All articles by Adam Leyland – Page 9
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Comment & OpinionDoes retail media spell the end for the gondola end?
The big screen revolution is going to pose challenges for some suppliers
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Comment & OpinionFive years and £50m looks ambitious to do away with seasonal labour
One wonders what a £50m investment in funding to accelerate farm automation over the next five years might achieve
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Comment & OpinionUltra-Processed People: Dr Chris van Tulleken’s ‘incendiary’ new book hurts
TV doctor’s dissection exposes food industry’s underbelly in painstaking, gory, unanesthetised detail
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Comment & OpinionGovernment refused inflation-linked CPIs for school dinners. How is that fair?
What does the government want? To keep price inflation to a minimum through effective competition? Or to keep farmers afloat in their hour of need?
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Comment & OpinionSoft drinks is full of Willy Wonkas right now and they’re showing up the giants
Relaxation, gut health and other functional benefits are transforming soft drinks NPD
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Comment & OpinionSmoking ban isn’t the real worry. It’s new vaping restrictions
Youth smoking is already in huge decline. Only 1% of young smokers do so regularly
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Comment & OpinionJason Tarry and the impossible job at John Lewis Partnership
Tarry will bring superb business acumen, huge experience of food and GM, as well as impeccable people skills
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Comment & OpinionMinimum wage, maximum effort: the pay conundrum for food and drink
Skills, expectations and stakes are higher than ever, but the rewards are increasingly in inverse proportion
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Comment & OpinionSheffield council’s ban on alcohol-free variants a conspiracy theory too far
Sheffield council decision to ban booze brands from advertising low & no variants is utterly baffling, says editor-in-chief Adam Leyland
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Comment & OpinionCrisp packet recycling breakthrough down to innovation and resolve
The crisp packet can be recycled with paper and card using ordinary domestic kerbside recycling facilities
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Comment & OpinionAfter Unilever ice cream sale, what future for food and nutrition?
First it was frozen. Then spreads and tea. Now it’s ice cream. What’s next for Unilever’s food and nutrition division?
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Comment & OpinionIt’s a miracle: how water brand Liquid Death is valued at $1.4bn
Here’s 10 reasons for the phenomenal valuation and ‘hypergrowth’ of Liquid Death, the most adult of soft drinks brands
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Comment & OpinionMorrisons is the elephant in the room of the M&A scene
Unconfirmed reports this week that Morrisons is exploring the sale of Rathbones are potentially embarrassing to Morrisons and to CEO Rami Baitiéh if true
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Comment & OpinionTimely food waste funding must be put to good use this time around
The funds will give the sector access to the biggest untapped source of food surplus in the sector
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Comment & OpinionThe struggle to process what ultra-processed foods means
Consumers, scientists, policymakers and food manufacturers are all struggling to process what UPF means
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Grocer 33Asda is best supermarket in our Wimbledon mystery shop
Asda’s store was described as “wide open, tidy, modern and very inviting”
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Comment & OpinionWes Streeting’s steamroller is heading in the food industry’s direction
Labour is courting big business. And the attraction is mutual
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Comment & OpinionSainsbury’s Next Level strategy is pretty basic… but also ballsy
Four years into its Food First strategy, Sainsbury’s isn’t currently selling its full food range in the vast majority of its superstores and hypermarkets
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Comment & OpinionBrexit border rules: the big questions still to answer on imports
The latest bombshell to emerge is the upgrade of certain fruit & veg from low risk to medium risk
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Comment & OpinionDiageo’s marginalisation of wholesalers sets a worrying precedent
The danger is the situation snowballs, breaking a further link in the wholesale chain