All Daily Bread articles – Page 117

  • Comment & Opinion

    Jolly Roger

    2013-01-24T14:56:00Z

    At one stage it looked like he might be stuck there forever, but Greggs CEO Ken McMeikan finally got the green light to leave for wholesaler Brakes this morning…

  • Comment & Opinion

    Taking responsibility

    2013-01-23T14:53:00Z

    Any lingering thoughts that health secretary Jeremy Hunt has taken on Andrew Lansley’s mantle as Mr Responsibility Deal were put to bed yesterday, as food and drink companies were left in no doubt who the new person on the block is…

  • Comment & Opinion

    Bringing home the Tacon

    2013-01-21T14:50:00Z

    The Grocer spoke to Christine Tacon this morning, a.k.a. the newly appointed - and long awaited - Groceries Code Adjudicator.

  • Comment & Opinion

    Horses for cources

    2013-01-17T14:47:00Z

    ‘I phoned up Tesco this morning to find out the price of their beef burgers. They said 14/1.’

  • Comment & Opinion

    Horse trading

    2013-01-16T15:23:00Z

    With Twitter finally running out of horse-related puns, it’s time to start asking questions about the wider, longer-term implications of the horse meat burger contamination scandal…

  • Comment & Opinion

    The big freeze

    2013-01-15T12:03:00Z

    Heron Foods has notched up another year of sparkling results. The frozen food discounter, which has 170 stores across the north of England and the Midlands, saw its profits rise 15% to £8.1m…

  • Comment & Opinion

    Facing the music

    2013-01-14T10:09:00Z

    Hi Spirits brand Antica Sambuca had its knuckles rapped last week in a ruling that should give any business using social media (and who doesn’t these days?) pause for thought.

  • Comment & Opinion

    Guess who's back!

    2013-01-10T10:06:00Z

    It’s a year almost to the day since Philip Clarke issued Tesco’s first profit warning in two decades.

  • Comment & Opinion

    The GM detox

    2013-01-08T15:13:00Z

    There was much to admire in Mark Lynas’s speech about his personal journey from anti-GM campaigner to GM advocate at the Oxford Farming Conference last week…

  • Comment & Opinion

    Morrisons got talent?

    2013-01-07T15:10:00Z

    As expected Morrisons reported a rather gloomy Christmas with like for like sales down 2.5% for the six weeks to 30 December.

  • Comment & Opinion

    Slipped discs

    2013-01-03T15:08:00Z

    This Christmas, my wife surprised me with a shiny, new iPad.

  • Comment & Opinion

    Going cold turkey

    2013-01-02T13:12:00Z

    And we’re back. Well for us at Grocer Towers that is the case, but for many in the industry Christmas and New Year is not only the busiest time of the year but also the most critical in terms of sales.

  • Comment & Opinion

    Don't blame retailers for the Christmas crime wave

    2012-12-20T13:56:00Z

    The police have been getting quite political of late and it’s not just former Tory chief whips who appear to be in the firing line…

  • Comment & Opinion

    Value for money?

    2012-12-18T14:04:00Z

    Several newspapers have run stories this week about own brand budget lines getting more expensive at the supermarkets

  • Comment & Opinion

    Warcabinet

    2012-12-17T14:09:00Z

    With hopes of the nation’s economic recovery on a knife edge, just how far the government will go come the New Year to try to force up alcohol prices…

  • Comment & Opinion

    A WKD is for life

    2012-12-13T14:17:00Z

    Beverage Brands is in the doghouse right now.

  • Comment & Opinion

    Full beam ahead

    2012-12-11T14:36:00Z

    Shares in Diageo were down by nearly 2% this morning after the drinks giant confirmed it had ended long-running talks to acquire tequila brand Jose Cuervo…

  • Comment & Opinion

    Thank you Mr Paterson

    2012-12-10T14:50:00Z

    Let’s be frank: Owen Paterson didn’t exactly have a dream start when he took over as Defra secretary of state after the reshuffle…

  • Comment & Opinion

    Escalating problems

    2012-12-06T15:07:00Z

    How many more organisations, businesses and MPs must raise their voices against the annual increase…

  • Comment & Opinion

    Fresh & not so Easy

    2012-12-05T15:10:00Z

    It’s a long way from South Queensferry to Los Angeles and there’s not a lot in common if truth be told, apart from a suspension bridge.