All articles by Adam Leyland – Page 33
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Comment & OpinionBooker's £40m swoop on Musgrave GB looks like a steal
To gain an extra 2,000 stores and an extra £1bn in buying power for the cost of a couple of Extras looks like a steal…
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Comment & OpinionFrozen isn't exactly hot right now. But it's sure heating up
What is it about frozen? Here we are, with summer on our doorstep, and along comes another initiative espousing the virtues of frozen
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Comment & OpinionPolitical parallels are both silly and instructive
A lot of parallels have been drawn between the general election and the grocery sector
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Comment & OpinionAs Sceti and Permira slope off what a relief BEIG found Nomad
Nomad’s emergence as a new player in the global food industry consolidation game is fascinating
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Comment & Opinion
Which? move is not a Super Complaint. It's a Silly Whinge
Some of the apparently heinous examples it cites are quite clearly mistakes…
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NewsABF: Kingsmill loaves lost from Tesco have already been replaced
FD John Bason said the Allied Bakeries subsidiary had already replaced the lost business
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Comment & OpinionAs Aldi overtakes Waitrose, how big can the discounter be?
The big question is no longer whether Aldi and Lidl can keep growing. It’s just how big they will ultimately be.
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ProfilesDave Lewis Uncut: the full exclusive interview with Tesco's CEO
In this specially extended web version, Adam Leyland talks to Dave Lewis about his first months in the job, and what’s next for Britain’s biggest supermarket
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Comment & OpinionShould Drastic Dave get a new nickname - Lazarus Lewis?
In little more than three months, and under conditions that were far worse than he could ever have imagined, Lewis rediscovered the pulse in the Tesco patient and surprised colleagues, rivals and the City with the speed with which he breathed new life into the business
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NewsTesco to pay small suppliers within 14 days vows Lewis
“We want suppliers who are partners. Negotiation will always be part of this business. Aggression will not. We want to work in a way that’s sustainable for our business and for our partners. That will mean a whole new way of working.”
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Comment & Opinion
Sainsbury's Mike Coupe already faces the ticking of the clock
Isn’t it funny how little the media writes about Sainsbury’s? Tesco is a national obsession…
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Comment & Opinion
Does the food & drink industry need to embrace the Living Wage?
Ex PepsiCo, Birds Eye and UB boss Martin Glenn was unveiled as the new chief executive of the Football Association
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NewsMartin Glenn appointed CEO of Football Association
Glenn is to be succeeded from 3 April by Jeff van der Eems, currently CEO of UB’s international business
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Comment & Opinion
From Potty to Potts: Tesco lifer David Potts is just the job
Potts was a talent Tesco could ill afford to lose. Particularly in the UK…
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Comment & OpinionAllan Leighton will ensure The Co-op gives as good as it gets
How refreshing it is to have Allan Leighton back in the grocery fold
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InterviewsAllan Leighton: Exclusive interview with the new chairman of Co-op
Our editor Adam Leyland gets an exclusive interview with Allan Leighton covering the chairman’s thoughts on the business, Ursula Lidbetter and his role
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Leighton, working pro bono, returns to his roots as chairman of Co-op
Leighton, whose father ran a Co-op store, was long rumoured for the role
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Comment & Opinion
Misty veg will be missed - but not by core Morrisons shoppers
I’ve gone all misty eyed. I liked the misting tables at Morrisons. I’ll miss them when they’re gone…
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Comment & OpinionA lot of comings and goings in the corridors of power
It’s almost two years since The Grocer put together its last ‘Power List’
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Analysis & FeaturesBuilding a new Co-operative Movement
The crisis that almost engulfed The Co-op has been averted. We talk to the architects of the rebuild