Buying and supplying insight and analysis – Page 8
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Comment and Opinion
How can buyers build a growth strategy?
Most branded and many own-label companies have formal category strategies – explicit points of view on how to get growth
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Analysis and Features
As Asahi eyes Peroni and Grolsch, what are the implications for UK beer?
The Japanese brewer is tipped to make a bid for the SAB Miller brands worth about £2.3bn
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Comment and Opinion
Marketing is redundant if the product is brilliant
What would a launch need to look like to succeed without marketing support?
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Comment and Opinion
Joanna Blythman taken to task for rapeseed oil 'vendetta'
Sir, I have to take Joanna Blythman to task on her vendetta against rapeseed oil
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Analysis and Features
Vegetable oil suppliers face ongoing price slump
Suppliers and shoppers will be enjoying the drop in fuel costs but it is compounding the woes of the cooking oil industry…
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Analysis and Features
Macknade: spotlight on a celebrated fine food independent
Starting in a tent in the corner of a field, Macknade is now one of the most celebrated UK independent retailers…
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Comment and Opinion
Arsenic debate raises risk of food fraud in rice
With the EC poised to introduce new safety limits on inorganic arsenic, rice could become a target for frausters warns Professor Chris Elliott.
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Analysis and Features
Food-to-go continues to drive Greencore in 2015
Greencore posted a robust Q1 performance today but the best is yet to come from its food-to-go business in 2015.
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Analysis and Features
Premier Foods flying high as investors cling to shreds of good news
At first glance it may seem somewhat surprising to witness shares in Premier Foods flying today as its power brands once again failed to perform. What’s behind it?
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Analysis and Features
Premier is following a well-established supermarket playbook
The real surprise about Premier Foods’ demands for payment from suppliers is not that the company is doing it, but that it’s suddenly in the spotlight.
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Analysis and Features
Ebola threat drives up cocoa prices despite good supply
Transportation disruption is affecting cocoa supply from Ebola-hit West Africa…
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Comment and Opinion
Fmcg brands hold their own on powerhouse list
Brand consultancy Interbrand today released its annual list of the world’s 100 most valuable brands
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Analysis and Features
In-demand egg white liquid causes production increase
Demand for egg white liquid has risen due to its popularity as a healthy ingredient…
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Analysis and Features
Brands told: don't get caught out with your deal strategy
As the weather has turned colder, has brands’ appetite for featured space cooled off too?
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Analysis and Features
Canadian mining spill prompts fears over sockeye salmon supply
Salmon suppliers have moved to reassure UK buyers about wild salmon after a major mine waste spill in Canada…
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Comment and Opinion
The human side of global supply chain pressure
August is traditionally silly season territory, but there is nothing silly about the summer of 2014.
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Comment and Opinion
Fevered minds and panic buying: WWI reported in The Grocer
As The Grocer reported in its issue of 8 August 1914, swift action was being taken to limit profiteering and panic at the outbreak of WW1.
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Comment and Opinion
Online shoppers with a sweet tooth
We’re buying more confectionery online - a stat we reveal in the first of a new series of digital reports.
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Comment and Opinion
Great digital marketing content won the World Cup this year
Which official World Cup sponsor is winning the social sharing battle? Answer: None of them…
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Comment and Opinion
Sugar debate must recognise personal responsibility
When the government announced a cull of quangos in 2010, one of the 192 bodies on its hit list was SACN…