Archive of all comment and opinion articles – Page 460
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Third Party: Olympic opportunity is too good to pass up
Companies expecting the Games to have no impact will miss out – there’s much business to be had, says Danielle Pinnington. According to Deloitte's Games Readiness report released last week, more than two-thirds of UK companies are expecting no impact on their businesses from the 2012 Olympics. And 70% of ...
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Second Opinion: Promotions can be force for good
While they may dilute consumer loyalty, deals can help drive up case values, says Clive Black. There may be a paradox in the actions of the food retailers and their rhetoric. We have heard several retail magnates talk of their discomfort at the level of promotional activity in the UK ...
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Saturday Essay: Five-year plan for environmental salvation
Working with farmers, PepsiCo intends to radically reduce water use and carbon emissions by 2015, says David Wilkinson. An economically and environmentally sustainable UK farming industry is vital to a prosperous future for the food industry and increasingly important to consumers. Farmers understand the land they work better than anyone and, by regularly visiting their farms and listening to what they tell us, we are able to gain insights that allow us to work in partnership and improve both sustainability and business practices…
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Editor's Comment: Next week's interims mark a new era for Marc & Spencer
Timing is everything and nothing. Certainly Marc Bolland's timing looked as immaculate as his suits when he quit Morrisons a year ago to join Marks & Spencer.
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Careers File: How to help out your contacts and yourself
My telephone rang recently with a call from an ex-colleague whom I had not heard from for more than 10 years. He said he was interested in catching up. My (correctly) intuitive response was to ask him when he'd lost his job. I said I would help him...
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Tales of Titania: The magic number is 17.65
Think of a number, any number. Ask this question in any PR agency and I guarantee the first number anyone thinks of will be 17.65.
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Away with the Fairies
While organic struggled and brands promoted themselves towards oblivion, Fairtrade proved surprisingly hardy during the recession. Some principles, it seemed, were non-negotiable.
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Two Harts are better than one
When Mike Davies in May announced his departure from Thorntons, it was amid the clatter of profits warnings.
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Johnson’s pioneers the grope on a rope
Here's the latest innovation in outdoor advertising: nailing three attractive women to a billboard to be groped by passers-by. Johnson's did just that for its 24-Hour Moisture lotion outside the Westfield shopping centre, with one bemused...
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Tales of Titania: Happy national stress day!
I'm sure you usually turn straight to this page of The Grocer so you may have missed the best story of last week, the six-month-early April Fool appointment of Bruno Fromage as UK MD of Danone Dairy.
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Second Opinion: Give us confidence in the future
Deregulation is vital if the private sector is to create thousands of new jobs, says Kevin Hawkins
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Third Party: Legislation will force brands to think harder
The OFT’s new standards should help cut unhelpful promo wars – and make marketing more clever, says Becky Munday
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Careers File: Recruiting positive thinkers is a big boost for business
Anyone involved in the recruitment process, be they an employer or a professional recruiter, knows what a potential minefield it can be.
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Critical Eye... on why brevity is better than wit
Why oh why are so many food and drink programmes an hour long these days? It's as if their makers think it turns them into the equivalent of broadsheets to the half-hour formats' red tops even though they've actually got no more than 10 minutes...
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Editor's Comment: Promotions mean availability is a bigger issue than ever
Hams Hall, the Sainsbury's DC, is still inextricably linked for me with the availability issues that cost the hapless Peter Davis his job.
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Saturday Essay: The high street has hit a watershed moment
Transfer of planning power to councils could backfire if town centre development is not prioritised
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Dunn and dusted
The best double-act since the original Gold Blend couple have officially called it day.
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Diageo's Champagne moment
Today one of Diageo’s many overseas interests hit the acquisition trail, with East African Breweries splashing out $60m on rival Serengeti. But the Guinness brewer has rather bigger fish to fry on the deal markets.
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Vlad the Enabler
Premier Foods needed some good news. Tesco has just de-listed a raft of Hovis lines, it’s in the kind of debt that would give George Osborne nightmares – and to compound things, the company is getting a visit from a bunch of The Grocer’s top hacks later this week.
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Second Opinion: Spending review will mean a wider skills gap
The future workforce needs dignity and good pay as well as qualifications, says Tim Lang