Archive of all comment and opinion articles – Page 485
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Cadbury set to curl it like Beckham
You may have heard of the butterfly effect - the theory that when a bug flaps its wings in, say, Brazil, it sets off a causal chain that results in a hurricane on the other side of the globe. In grocery terms: when a knight of the realm...
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Saturday Essay: Can free market trade ever be fair trade?
Long-term trading relationships with buyers are needed to protect farmers in the developing world, says Guy Watson
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Our man from DRIP
Don Pumsey at the Department of Retail Infrastructure and Pricing
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Second Opinion: Nanny’s no good for our diets
Regulatory ideals are unattainable and breed distrust in government, says Kevin Hawkins
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Critical Eye... watching the Watchdog
I don’t usually get home in time to watch Watchdog but caught the end of this week’s programme (7.30, BBC1, 2 February) just as it launched into an ‘investigation’ into supermarkets. Not that it was much of an investigation. In a move as...
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Editor's Comment: Grocery companies are no longer immune to the downturn
New bosses always paint it black. Whether tacitly, or outspokenly, “it’s going to take time to sort out the mess I inherited”, has been inferred in the utterances of countless new chief executives, supply chain directors or supermarket managers,...
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Third Party: Small can be beautiful when done carefully
Reducing the size of a product offers suppliers and retailers advantages - but there can be pitfalls, warns Dave Timothy
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Third Party: To update packaging, renovate to innovate
If you want to win over shoppers, get rid of fancy and quirky packaging and go back to the basics, says Gillian Wight
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Our man from DRIP
Don Pumsey at the Department of Retail Infrastructure and Pricing
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Guest Editor's Comment: Celebrity chefs risk losing touch
II can’t help feeling the latest series of Channel 4’s Great British Food Fight, while entertaining on one level, is slightly past its sell-by date. Hugh may have changed his tune a bit on Freedom Food, but still wants us to pay a pound more for...
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Saturday Essay: CSR obligations must not take a back seat
Instead of choosing between ethics and cost-cutting, it's vital we find ways to combine the two, says Nick Vermont
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Saturday Essay: Free yourself up to play to your strengths
Outsourcing sales teams in tough economic times allows brands to focus on the essentials, says Peter Butler
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Our man from DRIP
Don Pumsey at the Department of Retail Infrastructure and Pricing
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Editor's Comment: Spayne Lindsay's intriguing new private equity fund
As a result of the recession, there’s a heightened sense of anticipation in every announcement at the moment, good or bad, but C4’s devotion of seemingly its entire late-January schedule to food and drink-based issues is such, to paraphrase the late…
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Critical Eye... on big egos and little chefs
There was loads of must-see TV this week, what with Obama's inauguration speech (and, ahem, the Burnley Tottenham game). But the drama that most grabbed my attention was not the one about remaking America. It was the one about remaking Little Chef.
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Second Opinion: Obama must tackle food agenda
The President must put ecology and health at the heart of food policy, says Tim Lang
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Third Party: Retail media comes of age during recession
When every promotional penny matters, a fast and accurate measure of sales uplift is crucial, says Martin Hayward
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Ad of the Week: Three trees, two dead birds and one confusing commercial
Toilet roll is surely one of the more ironclad categories in a resilient sector - barring some dramatic change of shoppers' bathroom habits or an unlikely evolutionary leap altering our anatomy. Which is lucky for SCA, whose latest Triple...
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Our man from DRIP
Don Pumsey at the Department of Retail Infrastructure and Pricing
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Critical Eye... on the lightweight treatment of a serious problem
I'm not sure it was a good idea to watch Extreme Slimmers (ITV, 9pm, 13 January) in my plump post-Christmas state, but I figured that instead of making me feel worse about my festive excesses, hearing about people with far weightier weight...