All comment & opinion articles – Page 502
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Comment & Opinion
Will Diageo swallow Yankee spirit?
Chances to stock up on Christmas booze may have been thwarted by the weather, but one company with a new opportunity to bolster its drinks cabinet is Diageo.
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Third Party: Give seasonal e-marketing a personal touch
Retailers must tailor their emails to consumers’ needs – and money-off vouchers won’t hurt either, says Richard Evans
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Comment & OpinionCritical Eye... on Nigel's soothing enthusiasm
Nigel Slater is the epitome of uncool. He looks like a maiden aunt, speaks so slowly it could easily be deemed patronising and the programme logo with its lower-case N and three-flame shaped Ss well, it's just embarrassing (and with its...
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Saturday Essay: Get connected, your community needs you!
The big society is coming to life with the concept of Business Connectors linking up to local charities, says Gwynn Burr
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Comment & OpinionEditor's Comment: What kind of a chocolate factory is Kraft going to run?
With a nice Brit presenting the case for Kraft this week at the first media briefing since its acquisition of Cadbury in February, journalists found it hard to portray Cadbury as having been gobbled up by nasty, predatory Americans.
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Careers File: Celebrate a new job, but plan your first weeks
So, you've just been offered a great new job. What do you do now? Celebrate? Sit back, relax in the knowledge that all your hard work has paid off and wait for your first day?
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Comment & OpinionTales of Titania: Prince Andrew plays swapsies
Very disappointed not to make it into leaked diplomatic dispatches following my work on the 'Leading British Food Out Of The Recession' export roadshow with Prince Andrew.
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The snow must go on
Whether you're marooned at home or smugly sitting at your desk wondering what all the fuss is about, it won’t have escaped your notice that there’s a bit of snow around. Or rather, a lot.
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Whiteout
There’s been a spot of bad weather today round The Grocer’s Gatwick command bunker, which means the magazine is running with something of a skeleton staff.
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Comment & OpinionWhite Paper, not carte blanche
Andrew Lansley today outlined what he called a “radical shift” in the way we tackle public health challenges.
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Comment & OpinionTales of Titania: Witchcraft, water and women scorned
Imagine a lady forthright, imposing, statuesque, made up to the nines, booming voice and brooking no argument and you have the identikit PR diva traditionally at the helm of the UK’s PR agencies.
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Second Opinion: Help needed for uncertain future
Government should focus on aiding export markets and business finance, says Kevin Hawkins
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Comment & OpinionCritical Eye... on the water purer than Jesus
Humans discovered water in 1974, when an undersea pipeline in Hawaii found not oil but H20. Now Mahalo, marketed as older than Jesus and twice as pure, is sold to Japan's thirsty masses at 10 times the price of what they were originally looking...
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Saturday Essay: This nice little FSA earner will close plants
Consumers can forget ‘local‘ meat if abattoirs are hit with a hefty rise in hygiene inspection costs, says Norman Bagley
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Careers File: Young talent is out there, now go and track it down
Over the past few years this magazine, along with almost every other food and horticultural trade journal we subscribe to, has featured lots of articles and comments from observers puzzling as to how they are going to attract the 'bright new talent' that their industries will need to thrive and ...
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Editor's Comment: Brown paper cigarette packs is a crazy idea
Smoking is a filthy habit. This is not the opinion of The Grocer. It's mine, and I would not be able to look myself in the mirror if I didn't preface my defence of the industry against Andrew Lansley's proposed new measures with that...
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Third Party: Why the big society can be big for business
Brands that focus their marketing activity at a local level – à la big society – could reap real rewards, says Nick Davies
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Brash and Brasher
In retail there’s no such thing as a Christmas ceasefire. Except for the day itself, of course, when most of us are too stuffed to move, the festive season is when the fighting is at its fiercest.
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Tangerine top in UK-owned sweets
Sir, I read with interest your article 'Scooby snacks all round thanks to licensing deal' (The Grocer, 6 November). Of particular note was the inaccurate claim made by Swizzels Matlow that declares it is the 'UK's biggest...