All articles by Charlie Wright
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Comment and Opinion
Baby boom breakthrough
Britain is experiencing a baby boom the likes of which hasn’t been seen since the 1970s.
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Comment and OpinionCafedirect keeps thinking small
There’s probably a good crossover between Fairtrade loyalists and people who watched Adam & Joe on Channel 4 in the 1990s…
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Comment and OpinionGender roles are pie in the sky
First The Grocer revealed that blokes are now more likely to take solace in chocolate than women, thanks to the stress of the recession…
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Comment and Opinion
Hooray for Paul Hollywood in the Great British Bake-Off
So the finalists of the Great British Bake-Off are nearing their final hurdle: the final…
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Comment and Opinion
The new edtion of The Grocer is now online
Philip Clarke took to the podium today at today’s IGD conference to offer his (latest) vision of the future. With all the unanswered questions currently facing Tesco’s boss, it probably made a nice change for him to look past the present…
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NewsSainsbury’s, Waitrose and Aldi outperform the market
Sainsbury’s has emerged as the big winner alongside Waitrose in the most recent data from Kantar Worldpanel.
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Comment and Opinion
Zetar's sweet-talking suitor
There won’t be quite the same outcry as there was over Cadbury, and hopefully not the same borderline-xenophobic headlines in some of the papers…
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Comment and Opinion
Barman, there's a fish in my pint
Food Unwrapped promised “to ask the questions food producers aren’t expecting” - maybe because they’re too banal…
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Comment and Opinion
King's sign o' the times
There’s a range of responses in today’s papers to Tesco’s results. Several focus on what the dip in profits means for Fresh & Easy, the FT styling comments from Philip Clarke about the loss-making chain’s performance as a “US ultimatum”…
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Comment and Opinion
Is the supertanker changing
Today Tesco posted a 0.1% increase in UK like-for-like sales - not wildly impressive, perhaps, but nevertheless a major improvement on the previous quarter, and the first time in quite a while the numbers have been heading in the right direction.
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Comment and Opinion
A cloudy vision of Guinness
Sometimes less is more. A new Guinness ad used to be a major event, but the second new film in a few weeks is a bit of a letdown, despite the big build-up it got from Diageo.After the earthy vigour of ‘Painting the town black’ - celebrating the annual branding ...
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Comment and Opinion
Nutella Lawson comes over all Italian
There’s always room for a little Nigella in our lives - and little is the word after what the tabs call a “strict new diet”…
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Comment and OpinionSky falls in for Heineken's have-a-go hero
Heineken urges boozers to ‘Open your World’. But the world is not enough for James Bond…
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NewsNew dawn for Morrisons breakfast cereals
Serial makeover merchant Morrisons has made cereals the subject of its latest own-label overhaul.
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Comment and Opinion
The portman (road) group
As a direct descendant of Ipswich Town fans, Daily Bread feels a certain degree of affection for the sleepy Suffolk town. It’s probably genetic…
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NewsRussia halts GM maize imports in wake of Monsanto cancer study
Russia has slapped a temporary ban on imports of genetically-modified maize produced by Monsanto, according to…
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Comment and OpinionWhose frog has the fresher legs?
Waitrose is taking on Tesco over price these days - but can Tesco boast of the fresher salad?…
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NewsTesco hikes milk price for dairy farmers
Tesco is hiking the price it pays farmers in its Sustainable Dairy Group by just over 2p per litre.
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NewsSainsbury’s and Nectar owner plot new marketing venture
Sainsbury’s has teamed up again with the company behind its Nectar scheme for a new marketing venture aimed at fmcg suppliers.
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NewsControversy rages over Monsanto/GM cancer study
The scientists behind an explosive new study on the health effects of a leading weedkiller and a strain of genetically-modified maize have come in for a barrage of criticism.