All articles by Adam Leyland – Page 33
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Comment & OpinionWhy the craft booze movement will leave a permanent legacy
The craft booze movement has been one of the most astonishing and marvellous developments of the past decade
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Comment & OpinionSunday Trading: who will benefit and who will suffer?
Opening the doors to longer trading hours on a Sunday may provide a shot in the arm to Tesco’s ailing superstores, but it will be Asda that benefits the most
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Comment & OpinionFerrero's pursuit of its Cinderella is no Cadbury story
There are a number of reasons why this deal has been broadly welcomed…
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Comment & OpinionPick Your Own Offers is clever, but isn't it a bit of a faff?
John Lewis’s Never Knowingly Undersold price-matching mechanic has inspired a lot of imitators
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NewsIan Deste is new Burton's Biscuits UK & Ireland MD
Most recently commercial director at Premier Foods, Deste left the business last September, and has previous with spells at Premier Foods and CCE
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Grocer Golds celebrate smaller entrepreneurial companies
Smaller, younger companies stole the limelight at the Golds in the most egalitarian and entrepreneurial results ever
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Kantar Worldpanel results can't tell us why growth is sluggish
The new Kantar Worldpanel results come out and the Mail declares Tesco’s barely new CEO is now ‘under more pressure’
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Grocer 33Robbie Feather, Sainsbury's online director, on the Star Order
Growth at Sainsbury’s online appears to have slowed. Why?
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NewsCostcutter investment is now paying off says Willson-Rymer
Costcutter’s recruitment pipeline “has never been stronger” CEO Darcy Willson-Rymer insists
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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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Political 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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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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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…