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Comment & OpinionE-cig ads vaporised
The Advertising Standards Authority today swung its firepower to bear on the e-cigarette industry, banning TV ads from four producers that it said misled consumers.
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Comment & OpinionWho says selling is weak? That's just wrong
At a round of sales training events staged by IGD, the speaker announced that the more you sell the weaker you look….
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Comment & OpinionMiliband's one nation – of shopkeepers
In a crucial day for the future of Ed Miliband and the Labour Party, it was a surprise to see his plans to freeze business rates chosen as today’s big speech trailer.But sure enough, a few hours later, Miliband took to the stage in Brighton and spoke up for hard-pressed ...
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Comment & OpinionExports are opening doors
It is popular to bash the government for holding back business. But in the case of exports, it deserves praise…
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CIWF is not anti-dairy
Animal welfare should become part of planning law - this would ensure animal welfare is placed at the heart of megadairy proposals, or indeed any proposals for intensive farms…
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Comment & OpinionSelling requires you to adapt your style to the situation
Seeing the despairing face of the Asda food hall manager, I paused….
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Comment & OpinionTesco has head start with Hudl
Like me, many of you have no doubt been glued to Robert Peston’s BBC series on the history of British retail…
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Comment & OpinionCorkers takes sharing bags to another level
Who actually shares sharing bags? We may buy them with good intentions, but we always end up guiltily scoffing the lot…
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Comment & OpinionTitania's skirt makes an impression at Speciality Food
I’ve been in the tartan mini (skirt, not car) that is this year’s autumn fashion essential…
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Helping jobless find work
A debate has been raging over the summer about how prepared young people are for work when they leave school…
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Comment & OpinionGet ready for a digitally marketed Christmas
With ‘back to school’ now a distant memory, marketers will be looking to Christmas…
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Comment & OpinionC4's Fried Chicken Shop is a slice of multicultural life
Is fried chicken the food of love? The goings on at The Fried Chicken Shop (Channel 4, Monday, 9pm), suggest it could be…
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Is your business Open to Export? If so, UKTI wants to help you
It’s a startling statistic. Only 10% of the UK’s small and medium-sized food and drink enterprises export abroad…
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Comment & OpinionHigh streets need a reality check if they are to be reformed
To innovate is not to reform” said Edmund Burke, a distinction that would-be saviours of the Great British high street usu…
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Comment & OpinionWhat do we know about Tesco's 'British' pork chop? Sweet FA
The idea that, eight months on from Horsegate, a British pork chop can turn out to be Dutch is horrific…
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Digital tools can help turn around our high streets
The debate over the future of the high street needs to move away from being a public spat between Mary Portas and Bill Grimsey.
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Comment & OpinionBooker-winning summer
Booker has revealed its like-for-like sales in the 12 weeks to 13 September rose 3.5%. But who won the summer?
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Comment & OpinionGood food needs good wages
UK consumer price inflation in July was 2.8%, with food inflation just higher than that…
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Comment & OpinionPlay to your strengths to find scope for growth at work
It’s also the area where people most often feel dissatisfied. The average person spends 40 to 50 years of their life worki…
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Comment & OpinionFighting over .wine
There’s a storm fermenting in internet-land. Wine producers fear their geographic identity could be under attack from the online equivalent of a land-grab…