All articles by Ian Quinn – Page 204
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Analysis & Features
SACN and the war to crush sugar: 10 things you need to know
It’s not just fizzy drinks under fire. SACN and PHE are driving radical demands for slashing sugar across the board…
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Comment & Opinion
BRC rethinks rates rethink
It was good to see MPs in their droves yesterday backing the BRC’s call for a fundamental overhaul of business rates
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News
BRC shelves business rates alternatives proposals
The BRC has shelved its proposals for alternatives to the business rates system, including a radical plan for a new energy tax, after admitting that it is too soon to be suggesting a format for a ready-made replacement.
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News
Tesco claims slimline self-service checkouts slash queue times
Tesco is looking to reduce queuing time in its stores by using smaller self-service checkouts…
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Comment & Opinion
SACN sugar bombshell must be dealt with collaboratively
Rarely can a report seven years in the making have lived up to the hype…
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News
Price war would be 'strategy of decline', says Tesco
Tesco has told shareholders it will resist moves for an all-out price war.
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News
Public Health England attacks fizzy drinks in anti-sugar war
Public Health England declared there was “no reason at all” consumers should drink fizzy drinks…
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News
Tesco cooks up partnership with SORTEDfood online channel
Tesco has partnered with one of the world’s largest social media cookery channels as part of its drive to inspire youngsters to learn more about cooking.
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News
Cut recommended sugar intake by half, says SACN report
The government has been urged to slash the recommended intake of sugar by half in a shock report that could spark a clampdown on fizzy drinks.
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News
New 250-calorie cap on confectionery revealed
Food companies have announced a new cap on calories in confectionery as the sector prepares to come under the cosh in today’s announcements around the impact of sugar on obesity.
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News
Tax sugar and curb marketing of sweet products, say top scientists
Leading scientists have called on the government to launch a package of new measures to target the consumption of added-sugar soft drinks, biscuits, cakes and confectionery
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Comment & Opinion
Sugar Thursday
Traffic-light labelling appears to have fizzled out. Will we ever achieve a universal system?
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News
Co-op to slash sugar from squashes and soft drinks
The Co-operative Food has pledged to remove almost 100 million teaspoons of sugar from its shelves by launching a ‘no added sugar’ High Juice squash range.
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News
Tesco opens Yammer network up to all its employees
Tesco plans to roll out its internal communication tool Yammer to all of its 320,000 UK staff…
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News
Action on Sugar unveils battle plan against obesity
Campaign group Action on Sugar has stepped up its rhetoric with a seven-point plan to tackle childhood obesity – including proposals for a sugar tax
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News
Amanda Sourry takes global hair role at Unilever
Unilever has appointed a new UK & Ireland chairman to replace Amanda Sourry…
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News
Innocent leaps to defence of smoothies with new sugar research
Innocent Drinks this week launched the “case for the defence” of its fruit-based no-added sugar drinks
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News
Britain's best high street competition a 'gimmick'
The government has been accused by of “tinkering around the edges” with “gimmicks” for best high street…
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News
Responsibility Deal report queries drinks industry funding
Representatives of an academic body conducting a government-commissioned review of the Responsibility Deal have launched a damning attack on it.
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News
Tesco kicks off health range with meals-on-wheels service
Tesco is rolling out a restaurant-on-wheels service to support the launch of its new healthy eating range My Fit Lifestyle.