All comment & opinion articles – Page 448
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After Portas, do the town centre personality test
Despite the cold Easter, visitor numbers rose more than 6% on UK high streets over Good Friday and Easter Saturday…
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Obesity: local authorities may turn more interventionist
On 1 April, responsibility for public health was transferred from the Department of Health to local government…
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Comment & OpinionAirwaves gets the horn in breathy new chewing gum advert
Wrigley would like us to believe Airwaves does wonders for your breath – so here’s an ad based on woodwind instruments!…
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Consider a city-focused export strategy for your premium brand
There is a lack of international ambition in many companies, which really frustrates me…
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Can we expect a little quiet on the farming front?
Could 2013 be a ‘quieter’ one for all those involved in and depending on the output of arable farming?…
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Was Greggs right to shrink its pasties?
It’s enough to make a hardened brickie weep into his paper napkin…
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Steve Parfett hails wholesale security success story
Criminal activity increases during difficult economic times and this has been borne out by our experience since 2008…
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Thatcher's influence on the PR world lives on
This may be a surprise to anyone at the old fogey end of The Grocer readership, but I don’t remember Margaret Thatcher…
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Victoria Wood skirts the ultimate tea question
Like most Brits, I love a cup of tea. The first bunches of leaves arrived on our glorious shores in 1662…
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Comment & OpinionNo finish line in sight
Sticking your neck out can be a perilous occupation. Not 24 hours ago, we invited readers to take stock and reflect on the horsemeat scandal so far, three months on…
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Comment & OpinionHorsemeat, three months on
Nearly three months ago, the proverbial hit the fan. Tests by the Food Safety Authority of Ireland revealed horse DNA in some frozen burgers (and subsequently in pretty much everything else), unleashing a wave of tests and investigations across the EU…
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Comment & OpinionElla's big decision
Ever since those nice young chaps at Innocent Drinks sold a controlling stake in their smoothie-making business to Coca-Cola, Ella’s Kitchen founder Paul Lindley has become something of the poster boy for the ethical grocery start-up generation…
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Comment & OpinionSmart Somersby spot puts the app into apple
Somersby cider’s first major ad push is one of those great ideas that seems obvious in retrospect…
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Comment & OpinionFinancial agility is key for modern account managers
The ability to use numbers can persuasively transform your results…
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Pro the badger cull: NFU on why we have to act
The latest TB incidence figures make for sobering reading…
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Against the badger cull: opposing could boost organics
According to the Soil Association, organic product sales fell 1.5% in the UK in 2012 after a 3.7% fall in 2011…
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Ella's overseas success shows why British brands are best
I was pleased to read about Ella’s Kitchen’s sales surge in international markets…
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Competitive chilli eaters leave Titania cold
There is a group of men – idiots? – who believe that the hotter a chilli sauce is, the better…
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Time for supermarkets to take part in grown-up conversations
With the horsemeat scandal finally off the front pages, the whole issue of food mislabelling is back with a vengeance…
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Cook Me The Money: strange, tired TV that undermined itself
Does it get any worse than the terrestrial channels on weekday mornings?…