All articles by Adam Leyland – Page 45
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Profiles
Adam Leyland of The Grocer meets Levi Roots
The Grocer’s editor, Adam Leyland, recently met Levi Roots at the Food & Drink Expo. He asks him what’s next in one of UK food’s most compelling success stories.
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Comment & Opinion
Fish or fuel the order of the day as 2012 grows yet curiouser
Fish or fuel? Two key themes in grocery these past few months grew curiouser and curiouser this week…
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NewsGlenn to run Birds Eye 'whoever owns us'
CEO Martin Glenn has pledged to take his team with him if Birds Eye Iglo changes hands.
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Comment & Opinion
Budget's biggest anomaly is the continuing 20% VAT rate
It’s not just restaurants that have been badly hit by the downturn. Even takeaways struggle to compete…
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Comment & Opinion
Olympics: We should big up Britain's multicultural food and drink credentials
What a week! On Monday, the UK’s biggest food manufacturer successfully staved off bankruptcy…
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Analysis & FeaturesBrasher too slow to keep the home fires burning
A man of huge retail talent, ousted Tesco UK CEO Richard Brasher failed to ignite his newly devolved republic and paid the price.
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ProfilesOlympic feast
The Games’ head of catering, Jan Matthews, outlines her vision for London 2012.
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Comment & OpinionThe fall guy
The departure Richard Brasher represents a sad loss to Tesco and an inglorious exit for a man of significant retail talent.
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Comment & Opinion
Minimum pricing would create a traffic jam behind Cameron's police car
Strange but true. In depriving workers the right to strike, in a dispute over pay and conditions, a Lithuanian court this week…
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NewsWaitrose grows but counts cost of spending spree
Waitrose grew like-for-like food sales by 3% in the past year, off the back of new own-label ranges including Love Life and Good to Go.
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Comment & Opinion
It's remarkable that Tesco's £40bn supertanker can turn so quickly and simply
Little details really do count in retail. And they can turn around the performance of a £40bn sales supertanker in a matter of weeks…
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Comment & Opinion
Ownership matters hugely to this country's self-esteem but not, it seems, to sales
We are all aware it’s a big year for Britain - perhaps the “biggest ever”, as Coca-Cola’s Nick Canney maintains. And some will begrudge Coke boarding the GB bandwagon in 2012.
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Comment & Opinion
Buyers hate Pringles, but Kellogg's has spotted a lovely opportunity
When P&G announced that it was selling to Diamond in a $2.3bn paper and cash deal, it seemed ready to…
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Comment & Opinion
It's time to talk tax: avoidance and value added
I’m not sure whether the Portas Pilots are a sign of quite how broke the UK government is, or how futile it believes this exercise is.
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News
Warburtons to kick off big push without Hayes
Warburtons marketing director Richard Hayes has left just days before the family-run baker embarks on its biggest-ever marketing push.
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Comment & Opinion
Supermarkets are unavoidable... even for the wholesalers
At first glance, very little has changed in this year’s Big 30 wholesalers list. Booker is the stand-out, cash & carries are dominant.
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Comment & Opinion
For every useful question it answers, the carbon footprint label raises several more
OK, we were wrong about self-service supermarkets in 1947, but our doubts about the Carbon Trust label have proved well founded.
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Comment & Opinion
Can you imagine an ad with Usain Bolt impersonating Philip Clarke?
Tesco’s Christmas bombshell is over a week old now, but the shock waves are likely to continue for some time.
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Comment & OpinionNostalgia can be great, but now we must look forward
After last week’s anniversary issue, there’s a nostalgic tinge to our cover story again this week, as we kick off our campaign…
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Comment & Opinion
A unique chance to reflect on astonishing change in grocery
With the benefit of hindsight, it’s abundantly clear that The Grocer isn’t too good at reading the future…