All The Grocer articles in 22 June 2002 – Page 4
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It's hard to imagine Tesco without Terry Leahy. But it could so easily have happened, as one of my colleagues was startled to discover this week. He was attending the Swedish government's Food Chain conference not the sort of place you would...
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And so on to the ACS Annual Conference held, not in an exotic seaside location, but Britain's second city Birmingham. The gala dinner was held in the oddly named Council House a sumptuously decorated municipal building with chairman Mike Bowen...
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Did you know that after five minutes at -28deg C, the hairs in your nostrils start to freeze up, along with anything else that is exposed to the intense cold? I share this detail with you after visiting Christian Salvesen's new automated frozen...
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My thanks this week go to agriculture minister Nick Brown for hosting a splendid media party at MAFF's Smith Square offices. The minister clutching a glass of organic gin, in breach of his New Year's resolution was in jocular mood. "Welcome,...
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Pity the Blair baby didn't arrive on Tuesday evening. That way those of us who crammed into a posh Park Lane hotel for the CBI dinner might have been spared Tony Blair's impression of Rory Bremner impersonating Tony Blair. Given the tabloid and tv...
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It's official, our esteemed leader is retiring, but not until next June and the eulogies have already started. The first one, 11 months and 21 days before the sad event, was at the Food from Scotland Excellence Awards dinner in Edinburgh. The...
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I read in The Sun where else? that Tesco has hired a seven year old boy to explain the Pokémon craze to them. Laurie Sleator for it is he gives his unique briefings in return for Pokémon goodies (and, I assume, a bodyguard to see ...
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While visiting Amsterdam in the interests of research Albert Heijn has some state-of-the-art concept stores there, honest I was told one of the UK's leading drinks buyers was moving on. But Chinese whispers being what they are, I thought it...
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The impeccably coiffured Elizabeth Edwards, UK marketing manager of Twinings tea, caused rather a frisson at the first Food and Drink Federation organic forum last week, reports a colleague. Her confession she was feeling "rather delicate" after a...
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The cast seems to change every year, but the Booker Prize for Excellence 2001 at the Park Lane Hilton was the usual glittering affair. Instead of Stuart Rose (Malcolm Walker didn't even hang around long enough to make one appearance) Bill Grimsey...
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One enduring image from the foot and mouth crisis has been the sight of grocery spokespersons hurrying in and out of tv and radio studios in a bid to enlighten uninformed broadcasting hacks and manic DJs-turned-almost-serious-presenters about the...
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The National Farmers' Union gave journalists attending its press conference in London this week a firm dose of motherly love. As we arrived for the mid-morning session, president Ben Gill was on hand with a silver salver of bacon sandwiches. Not a...
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I'm sure I wasn't the only one to enjoy seeing the repeat this week of the infamous BBC tv programme where Sainsbury's Dino Adriano went back to the shopfloor. Who could forget the sight of Dino wrapped up in that extremely snug polyester uniform?...
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Some coincidences are too good to miss. The National Pig Award breakfast this week, as speakers kept reminding their audience, happened to take place during British Sausage Appreciation Week. From the platform, I noticed that farm minister Nick...
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I couldn't help but notice two contrasting management styles this week. At the Diageo finals chief executive Paul Walsh was honest and open but essentially not saying much about his plans to take over and carve up Seagram. At a Seagram...
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Into deepest Warwickshire on Monday to join the muck and nettles brigade at the farmers' annual love-in, the Royal Show. Drove my battered mini into the meadow which doubled as a car park, and felt entirely out of place alongside the Range Rovers,...
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The grocery industry's supreme efforts to get food supplies back on track after the fuel crisis threw up a few interesting instore sights last weekend. A colleague was busy hunting bread and milk at a Tesco in West Sussex (well even responsible...
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Funny thing, e-mail. You are sitting at your desk minding your own business when a message from the Food Standards Agency pops up (which you ignore, of course). The next, you get another message entitled Error, error, error'. Intrigued, you read...
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Wild horses wouldn't persuade me to reveal the name of the well known UK supermarket executive that I spotted snoozing on a bench at Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport on Saturday evening. He was there at 5pm when I flew in and still snoring away on...
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So how are ya'll? Sorry about the clipped vernacular, but I've just jetted back across the pond after a couple of days being brainwashed at Wal-Mart's annual razzmatazz shareholders bash in sleepy downtown Bentonville in deepest Arkansas. That's...