Comment & opinion – Page 493
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The Greek economic crisis is an opportunity
Entrepreneurial and innovative companies with bold leadership will weather the Eurozone storm
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Instead of a point of difference, supermarkets crave uniformity
I’m sure you’ve heard the joke before. Q. What’s the difference between a supermarket trolley and a retail analyst?…
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From the cabbage patches to the killing fields
The Great British Food Revival (Thursday, 7pm, BBC2) has a neat premise: top cooks trying to convert the great unwashed to ape their deviant gastronomic peccadilloes.
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Get ready for a different type of own brand
In the past six months, several well-known own-label manufacturers have come to us with a project: to help them launch their own brand. In all the decades I’ve worked in design and innovation, I’ve never known anything like this. It think it’s fair to say that these numbers definitely indicate ...
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Castello’s aristocratic acrobatics are a seductive Casanova substitute
As the current fuss about St Paul’s demonstrates, Brits love a bit of costume drama, especially when it involves fops in frocks flouncing about in existential crisis before the baying hordes.
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A dirty industry in a clean land
Salmon regulators have been in denial about the environmental catastrophe that salmon…
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Lies, linguine and lustful ads
Completing a ‘dodgy stats’ hat-trick, Giovanni Rana has put out some fluff proving Brits are filthy liars who can’t cook but lie about it to wow guests.
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Wholesaling inefficiencies damage us all
When even the biggest suppliers cause problems in the supply chain, it makes life harder still, says Steve Parfett
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Justin King isn’t dead, but there's a new king at Sainsbury’s
I think the Gok Wan clothing range will have a more material impact on Sainsbury’s bottom line…
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Laboutins and stinky boy cover
Some good news in the midst of the recessionary gloom at P&F. I have been promoted from account manager to senior account manager.
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There’s no excuse for a poor delivery service
Online grocery retailers only offering day-long time slots for orders will pay the price in lost custom, says Andrew Yeoman
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Hell toupee for 99p shop in wig horror show
After the riots in Croydon, the last thing the less-than-leafy London borough needs is a race row on the high street.
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Price war comes at the expense of quality
As the economy recovers, consumers will look for new points of difference not just price cuts, says Simon Crouch
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The Big Price Drop sums up UK grocery
Despite the price wars, consumers are still sceptical: only 17% think supermarkets are doing enough to help.
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Dancing around the handbags
The Big Price Drop initiative is not radical enough to herald a price war, says Dr Clive Black
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PR prisons and Olympic transgressions
News that a vast temporary prison is to be set up in London during the Olympics has sent shivers down the spines of marketing folk.
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It is possible to measure the impact of marketing
In the digital era, all you need is creative thinking and data to gauge the effect you’ve had on sales, says Felix Velarde
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New war on Whitehall’s wanton waist
The government gets a lot of flak over food policy - sometimes rightly so, you might say.
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How to deliver the Portas vision?
Whatever the Queen of Shops proposes will need a realistic assessment, says Kevin Hawkins
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Big rewards for a sustainable food system
Our food system is currently failing on climate change, but WWF-UK has advice for government, says Mark Driscoll