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Time for an energy drinks enquiry
Monster is having a nightmare. But it’s nothing compared with what the parents of Anais Fournier have been through since the Maryland 14-year-old died last Christmas after drinking two 680ml cans of what the brand refers to as its ‘killer energy brew’ in a day.
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Comment & OpinionPaterson not popular at Sial after badger-inspired no-show
Everyone loves a good export story, and this one was shaping up rather nicely.
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Comment & OpinionArnie Welwyn with the Tesco in-crowd
In a scene more surreal than even his most far-fetched movies, Californian Governator Arnold Schwarzenegger was charm itself…
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Paterson books a place in the last chance saloon
Everyone loves a good export story, and this one was shaping up rather nicely. Less than two months after being shuffled into Defra, Secretary of State Owen Paterson was set to fly the flag for British food and drink in Paris - of all places!…
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The craft beer hunt: don't wait for it to come to you
Sir: I couldn’t agree more with Andreas Falt that UK supermarkets are far too conservative in their approach to beer…
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Turning up the Turbo Tango
You couldn’t ask for a better demonstration of Turbo Tango’s USP.
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Losing your virginity in The Great British Food Revival
If you are what Clarissa Dickson Wright describes as a “rabbit virgin”, then don’t be nervous. Thanks to The Great British Food Reviva…
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Diversity can help your business address complex problems
Marks and Spencer’s commitment to employing people with disabilities and health conditions, with the roll-out of the Marks & Starts scheme…
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Tales of Titania 20/10/12
We’re called into secret talks at the FDF to use our “award-winning PR skills” to help stem the decline in traditional food sales…
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Talking Shop: Obsess about detail, detail
There is a saying used by retailers and about retailers - “they know the price of everything but the value of nothing”…
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Third Party: Don't go purple with rage at Cadbury
The High Court recently rejected a challenge by Nestlé to Cadbury’s application to register its colour purple for chocolate…
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Sustainable seafood: why god is in the detail
There has been a lot of noise this week around creating a truly sustainable European fisheries policy…
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Second Opinion: Two cities nurturing indies
A visit to Amsterdam underlines how diminished our British cityscape has been by the unbridled spread of supermarkets…
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Comment & 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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Is it time retailers stood up in the badger cull debate
It’s been a busy week with badgers. From farmers being threatened with losing Freedom Food accreditation if they take part in the impending cull pilot and pre-eminent scientists criticising the government’s cull policy in a national newspaper…
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Blame it on the bean counters
There are only two certainties in life, as anyone will tell you: death and taxes. Unless you’re Starbucks, that is. It hasn’t paid a bean in corporation tax for the past three years, according to an investigation into the coffee giant’s UK tax affairs by Reuters…
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Breakfast blues
Today’s papers were quick to pick up on a survey revealing that more and more children are going into school hungry. Seventy-nine per cent of teachers reckoned kids were turning up with rumbling tums, and more than half said the problem was getting worse…
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Marco's stock pots make P&F proud, cocktail cock-up doesn't
Marco Pierre White has lumbered back onto our screens to promote Knorr Stock Pots…
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Comment & 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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Third Party: It's time the OFT stopped interfering
The OFT has announced that Mizkan is offering to sell its Burntwood vinegar production site to ensure its proposed acquisition…