Archive of all comment and opinion articles – Page 492
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Comment & Opinion
Our man from DRIP
Don Pumsey at the Department of Retail Infrastructure and Pricing
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Comment & Opinion
Opinion: FSA's Smith will need a deft touch
Tim Smith, the new FSA chief executive offers hope of a less polarised, more collaborative approach to food regulation. Delicately and obliquely acknowledging some of its mistakes, he is keen to build consensus. He also promised to stick...
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Comment & Opinion
Our man from DRIP
Don Pumsey at the Department of Retail Infrastructure and Pricing
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Comment & Opinion
Our man from DRIP
Don Pumsey at the Department of Retail Infrastructure and Pricing
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Comment & Opinion
Our man from DRIP
Don Pumsey at the Department of Retail Infrastructure and Pricing
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Comment & Opinion
Our man from DRIP
Don Pumsey at the Department of Retail Infrastructure and Pricing
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Comment & Opinion
Our man from DRIP
Don Pumsey at the Department of Retail Infrastructure and Pricing
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Comment & Opinion
It's time buyers learnt new tricks
In an era of global food crisis, buyers must stop driving British farming into bankruptcy with their obsession with low pricesWhen supermarket bosses are invited to 11 Downing Street for briefings on food prices, suppliers need...
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Comment & Opinion
Tackle availability or lose millions in missed sales
Kimberly-Clark has put its weight behind solving the issue of availability - a problem that could be worth more than £40m to the trade in lost sales of productsRetailers know that disappointed shoppers faced with empty shelves not only...
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Comment & Opinion
Our man from DRIP
Don Pumsey at the Department of Retail Infrastructure and Pricing
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Comment & Opinion
Opinion - "The upheaval in our 2007 Power List reflects just how much price has become the elephant in the room"
Power. Shakespeare had a word or two on the subject. So, by way of introduction, here's the opening quatrain of Sonnet 94. "They that have power to hurt and will do none/That do not do the thing they most do show/Who, moving others, are themselves...
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Comment & Opinion
Our man from DRIP
Don Pumsey at the Department of Retail Infrastructure and Pricing
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Comment & Opinion
First rumblings of a price battle
The difference between the changes in input and on-shelf prices is at its highest level this decade, which could affect margin forecasts and even prompt a battle on priceFood price inflation has been an issue for the industry for a while...
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Comment & Opinion
Our man from DRIP
Don Pumsey at the Department of Retail Infrastructure and Pricing
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Comment & Opinion
Our man from DRIP
Don Pumsey at the Department of Retail Infrastructure and Pricing
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Comment & Opinion
Our man from DRIP
Don Pumsey at the Department of Retail Infrastructure and Pricing
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Comment & Opinion
The time is over for easy answers
Sorting out the global food crisis is not about helping developing countries; it's about accepting that the UK is part of the problemSmoke signals from last week's Downing Street food security seminar highlighted Whitehall thinking but...
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Comment & Opinion
Our man from DRIP
Don Pumsey at the Department of Retail Infrastructure and Pricing
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Comment & Opinion
Could GM be the solution to our global food crisis?
With world food prices rising as a result of growing global demand, perhaps it is time to accept the potential of GM technologiesWho could have foreseen this time last year that one of the issues topping the G8 summit agenda would be...
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Comment & Opinion
Invest in GM, not in niche markets
Tim Lang wants a new sustainable food policy. His thinking is that compliance will follow. It won'tEveryone seems to agree the era of "cheap food" is over. So how will we cope? All those suburban dilettantes who used to condemn...