Comment & opinion – Page 505
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Comment & OpinionCritical Eye... on Jamie's plastic-wrapped hubris
Oh the hubris of the man! Having hacked off the good people of Huntington, West Virginia, Oliver has now taken his food revolution to La La Land (Jamie's Food Revolution Hits Hollywood, 10pm, C4, 17 May) la la la ironically being the very sound I...
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Comment & OpinionTales of Titania: Green PR and Middle Eastern despots
So Karoline (with a K) is back from her eco-tour of the Maldives and is behaving like a thing possessed. "Open your eyes to the green PR revolution," she bellows at our Monday morning meeting.
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Third Party: People want value, not just lowest prices
Great customer service that builds consumer loyalty is much more valuable than heavy discounting, says Tim Ogle
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We can’t allow GM chicken feed
Supermarkets must use their weight to support the ban on modified soya, says Joanna Blythman
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Coalition has nothing to celebrate amid poor employment figures
“Rigid, rule-based regulation is preventing businesses from employing more people,” claimed shadow chancellor Ed Balls at the Institute of Directors (IoD) conference last week as he came to blows with chancellor George Osborne over how to boost employment
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Saturday Essay: Isn’t it time for a balanced debate on pies?
Jokes are all well and good, but pies can be healthy – and they contribute £1bn to the economy, says Neil Court-Johnston
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Comment & OpinionIn today's world, the consumer is more powerful than ever
It’s time for the big reveal. And the no1 spot in this year’s Power List is… Martin Lewis, the founder of moneysavingexpert.com…
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The only thing worse than being talked about
Few people these days will believe there’s really no such thing as bad publicity. Even so, most marketers would consider a few snarky comments from internet critics a price worth paying for acres of free coverage.
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Gluten-free goes super-Novak
On Saturday The Times reported with some gusto that food intolerances were a figment of our oversensitive and pampered western imaginations.
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Clarke starts to feel the quality
In The Times today, Andy Clarke is again banging the drum on his supermarket’s new focus on quality.
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Careers File: It may be time to take a career health check
Whether you are just moving up the ladder or you are a seasoned veteran, it may be time to think about taking a career health check. Quite often, where you find yourself in your career is not as a result of good planning or natural sequential...
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Comment & OpinionTales of Titania: Bolly, Bristol Cream and a whole lot of vomit
Picture the scene. I'm looking my best in a client-satisfying LBD (Alexander McQueen) paid for (£1,430) by Karoline (with a K) "because we really need to keep this account darling".
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Third Party: Next gen EDI is here. Don’t get left behind
There are huge benefits to moving your electronic trading to next generation web-based platforms, says David Grosvenor
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McIntyre’s got Marmite
The inexorably linked worlds of grocery and performance art crossed paths yet again this week.First as art student Nathan Wyburn wowed judges on Britain's Got Talent with a portrait of Michael McIntyre made from Marmite on toast.
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Saturday Essay: Get smart! It’s time to mobilise your brand
Fmcg brands need to take a lead from the retailers’ use of mobile marketing – and then do it better, says Dave Buckingham
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If Haldanes was sold down the river, did its chairman consider the strength of the current?
When newly formed independents started taking on former Somerfield supermarket stores back in the autumn of 2009…
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Fears over E242 in school drinks
Sir, Your feature 'Soft drinks harden up' (Focus on Soft Drinks, The Grocer, 30 April) was interesting and it was good that school drinks were touched on. However it illustrates the confusion over the phrase ' school compliance'.
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Is Iceland about to melt away?
If Malcolm Walker and co decide not to buy Iceland, it could well disappear.
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Hard cheese, Jay's jibes and Linda Lusardi
Yesterday The Grocer held its 2011 Own Label Food & Drink Awards, sponsored by PLMA and Cambridge Market Research.
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'Bomber' Harris goes to war
Aside from Tesco appointing its next chairman, Philip Clarke unveiling a new strategy for the UK’s largest grocer, Sainsbury’s posting stellar profits and Ocado bizarrely blaming the bank holidays for a slowdown in sales while everyone else was struggling to match demand, it was shaping up to be a pretty quiet news day.