All The Grocer articles in 22 June 2002 – Page 5
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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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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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A Tesco love-in at the Marketing Society retail forum came to an abrupt halt last week when a spy was spotted in the crowd. Carolyn Bradley, COO of Tesco.com, had just got on stage, blushing from marketing director Tim Mason's reference to her as...
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Bogof's week
While the nation's fittest, including many distinguished foodies, sweated and puffed around London in the Marathon last Sunday, I trotted gently off to Olympia for the Natural Products Show a feast of organics. Not just pony tailed, lentil soup...
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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
There were a few surprises on the opening day of the ECR Europe conference in Glasgow, not least the shocking sight of Unilever's Antony Burgmans and Marks and Spencer's Luc Vandevelde striding on to the stage in kilts. I am glad to say the kilts ...
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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
One of my colleagues was chatting this week with new Booker boss Malcolm Walker who has been busy meeting customers this week among them Baz Patel who runs a store in Luton. But it seems Walker was as impressed with Patel's big, posh car as he...
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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
Further proof of how competitive the multiples are came this week when Sainsbury and Tesco organised summer bashes for the same night, the same time and the same stretch of the Thames. Although one spin doctor admitted to me that the diary clash...
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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
It's Sunday and it's the Summer Fancy Food Show in the ninety degrees heat of the Big Apple! (Well, it makes a change from London in the rain.) This is the food fair where sinister looking guys in black suits with shades do impressions of 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...