All articles by Adam Leyland – Page 47
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Comment & OpinionEditor's Comment: I doubt Tesco’s new promotion mechanic, the BOGIFPC, is going to catch on
Have you read any of Philip Clarke's tweets (twitter.com/clarkepatesco)? In an otherwise low-key start for Tesco's new CEO, he's been informing his 2,767 followers (including rivals, I can assure you), of his whereabouts.
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Comment & Opinion
Editor's Comment: The leaps of faith in the responsibility deal are seriously grown up
I can't work out if the industry has signed up to the Boy Scouts Oath or a game of strip poker. Of course, to the six leading health organisations who put their trust in science and sticks, this week's 'responsibility deal' belongs only in the...
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Editor's Comment: Decline of Mars is more about the whisper than the Wispa
In January last year, Mars announced plans to reformulate the Mars bar. It was a historic move: while other chocolate confectioners were signing up to Fairtrade this and Rainforest that, the UK’s favourite chocolate bar invested £9m over five years…
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Britain's 100 Biggest Brands 2011: Deep pockets not the only key to delivering growth
How did it become a universal truth that big brands can’t do innovation? Perhaps it was the fact that so many multinationals swallowed up fast-growth companies all too literally.
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NewsBritain's 100 Biggest Brands 2011: Bringing ideas to life
Faced with an uncertain economy and nervous shoppers, Britain’s Biggest Brands might have given up on innovation. But while some are tweaking here and there, as Adam Leyland reports, others are seizing the moment with both hands
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Comment & Opinion
Editor's Comment: Nobody better than Tesco at stealing rivals' thunder
Asda has spent the last 18 months working with mysupermarket.co.uk to develop its shiny Price Guarantee website. So credit has to go to those jackdaws over in Cheshunt who've knocked together their own passable imitation in 10 seconds flat.
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Analysis & FeaturesStuart Rose and Andy Bond: tips for the next generation
After stepping down from Marks & Spencer and Asda, retail legends Sir Stuart Rose and Andy Bond give Charles Wilson and Adam Leyland their tips for the next generation
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Comment & Opinion
Coming weeks will determine the retail landscape for years to come
In recent weeks, I’ve talked about the contradictions that exist between the government’s desire to tame inflation, cut costs, increase taxes and cure the nation of its binge- drinking habits.
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Analysis & FeaturesOne year on, can Kraft now celebrate its Cadbury deal?
It’s just over a year since its $19bn acquisition of Cadbury. Kraft’s results have given Adam Leyland a proper opportunity to examine progress
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Comment & Opinion
Editor's Comment: Supermarkets don't run the economy, shoppers do
At the start of the year, we undertook an exercise to see whether supermarkets were exploiting the VAT hike to push through price increases. It's a well-known technique, and was definitely used by a number of retailers both when VAT rose to 17.5%...
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Comment & Opinion
Editor's Comment: Tax breaks could promote lower-abv drinks - and advertising
The camel is a horse designed by committee. So what creature will be created by the tortuous deliberations of the European Council and the European Union to create a unified front-of-pack food health label scheme?
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NewsStella launches cider brand extension
Stella Artois is set for a dramatic move into cider, The Grocer can reveal – the first time a leading lager brand has crossed the category divide. Stella Cidre, a 4.5% abv premium cider, will be brewed exclusively for the UK market in Belgium.
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Kerry Group accused of pushing up prices after acquiring rival
Customers and rivals of frozen ready meals giant Kerry Group have accused it of trying to take advantage of its dominant market position to force through price rises after quietly snapping up a major rival this month. Kerry moved to buy...
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Editor's Comment: There are major question marks over the risks for Boparan
Noisy. That's the only way to describe the battle over Northern Foods, as Ranjit Boparan trumpeted a ballsy 73p per share cash offer for the chilled ready meals, frozen pizza and biscuit business last Friday.
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Comment & Opinion
Whitehall's binge drinking crackdown will be as effective as Cameron’s big society
In its juggling act to kickstart the economy, the government is cutting public expenditure… while increasing VAT… at the same time as keeping a lid on inflation. Just like that!
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Beer prices to rocket as cost hikes hit industry
The price of a pint of beer could rise by as much as 10%, or 30p, experts are predicting, as the soaring cost of barley adds to the above-inflation increases in duty and VAT. As Whitehall announced plans to ban "below-cost" sales of...
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NewsTesco in multi-pronged Asda attack over ‘misleading’ ploy
With Tesco fighting Asda’s 10% cheaper price pledge on a number of fronts, who will be successful? Adam Leyland and James Halliwell report
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Bond: I joined Euro to grow it, not sell it off
Former Asda CEO Andy Bond has dismissed suggestions fast-growing forecourt chain Euro Garages is looking for a sale, after his appointment as non-executive chairman this week. Euro has enjoyed a meteoric rise in sales since it was founded...
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Comment & Opinion
Listen to the eerie silence surrounding Asda’s Price Guarantee
What took you so long? It was a strange way for Asda to respond after it was overtaken by Sainsbury’s in the Kantar Worldpanel data this week. But there was no shortage of strange responses.
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Comment & Opinion
Editor's Comment: Nudges and swapathons won't change many lives
The new year. A time for resolutions, rollbacks and, er, price hikes. Actually, the price hikes have not exactly kicked in thus far. While Starbucks and McDonald’s (along with utilities and rail services, of course) have been exposed for opportunist…