All articles by Adam Leyland – Page 49
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NewsBack to the farm: Jamie Mitchell of Daylesford Organic
Fine food retailer and manufacturer Daylesford Organic is returning to its roots – on the farm – under a new plan outlined by new CEO Jamie Mitchell. Adam Leyland reports
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Comment & OpinionEditor's Comment: Why can’t an offer be extended if it has done well?
Fingers is at it again. Meddlesome OFT chief John Fingleton, an economist, has been sticking his digits into "the advertising of prices".
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NewsGood call? Or are the rumours just silly-season deal talk?
Why would Campbell want to buy UB, or SAB Miller go for Foster’s, ask Adam Leyland, Anna-Marie Julyan and Hannah Stodell
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Comment & Opinion
Editor's Comment: Ill-informed prophecies on inflation can be self-fulfilling
The phones have barely stopped ringing since The Grocer broke news of the soaring price of wheat, animal feed and silage, and the possibility of a ban on Russian wheat exports has captured the media's imagination.
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Comment & Opinion
Editor's Comment: The 12.5p pint of milk will have a major impact on the trade
I suppose it’s not surprising Andrew Thornton’s squirrel-steak-selling Budgens store in Crouch End is receiving so much publicity right now.
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NewsPepsiCo's Richard Evans: A not so trivial pursuit
PepsiCo UK and Ireland president Richard Evans is on a mission to take PepsiCo to the next level. Ten months into the job, he talks to Adam Leyland
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Walkers taps growth in sharing bags with Extra Crunchy range
Walkers is launching a new crisps range called Extra Crunchy next month, available exclusively in sharing bags and backed by a £3.5m ad campaign. PepsiCo hopes the power brand can tap into the runaway growth in the bagged snacks sharing...
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NewsHot Topic: I can take or leave Marmite, but it's still my mate
There was more good news for Birds Eye this week, with Myleene Klass signing up to TV ads that will feature get fit exercises.
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NewsItalian job sees Birds Eye snatch frozen ops
As Birds Eye Iglo landed Unilever's Italian frozen food business this week, CEO Martin Glenn said strong backing in the City and a willingness to work jointly with Unilever in the future helped beat off competition from frozen food...
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Comment & Opinion
Editor's Comment: Why no fanfare for Birds Eye's Italian swoop?
I want to tell you a story: I've called it The Tale of Two Equities.
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Comment & Opinion
Editor's Comment: Even supermarket execs aren't sure what promotions are for
Highly complex, and at an average of 20% and counting, trade investment is the biggest and most important expenditure of every NAM, sales director and quite possibly CEO in fmcg.
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NewsAs questions over IPO linger, will it be Ocado or Ocadon’t?
Markets are nervous and it has yet to turn a profit. So what’s Ocado worth? And will it really float? Adam Leyland and Simon Creasey answer the questions
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Editor's Comment: Sir Terry's retirement shows his impeccable timing
My local independent newsagent complains that I always write about Tesco in this column. He's going to be disappointed again, I'm afraid, after another very busy week for the UK's biggest and most important retailer.
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Comment & Opinion
Editor's Comment: The EU’s attempt to simplify labelling has created a multi-headed monster
An England victory, hot sunny weather. The perfect ingredients to deaden the blows from this week's Emergency Budget? Not quite.
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Editor's Comment: Essential showed Waitrose doesn’t only sell truffle-scented olive oil
Genius. That’s the only way to describe our Own-Label Range of the Year.
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NewsBrasher all set for the most powerful job in UK grocery
With Sir Terry Leahy’s retirement and the Tesco board reshuffle, the UK operations will be run by Richard Brasher. What will that look like, asks Adam Leyland
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NewsIs Netto a good catch for Asda and what’s the plan?
Asda has taken a giant leap into the small store format with its purchase of Netto. But just how good is the fit? Chloe Ryan and Adam Leyland report
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Editor's Comment: Why I’m in favour of a minimum price for alcohol
I thought the first few weeks of the new coalition would be all about how to cut the public deficit. Instead, how to cut binge drinking is dominating the media agenda.
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Editor's Comment: Curb promotions, yes, but a below-cost ban won’t work
The day after Tesco was welcoming moves set out in the Queen's Speech to ban below-cost alcohol promotions, it was selling Stella for 95p a litre. In other words: six pence below the cost of the excise duty and VAT costs it pays out to HMRC.
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Editor's Comment: Economic uncertainty makes life hard for new recruits in our Power List
If power were just about size, Tesco's Sir Terry Leahy would top our Power List regardless, and the big four would follow in rank order.