount the discounters?
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Tesco calls an end to the space race
Houston calling’… ‘This is the end of the space race’. And so Tesco chief executive Philip Clarke announced that supermarket development…
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We're more than a Brand Match for rivals
There is no question that this has been a good summer for Sainsbury’s…
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Hooray for Paul Hollywood in the Great British Bake-Off
So the finalists of the Great British Bake-Off are nearing their final hurdle: the final…
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Morrisons green ranking unfair
Sir: I was very disappointed with the ranking given to Morrisons in your ‘Green Giants?’ feature in your Green Issue
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Pension scheme laws: don't get left on the blocks
Olympians and Paralympians are not the only ones to have spent the past four years preparing for D-day…