All Daily Bread articles – Page 119
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Comment and Opinion
Hovis where the hardship is
The latest Hovis ad might help to sell loaves of bread but it’s unlikely to get youngsters rushing into farming. On Sunday night - as 11.4 million viewers tuned in to Britain’s Got Talent to see a dog crowned the most gifted amateur performer in Britain…
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Comment and Opinion
The thick end of the wedge
Just a few weeks ago The Grocer questioned whether the drinks trade had the stomach for a protracted legal battle over minimum pricing…
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Comment and Opinion
Let tweeting dogs lie
BrewDog generates a lot of noise proportional for its size. Given its penchant for ‘crap beer amnesties’ and bottles made from stuffed squirrels, you sometimes wonder whether the main business of the Scots tyro is craft beer, as it claims, or publicity…
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Comment and Opinion
Space race goes into stasis
Justin King was clear on why Sainsbury’s got the impressive results it did - Brand Match.
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Comment and Opinion
King prawns and cocktails
The idea of cocktail-themed seafood jelly shots raised plenty of eyebrows in Grocer Towers (and turned a couple of stomachs) when I wrote about them last week, so I couldn’t wait to try them out myself - and my colleagues…
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Comment and Opinion
A week is a long time in dairy
Last week this column noted how life is rarely dull in dairy. And we got another demonstration today of how quickly things can change in the sector…
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Comment and Opinion
Unilever's design for life
There’s a hint of Marlon Brando about Paul Polman, chief executive of Unilever, which would make him on the surface an unlikely godfather for a subject like sustainability, even if it wasn’t for his position as the head of a global FMCG titan.But Polman has taken another step towards cementing ...
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Comment and OpinionUnilever's design for life
There’s a hint of Marlon Brando about Paul Polman, chief executive of Unilever, making him an unlikely godfather for a subject like sustainability.
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Comment and Opinion
Clarke and the 'what if' factor
Buried on page 18 of the Tesco results presentation was a section on its Japanese operations, with a brutally blunt heading at the top: ‘Discontinued’.
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Comment and OpinionClarke and the ‘what if’ factor
Tesco headed up the section on its Japanese operations with the brutally blunt heading ‘Discontinued’. Not so for the US - yet.
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Comment and Opinion
Cold facts and hard potatoes
GM, it’s fair to say, remains one of the food industry’s hottest political potatoes. Whether it’s stunts against GM wheat, outrage against supposedly GM broccoli or controversy over feed requirements, there are few food-related issues…
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Comment and OpinionCold facts and hot potatoes
Whether it’s stunts against GM wheat, outrage at iffy broccoli or controversy over feed requirements, few issues…
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Comment and Opinion
Did Phil answer the big questions?
Considering he was announcing Tesco’s first fall in UK profits for two decades, chief executive Philip Clarke appeared a remarkable relaxed man as he faced the world’s press in London today…
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Comment and OpinionDid Phil answer the big questions?
Considering he was announcing Tesco’s first fall in UK profits for two decades, chief executive Philip Clarke appeared remarkably relaxed as he faced the world’s press in London.
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Comment and Opinion
Marc Bolland's lucky dip
Ken Livingstone and Marc Bolland are lucky men - both seem to have found millions of pounds down the back of the proverbial sofa…
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Comment and Opinion
Brands on the run
The government today launched its much anticipated consultation into whether to force tobacco manufacturers to remove all branding from their | products in a move it hopes will help reduce the 100,000 deaths a year it says are caused by smoking.
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Comment and Opinion
Tesco's video nation
Yesterday Tesco made the overdue admission that it’s time to freshen up its advertising. Today came further evidence of the chain’s efforts to change the conversation…
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Comment and Opinion
Goodbye, red brick road?
News of yet more upheaval came from Tesco today, as the supermarket giant very publicly invited agencies to pitch for an advertising account worth £110m a year…
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Comment and Opinion
The domino effect
As the grocery trade continues to digest the demise of wholesalers DBC and Eskimo, there were further dispatches today from the doom and gloom department…
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Comment and Opinion
The blue and white stripes bow out
As shoppers rush to stores to buy their souvenir blue-striped Value baked bean tins,the canning of Tesco’s Value range marks the end of an era stretching back almost two decades. It could also mark the start of a blitz of activity from the supermarket giant over the next few weeks…