All articles by James Halliwell – Page 25
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Analysis & Features
World Cup Report: UK grocery gets ready for kick off
With the World Cup kicking off in June, how are suppliers and retailers preparing to cash in?…
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Comment & Opinion
Secret Eaters: a shameful, miserable excuse for entertainment
Diets often bring out the worst in people…
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Analysis & Features
Is Tesco's food labelling policy completely nuts?
Retailer insists it warns only when there is risk of contamination…
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Analysis & Features
A cut above the rest - five innovative butchers
High-street butchers suffered as customers flocked to the mults, but now some are reinventing the traditional format…
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Analysis & Features
Supplier of the Year 2014
We asked buyers to rate the top suppliers in 20 grocery categories. Here we reveal the 39 branded and own-label winners…
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Comment & Opinion
Pie and mash-up
Behold, the M&S fish and chips pie! Is this a belated April Fool, or the start of a new wave of supermarket NPD?
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Category Report
UK fmcg advertising report 2014
The unstoppable rise of social media has led to a proliferation of highly targeted, personalised advertising. Who are biggest fmcg advertisers in the UK in 2014?
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Comment & Opinion
Spring's Supermarket Secrets: Gregg Wallace explores eggs
Gregg Wallace famously enjoys a swift one-two…
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News
Aldi tops M&S ad spend as discounters target multiples
As Aldi goes head to head with the big four, it’s come within touching distance of matching even Sainsbury’s on ad spend…
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News
Fmcg brands hike ad spend by whopping 62%
The top 100 fmcg brands went big on advertising in 2013, increasing spend by a whopping 61.7%…
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Analysis & Features
Britain's biggest grocery advertisers: it's getting personal
The unstoppable rise of social media has led to a proliferation of highly targeted, personalised advertising…
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Interviews
Jonathan Bye: how he crunched the numbers at Seabrook Crisps
Haemorrhaging sales and losing money, it was crunch time for Seabrook Crisps. Then Jonathan Bye rode to the rescue…
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Analysis & Features
Experiential marketing: the evolution
Plant a dragon skull on a beach and sit back as thrilled consumers generate buzz with smartphones…
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Analysis & Features
Kids come up with cunning food bank plan
A new scheme allows online shoppers to donate half their bogof to a food bank at the click of a button…
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Analysis & Features
The sensory science behind a hit sausage
Reformulating a brand but worried it won’t taste as good as the original? Marketing Sciences can help…
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Interviews
Jack Monroe: The Big Interview
In 2011, single mum Jack Monroe hit rock bottom and attempted suicide. Then she started a blog featuring cheap recipes
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News
Aldi and Lidl step up space race as big four climb down
Aldi looks set to maintain its forward momentum with ambitious plans to step up its store expansion…
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Analysis & Features
Who's played the property game best in the recession?
How have property portfolios evolved since the recession began? And who’s best positioned to cash in on the green shoots?…
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Analysis & Features
Who took the old Woolworths stores?
Almost without exception the vacant Woolworth lots have been filled. Only six of the 807 remain empty. And one sector in particular has piled in….