Archive of all comment and opinion articles – Page 425
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Leaders need their teams - but following is just as important
Leadership in businesses tends to focus greatly on the performance and role of the leader…
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Comparing food or fighter jets? I know which is more useful for kids
It’s five years since The Grocer first ‘discovered’ EdStat, a children’s card game, based on Top Trumps, in which nutritional data about leading food and drink products is ‘trumped’.
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Lessons from Smith's Asda Magic
Dangerous things, biographies. Reading Steve Jobs’ you realise he was seemingly an unpleasant, amoral bully…
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A week is a long time in dairy
Last week this column noted how life is rarely dull in dairy. And we got another demonstration today of how quickly things can change in the sector…
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Unilever's design for life
There’s a hint of Marlon Brando about Paul Polman, chief executive of Unilever, which would make him on the surface an unlikely godfather for a subject like sustainability, even if it wasn’t for his position as the head of a global FMCG titan.But Polman has taken another step towards cementing ...
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Unilever's design for life
There’s a hint of Marlon Brando about Paul Polman, chief executive of Unilever, making him an unlikely godfather for a subject like sustainability.
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Clarke and the 'what if' factor
Buried on page 18 of the Tesco results presentation was a section on its Japanese operations, with a brutally blunt heading at the top: ‘Discontinued’.
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Clarke and the ‘what if’ factor
Tesco headed up the section on its Japanese operations with the brutally blunt heading ‘Discontinued’. Not so for the US - yet.
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Cold facts and hard potatoes
GM, it’s fair to say, remains one of the food industry’s hottest political potatoes. Whether it’s stunts against GM wheat, outrage against supposedly GM broccoli or controversy over feed requirements, there are few food-related issues…
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Cold facts and hot potatoes
Whether it’s stunts against GM wheat, outrage at iffy broccoli or controversy over feed requirements, few issues…
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Dairy Crest is doing the right thing
Dairy Crest’s announcement of plant closures and lost retail business is understandably of major significance to dairy farmers.
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Tuscan raiders and squirrels on steroids
When you’re feeling a bit frayed around the edges after a long day at work, there’s no better way to lift the spirits than a dose of the Hairy Bikers.
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Let’s hold goose fat price
Goose production in the UK is generally an immature developing industry and has a long way to go to match production in places such as Poland.
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Starters orders... marks, get set, sell!
We are now fewer than three months away from a ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ experience - something we will…
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Invest in the visual web
Why did a company with over 830 million users pay $1bn for a start-up with just 13 employees and just 30 million users?
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How to sell: engage with your customer's strategy
A supplier had a cracking business with most major multiples but couldn’t get a breakthrough with Asda
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Busybodies and disapprovers are on the march
April is the cruellest month, wrote TS Eliot. In political terms, the present one is also turning out to be the most perverse.
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Will Adjudicator be all bark and no bite?
The industry waits with bated breath to see if the forthcoming Queen’s speech contains proposals for a Grocery Code Adjudicator.
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Tesco's £1bn gamble? It would have been riskier to do nothing
Facing the UK’s Fourth Estate this week, a cheery Philip Clarke briefly started munching on some Everyday Value grapes as Tesco’s CEO outlined his vision.
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Did Phil answer the big questions?
Considering he was announcing Tesco’s first fall in UK profits for two decades, chief executive Philip Clarke appeared a remarkable relaxed man as he faced the world’s press in London today…