Archive of all comment and opinion articles – Page 417
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Celebrate and interact with your team: if they are happy, it will show
While your business objective is not to win awards, used well they can be a potent message and a powerful cause for celebration.
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Out-of-box packaging experiences
Packaging can now broadcast its own advertising, show you a 3D version of the pack contents in action…
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Pink slime: a crimson tide?
Summer has finally arrived, but what’s on your barbecue?
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A slow-burner for Weetabix
Last month Kellogg’s was in hot water with the advertising watchdog over calorie claims relating to its Special K cereal…
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Tales of Titania: Sunshine, Stacey Solomon and pizza love
I’m blissed out on sunshine. Not, alas, in a strappy-sundress-lying-down-in-the-park sort of way.
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Sports drinks: the facts
We were disappointed by the views expressed in the BBC Panorama programme The Truth About…
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Consumers need champions
In my time as retail controller of the Co-operative Wholesale Society (CWS) I was a member of…
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Britvic is in for a squeeze over Fruit Shoot
As I was gasping for a drink on a red hot summer’s day at Alton Towers 12 years ago, a team of samplers…
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The one billion unit pledge
Last week I witnessed something quite unexpected. The Health Select Committee report on the…
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As the Olympics begin, time to reflect on grocery's fitness
What an uplifting week. As the Olympics kicks off, the sun is finally shining and the campaigning of dairy farmers has them rivalling Bradley Wiggins for national support.
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Educating the anti-salt lobby
As someone who has low, not high, blood pressure, I get a little irritated with health charities on a salt reduction crusade.
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Yellow jersey, golden fleece
At just 10 stone and eight pounds, there’s not enough of Brad Wiggins to go round everyone who wants a piece of him…
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Sharp practice, dull shoppers
A few seconds and a bowlful of cookies were all it took to show how meaningless five-a-day claims are in isolation.
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Tales of Titania: Olympics silly season and survey fever
The pre-Olympics silly season is upon us, meaning that lame PRs who haven’t got any real news to punt at the media…
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Rainy days for food inflation
The definition of ‘summer’ may have permanently changed in Britain with yet another inclement July…
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More turbulence for booze brands
Sales of the top 100 liquor brands have grown 2.8% in value over the past year, but volume is down…
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What consultation, Asda?
On Saturday last I joined the group Marple in Action in a visit to a consultation exercise at the local…
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Minimum alcohol pricing is a big risk
Politicians argue that alcohol abuse and related antisocial behaviour is a big problem and that minimum pricing is the solution.
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We can trust in the booze industry's ability to adapt
We aren’t a nation of teetotallers yet, but it sure looks like we might be heading that way.