All comment & opinion articles – Page 496
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The public must be reconnected with their food
Sir: Now is the time to connect consumers with their food and milk (‘4.3 million promise to switch…
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LOCOG has trapped us in an Olympic logjam of Y2K proportions
London has been scandalised by the rows of empty seats at this week’s Olympics. Well, what did you expect from the IOC?
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Good With Food had a good run. Now The Co-op must move on
Good With Food has been The Co-op’s strapline for six years. But now the society is mulling possible alternatives.
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ROI for Britain's swingball kings
The media will shortly be thick with chatter about return on investment. How many swingball and knitting medals did we get?
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Celebrate and interact with your team: if they are happy, it will show
While your business objective is not to win awards, used well they can be a potent message and a powerful cause for celebration.
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Pink slime: a crimson tide?
Summer has finally arrived, but what’s on your barbecue?
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Out-of-box packaging experiences
Packaging can now broadcast its own advertising, show you a 3D version of the pack contents in action…
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A slow-burner for Weetabix
Last month Kellogg’s was in hot water with the advertising watchdog over calorie claims relating to its Special K cereal…
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Educating the anti-salt lobby
As someone who has low, not high, blood pressure, I get a little irritated with health charities on a salt reduction crusade.
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As the Olympics begin, time to reflect on grocery's fitness
What an uplifting week. As the Olympics kicks off, the sun is finally shining and the campaigning of dairy farmers has them rivalling Bradley Wiggins for national support.
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The one billion unit pledge
Last week I witnessed something quite unexpected. The Health Select Committee report on the…
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Britvic is in for a squeeze over Fruit Shoot
As I was gasping for a drink on a red hot summer’s day at Alton Towers 12 years ago, a team of samplers…
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Consumers need champions
In my time as retail controller of the Co-operative Wholesale Society (CWS) I was a member of…
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Sports drinks: the facts
We were disappointed by the views expressed in the BBC Panorama programme The Truth About…
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Tales of Titania: Sunshine, Stacey Solomon and pizza love
I’m blissed out on sunshine. Not, alas, in a strappy-sundress-lying-down-in-the-park sort of way.
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Yellow jersey, golden fleece
At just 10 stone and eight pounds, there’s not enough of Brad Wiggins to go round everyone who wants a piece of him…
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Sharp practice, dull shoppers
A few seconds and a bowlful of cookies were all it took to show how meaningless five-a-day claims are in isolation.
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We can trust in the booze industry's ability to adapt
We aren’t a nation of teetotallers yet, but it sure looks like we might be heading that way.
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Minimum alcohol pricing is a big risk
Politicians argue that alcohol abuse and related antisocial behaviour is a big problem and that minimum pricing is the solution.
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What consultation, Asda?
On Saturday last I joined the group Marple in Action in a visit to a consultation exercise at the local…