All articles by Adam Leyland – Page 53
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The Price promise
A new entry-level range will make Waitrose an essential shop, says managing director Mark Price. By Adam Leyland
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Editor's Comment: Coca-Cola working with Innocent? That would take a lot of getting used to
It's been a week of strong contrasts. Morrisons (up) versus Waitrose (down). Cola (up) versus smoothies and bottled water (down). And, in another delightful example of how perplexing it must be to be a shopper, contrasting articles, on the same...
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Smiles at Innocent but will Coca-Cola be its new mate?
Bruised by recession and intense competition, Innocent is in talks with investors to fuel overseas expansion. How's it hanging? By Adam Leyland and James Ball
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Britain's top brands defy crunch to leave own-label lagging
Own-label lines may be flying off the shelves as cash-strapped consumers trade down to value. But Britain's 100 Biggest Grocery Brands are flying even faster, a new report published by The Grocer reveals. The ranking, published in...
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Editor's Comment: Tesco win leaves competition test in tatters
Who's the biggest loser in this week's historic ruling by the Competition Appeals Tribunal (see p5)? Tesco's rivals? UK shoppers? Or chief commissioner Peter 'Gordon' Freeman and his sidekicks at the Competition Commission? At least the...
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Editor's Comment: Oscar night had nothing on the agony of Watchdog's supermarket poll
Oscar night is excruciating. As the winners are announced, cameras spy on those who missed out. Employing all the skills of the thespian trade, actors still struggle to hide the disappointment on their faces.
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Editor's Comment: FSA satfats consultation sounds ominous
The ire of the industry over regulation is being kept in check, at the moment, by the more pressing concerns surrounding the economy - and survival - but this week came two reminders of the parallel universe in which Government, and its many...
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Editor's Comment: Significant inflationary pressures remain in the system
Inflation. It's the last thing anyone needs right now. So multiple grocery retailers have been doing their best to downplay it, while bombarding the market with promotions. Yet, while the falling price of oil and plentiful harvests have...
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Editor's Comment: Grocery companies are no longer immune to the downturn
New bosses always paint it black. Whether tacitly, or outspokenly, “it’s going to take time to sort out the mess I inherited”, has been inferred in the utterances of countless new chief executives, supply chain directors or supermarket managers,...
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Editor's Comment: Spayne Lindsay's intriguing new private equity fund
As a result of the recession, there’s a heightened sense of anticipation in every announcement at the moment, good or bad, but C4’s devotion of seemingly its entire late-January schedule to food and drink-based issues is such, to paraphrase the late…
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Editor's Comment: Why not feed pigs on tinned pasta?
Normally I wouldn’t have given a second thought to the pâté in my fridge this morning. It was well past its sell-by date – a hangover from the excesses of Christmas. Until, that is, I read the advice of the Food Standards Agency this week....
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Mouthwash in cancer scare
The fast-growing mouthwash category has been dealt a blow after new research showed ethanol-based products increase the risk of oral cancer by up to nine times.
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Editor's Comment: Did the earth move for you on 23 December?
In these apocalyptic times, there's a lot to take in. Yet the consensus seems to be that it's not as bad as it had been painted
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Editor's Comment: The world order in grocery is still much as it was
Fasten your seatbelts, folks, it's going to be a bumpy ride. Over the next 140 pages, in screaming technicolour, we're taking you on a journey of this rollercoaster of a year. It's not always been scenic, it's often been downright scary, and at the...
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Pound and pint saved by EU climbdown
Pints, miles, pounds and ounces have been saved, after the European Parliament voted to scrap indefinitely plans to impose the metric system on the UK.
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Editor's Comment: If quality was the real battleground, Aldi would have rebranded as Trader Joe
The rise of the discounters this year has been nothing short of extraordinary. At 3.1% Aldi's market share is now close to that of Waitrose (3.6%). To some extent, the discounters have been filling up the space left by Kwik Save's demise,...
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Editor's Comment: Is Tesco's discounter range really a mistake when even Ocado is distancing itself from premium?
In the week that Morrisons reported an 8% increase in like-for-like sales, Tesco's 2.2% growth - and the discounter range that has arguably brought it about - looks neither big nor clever. While Sir Terry and his team argue it has deliberately...
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The candyman can
Cadbury CEO Todd Stitzer is on a mission to mend margins and make the newly demerged global confectionery giant sing. He's well on his way, says Adam Leyland
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Editor's Comment: Now our futures depend on credit swaps, not just neeps and nappies
Who'd have thought it? Until the credit crunch I thought we were in the business of selling neeps and nappies; but our future more than ever depends on credit default swaps
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Editor's Comment: Is it really a rip-off to run products at sale prices for longer than the higher ones?
It isn't the season to be jolly. That's next month. But already, the Christmas bargains are coming thick and fast. As well as 20% off on clothing at Marks & Spencer, this week saw buy one get TWO deals at Morrisons, for example. And while no-one...