All Daily Bread articles – Page 117
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Comment and Opinion
It's all cyclical for Andy Bond
It wasn’t quite as dramatic as James Bond pushing the Queen out of a helicopter over the Olympic Park. But a startling cameo by Andy Bond in today’s Telegraph was still well worth a look…
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Comment and Opinion
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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Comment and Opinion
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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Comment and Opinion
The lazy games
Yesterday Daily Bread flagged up research showing Britons couldn’t care less where their food comes from. Today we found out why…
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Comment and Opinion
Food insecurity
The amount of noise being generated over dairy production might suggest otherwise, but Brits don’t care about where their food comes from. That’s the finding, anyway, of a recent report for the European Commission on attitudes towards “food security, food quality and the countryside”.
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Comment and Opinion
All's fair in love and dairy
Shoppers spent just shy of €5bn on Fairtrade goods last year – up 12% on the previous year. That was also the rate growth in the UK, which remains the biggest market for the ethical kitemark…
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Comment and Opinion
If the cap fits...
A few days ago a host of respectable news sources, and the Daily Mail, were hoaxed by a video - admittedly, one that was pretty well made - purporting to show a giant leap in packaging by Coca-Cola.
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Comment and Opinion
Pint taken, says Paice
One popular movie magazine has a strand of quick-fire interviews called How Much is a Pint of Milk? The idea is to find out whether the stars of the silver screen have their feet on the ground or their head in the clouds…
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Comment and Opinion
Dixon's next trick
Taking over a business where like-for-like sales are falling by more than 6% is not an enviable task…
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Comment and Opinion
Click and connect
Over the weekend, FT.com’s Robert Shrimsley - whose column is modestly sub-headed ‘the national conversation’ - riffs at considerable length on his emotional separation from ‘Ocado man’…
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Comment and Opinion
Kellogg's crying over spilt milk
As another dairy processor today cut the price paid to its farmers, Kellogg’s was also left crying over spilt milk.
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Comment and Opinion
Out of pocket, out of love
The thing about London buses is that you’re never quite sure if they’ll turn up at all. On the other hand, there was a grim inevitability about today’s news that first Dairy Crest and then Arla would follow Robert Wiseman’s lead in cutting the farmgate price of milk…
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Comment and Opinion
Live fast, die young
So Euro 2012 is done and dusted and, for today at least, a nation turns its hungry eyes to SW19 in the hope that Britain’s brave Andy Murray doesn’t become Scottish flop Andy Murray again…
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Comment and Opinion
Fifteen minutes of Jamies fame
Is Jamie Oliver the Andy Warhol of food? Probably not. It’s unlikely he’ll immortalise Yeo Valley the way Warhol did Campbell’s soup, but at the very least he’ll guarantee the yoghurt brand, along with Uncle Ben’s rice, 15 minutes of fame…
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Comment and Opinion
Ocado's summer od discontent
Ocado has confirmed its new finance chief, with former Fitness First beancounter-in-chief Duncan Tatton-Brown taking up the position, as widely reported yesterday.
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Comment and Opinion
A Penny for your thoughts, Dalton?
Questions are sure to resurface over Morrisons’ top table with the news that Richard Pennycook is heading for…
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Comment and Opinion
Penny for your thoughts, Dalton?
At Morrisons’ Q1 results in May chief executive Dalton Philips described as “baloney” any suggestion that there were any issues with Morrisons senior team…
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Comment and Opinion
The best that Mac can get?
Procter & Gamble today issued its second profits warning in as many months, cutting sales and earnings for the coming quarter and the year as a whole.
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Comment and Opinion
The best that Mac can get
Procter & Gamble today issued its second profits warning in as many months. The consumer goods giant, whose portfolio includes Gillette, Head & Shoulders and Duracell, cut forecasts for sales and earnings for the coming quarter and the year as a whole…