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All The Grocer articles in 22 June 2002 – Page 5
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Bogof's week
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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Bogof's week
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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Bogof's week
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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Bogof's week
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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Bogof's week
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...
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Bogof's week
Shadowing our editor, I jetted across the pond this week to New York's Fancy Food bash. As usual, he lapped up the Champers in first class while I had my usual cheap, cheap economy ticket. Still, he did slip me a stale croissant. Mind you, at least...
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Bogof's week
Once upon a time, long, long ago, England had a decent cricket team and it was worth spending a couple of days at Lord's for the extra special battle with the Aussies. Nowadays? Ah well... Still, that didn't stop many of grocery's greats dumping...
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Bogof's Week
It was reassuring to note I was not the only one to be intrigued by the Food Standards Agency's natty logo, which looks to all intents and purposes like two forks on a green plate. Some of those at this week's launch demanded FSA head Sir John...
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Bogof's week
Phew! I'm still catching my breath from the Grocer's Great Trolley Race at the weekend. Don't think the Imperial War Museum at Duxford knew what had hit it. Great backdrop to hold an event like that. As we raced round the track a few guys were...
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Bogof's week
While I've been wading knee deep in my wellies through the last week's rainy season, my colleagues have been off to slightly more pleasant climes across Europe. Over in Denmark, a colleague went to a huge banking hall in central Copenhagen that has...
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BOGOF'S WEEK
Although my life is one constant whirl of hectic social activity (all in the name of work, you understand) I do occasionally like to put my feet up and relax. So my thanks to those lovely people at the absurdly named PriceWaterhouseCoopers for...
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Bogof's week
Nice to see Mr Vandevelde and his posse of M&S directors modelling the latest in M&S's menswear at the M&S interim results presentation this week. When they stood up to reveal the shirts and ties under the smart suits, I was a little worried that...
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Bogof's week
You could tell BBC anchorman Michael Buerk was happy in his work at the IGD convention by the way he laid into some of the speakers. Particularly the marketers among them. And Labour spin meister Philip Gould. Buerk told the audience whenever...
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Bogof's week
This is the time of year when half of grocery appears to wander around in a haze as the seasonal bashes take their toll. But our vote for the whackiest and best of all the Christmas bunfights goes to the Irish Food Board (Bord Bía) who staged a...
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Bogof's week
I am constantly amazed at the way in which the boffins at food and drink companies come up with whizzy new gizmos that even we didn't know were necessary to make our lives easier. This year's Wimbledon tennis championships is not an obvious place...
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Bogof's week
One of the highlights of our trip to SIAL is always the first night bash laid on by Food from Britain. That's the occasion when nearly 200 food folk pack into the UK pavilion, gorge themselves on British delicacies and sup enough to make even the...
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Bogof's week
OK, so twelfth night is here, but memories of the festive bashes linger. My eardrums still ache from the pounding they received at the IGD's whacky Glitter Ball. The sound system at that Park Lane hostelry makes the phrase ghettoblaster...
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Bogof's week
And so to the British Retail Consortium's annual dinner. Surely this is the only event in the world where the speeches last longer than the meal itself despite being served more courses than your average bacchalian orgies. Chairman Sir David...
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Bogof's week
I'm going to start this week with a bit of a rant and why not, it's my column. Why is it that the switchboards of so many big companies (mostly American owned companies, it has to be said) are refusing to give out job titles, confirm name...
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BOGOF'S WEEK
Watch out Jerry Springer! The Grocer is going on telly. We're dumping our laptops in favour of microphones and even our esteemed editor has been seen trawling the Harrods counters for the right "rugged shades" of make-up. We've been on a course to...