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Analysis & Features
Promo Dynamic: Sainsbury’s dominates in price deals
The price war may be hotting up, but it doesn’t seem to have reached as far as supermarkets’ prime promotional spots, where activity was subdued at the weekend
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Analysis & Features
Work-life balance is the top career goal for generation Y
Work-life balance used to be a minority interest - important to recent graduates and working mothers with children, but scorned by most employees. Until recently, the workplace was dominated by baby boomers - the generation born between the...
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Analysis & Features
Let's get Sunny D right, says Fredj
Few brands have had as much opprobrium heaped on them as the former Sunny Delight. Who can forget the hysteria over the toddler who turned orange when she drank too much of the stuff? Things haven't got off to a shining start for Sunny...
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Analysis & Features
Blueheath: is it waving or drowning?
The devil was in the detail of online wholesaler Blueheath's recent annual results statement. Geoff Igharo and Julian Hunt report Casual readers of the upbeat annual results statement issued a couple of weeks ago by online wholesaler...
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Analysis & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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...
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Reports
Grocer Salary Survey - Analysis
Downloadable version of the Salary Survey that featured in the 18th Jauary 2003 Issue of The Grocer
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Reports
The Grocer's Review 2002
Here are The Grocer`s definitive, end-of-year grocery charts. This special 63-page feature kicks off with 56 pages detailing what`s hot and what`s not at the topselling end of grocery. Produced in partnership with Information Resources, everything from bagged snacks to toiletries is put under the microscope. Wherever possible, tables show ...