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Analysis and Features
The renaissance man
A year into the role, Guy Farrant is living his dream as director of food at Marks & Spencer.
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Analysis and Features
What do these fourhave in common ?
What do furniture and cars have to do with efficient consumer response? Good question and one that the most lateral-thinking ECR Europe conference to date gamely attempted to answer in Stockholm last week. Smoke machines, flashy graphics...
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Analysis and Features
Welcome to the blogosphere
A couple of years ago hardly anybody seemed to know what a blog was. Now they are rife: the internet is awash with the personal opinions, sometimes controversial and often mundane, of bloggers. The interactive nature of the online medium means...
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Analysis and Features
friends or foes?
When 10 new member states joined the European Union in May 2004, it was hailed as a golden opportunity for UK businesses. Jim Dougal, head of the European Commission in the UK, said at the time that the creation of a single market of 455 million...
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Analysis and Features
the golden state of things to come
Scattered around the Californian state capital Sacramento are photographs of governor Arnold Schwarzenegger - not in typical electoral pose, but sitting astride a Harley Davidson, leather clad and complete with dark sunglasses. For some...