All Daily Bread articles – Page 126
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Comment and Opinion
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 and Opinion
White 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 and Opinion
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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Northern's Irish bailout
Most of the time, Jerry Marwood leaving Spar would be the big story of the day.
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Comment and Opinion
Andy's Christmas carol
After a rollercoaster year, it seems quite a while since Asda was flying.
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Comment and Opinion
Marc's masterplan
Today we got our first real glimpse of what Marks & Spencer will look like under Marc Bolland. And the early signs are… not that different.
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Comment and Opinion
Away with the Fairies
While organic struggled and brands promoted themselves towards oblivion, Fairtrade proved surprisingly hardy during the recession. Some principles, it seemed, were non-negotiable.
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Two Harts are better than one
When Mike Davies in May announced his departure from Thorntons, it was amid the clatter of profits warnings.
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Dunn and dusted
The best double-act since the original Gold Blend couple have officially called it day.
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Comment and Opinion
Diageo's Champagne moment
Today one of Diageo’s many overseas interests hit the acquisition trail, with East African Breweries splashing out $60m on rival Serengeti. But the Guinness brewer has rather bigger fish to fry on the deal markets.
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Comment and Opinion
Vlad the Enabler
Premier Foods needed some good news. Tesco has just de-listed a raft of Hovis lines, it’s in the kind of debt that would give George Osborne nightmares – and to compound things, the company is getting a visit from a bunch of The Grocer’s top hacks later this week.
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Comment and Opinion
Lucky dip or double dip
For politicos, pundits and number crunchers, yesterday’s Comprehensive Spending Review was a dream.
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Comment and Opinion
Charity, clarity and a flamingo-tinged ringmaster
So the trophies are safely atop fireplaces, the tuxedos at the dry cleaners and the hangovers (mostly) subsided.
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Comment and Opinion
Marmite's brave new world
Love it or hate it, you can’t ignore it. Marmite seems to be everywhere at the moment.
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Comment and Opinion
Calling International Rescue
Few of us could fail to be moved by the heart-warming pictures of the 33 Chilean miners as they were reunited with their loved ones after 69 days trapped underground.
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Comment and Opinion
And for my next trick...
Taking the industry by surprise is something Charles Wilson, chief executive of cash & carry giant Booker, has got rather good at.
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Comment and Opinion
Running to stand still
Two sets of data arrived in The Grocer’s inbox this afternoon.
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Comment and Opinion
The best comeback since Lazarus
Never go back, they say. That truism is given the lie by the triumphant homecoming of Iceland founder Malcolm Walker.
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Comment and Opinion
You can take the man out of Morrisons...
You can take the man out of Morrisons, it seems, but you can’t take the Morrisons out of the man.