Long reads – Page 318
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Analysis & FeaturesAs inflation dips, will rising grain prices spoil the party?
Fears about high grain prices pushing up the cost of food were back on the agenda this week after unusually dry weather in the US.
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Analysis & FeaturesSport sponsors head promo table in run-up to the Games
Sport sponsorship is playing a big role in shaping the promotional landscape this summer.
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Analysis & Features
History of brands: the 1860s
As Britain quietly capitalised on the Industrial Revolution that had defined the first half of the century, the 1860s was a period of stability for Britain - at least, compared with other nations.
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Analysis & FeaturesHalifax recycling plant a giant leap for carton makers
Currently, all our drinks cartons are recycled overseas, but a new plant is the next step for an industry that is making good progress.
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Analysis & FeaturesNFU takes supermarkets to task over CSR commitments
Which supermarkets are staying truest to their CSR pledges?
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History of Brands: the 1910s
It was a decade of tensions. As well as jingoistic foreign policy, riots and strikes were accompanied by prolonged and public unrest from the Suffragette movement.
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Analysis & FeaturesCraft works
In the thick of recession the brewing giants are struggling. So why is craft beer - at double the price of standard lager and with ‘mega’ margins of up to 50% - proving such a hit?
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History of brands: the 1870s
Imperialism was the watchword in the 1870s. As the fledgling Irish home rule movement gathered pace, Britain was busy overseas.
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Analysis & Features
History of brands: the 1880s
Though some brands had come and gone by the 1880s, in terms of the brands we buy today the 1860s and 1870s were largely empty space, punctuated by the occasional star.
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History of brands: the 1890s
As the empire thrived, Britain became better connected. Phones to Paris. The Manchester Ship Canal. And in 1899, Guglielmo Marconi transmitted a radio signal over the Channel.
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Analysis & Features
History of brands: the 1900s
Although vast numbers of Britons remained below the poverty line, living standards for employed workers had greatly improved by the 1900s.
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History of brands: the 1920s
In the so-called roaring 1920s, Britain got back to business.
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Analysis & Features
History of brands: the 1930s
Following the crash of 1929, optimism was in short supply, and the 1930s were strained by increasing political tension as unemployment rose from 1.5 million in January 1930 to three million by January 1933.
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Analysis & Features
History of brands: the 1940s
Andrex toilet tissue (1942), first used in hospitals, was one of the very few brands to emerge while World War II was in full swing.
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Analysis & Features
History of brands: the 1950s
The hangover from World War II was felt well into the 1950s, with rationing, national service and Churchill’s return to government (in 1951) the most obvious signs.
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Analysis & Features
History of brands: the 1960s
The swinging 1960s was a period of creativity and self-expression, with the shackles thrown off when National Service ended in 1960.
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History of brands: the 1970s
The 1970s was a decade of upheaval, as strikes took an unprecedented toll on the running of the country.
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History of brands: the 1980s
Margaret Thatcher was determined to break the unions when she came to office as Britain’s first female prime minister in 1979.
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History of brands: the 1990s
After the excesses of the late 1980s, boom turned to bust in Thatcher’s Britain. The recession coincided with the arrival, in 1990, of several new discounters.
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History of brands: the 2000s
As a new millennium dawned, predictions of a ‘Y2K’ software meltdown turned out to be overstated. The foot and mouth crisis of 2001 was anything but.