Comment & opinion – Page 516
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Comment & OpinionTales of Titania: Sprouts up the festive tuba
My most enduring memory of schooldays is our housemistress Miss Leech bellowing (in a voice not dissimilar to Craig Revel Horwood): "Titaaaarnia, put your knickers back on", and waking up the entire dorm as I crept in after dark.
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Third Party: The big freeze is a sales bonanza for c-stores
Fmcg brands should wise up to the huge profit potential of convenience stores in the winter months, says Linda Horton
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Saturday Essay: Taking our sustainability goals to a new level
Manufacturers recognise their responsibilities – and that’s why we’ve set more challenging targets, says Andrew Kuyk
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Kishor Patel's Expert Advice: Beating the odds in 2011 and beyond
How can independents survive the VAT hike, the tobacco display ban, the drying up of credit and competition from the multiples in 2011?
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Second Opinion: Snow makes us crave real food
And it consigns nutritionally poor junk to its rightful place out in the cold, says Joanna Blythman
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Careers File: Home secretary and Unite boss making major waves
It’s not often one can find a reason to mention home secretary Theresa May and union agitator Len McCluskey in the same breath.
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Will Diageo swallow Yankee spirit?
Chances to stock up on Christmas booze may have been thwarted by the weather, but one company with a new opportunity to bolster its drinks cabinet is Diageo.
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Careers File: Celebrate a new job, but plan your first weeks
So, you've just been offered a great new job. What do you do now? Celebrate? Sit back, relax in the knowledge that all your hard work has paid off and wait for your first day?
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Comment & OpinionCritical Eye... on Nigel's soothing enthusiasm
Nigel Slater is the epitome of uncool. He looks like a maiden aunt, speaks so slowly it could easily be deemed patronising and the programme logo with its lower-case N and three-flame shaped Ss well, it's just embarrassing (and with its...
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Comment & OpinionTales of Titania: Prince Andrew plays swapsies
Very disappointed not to make it into leaked diplomatic dispatches following my work on the 'Leading British Food Out Of The Recession' export roadshow with Prince Andrew.
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Third Party: Give seasonal e-marketing a personal touch
Retailers must tailor their emails to consumers’ needs – and money-off vouchers won’t hurt either, says Richard Evans
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Saturday Essay: Get connected, your community needs you!
The big society is coming to life with the concept of Business Connectors linking up to local charities, says Gwynn Burr
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Comment & OpinionEditor's Comment: What kind of a chocolate factory is Kraft going to run?
With a nice Brit presenting the case for Kraft this week at the first media briefing since its acquisition of Cadbury in February, journalists found it hard to portray Cadbury as having been gobbled up by nasty, predatory Americans.
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The snow must go on
Whether you're marooned at home or smugly sitting at your desk wondering what all the fuss is about, it won’t have escaped your notice that there’s a bit of snow around. Or rather, a lot.
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Whiteout
There’s been a spot of bad weather today round The Grocer’s Gatwick command bunker, which means the magazine is running with something of a skeleton staff.
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Comment & OpinionWhite Paper, not carte blanche
Andrew Lansley today outlined what he called a “radical shift” in the way we tackle public health challenges.
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Careers File: Young talent is out there, now go and track it down
Over the past few years this magazine, along with almost every other food and horticultural trade journal we subscribe to, has featured lots of articles and comments from observers puzzling as to how they are going to attract the 'bright new talent' that their industries will need to thrive and ...
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Comment & OpinionCritical Eye... on the water purer than Jesus
Humans discovered water in 1974, when an undersea pipeline in Hawaii found not oil but H20. Now Mahalo, marketed as older than Jesus and twice as pure, is sold to Japan's thirsty masses at 10 times the price of what they were originally looking...
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Comment & OpinionTales of Titania: Witchcraft, water and women scorned
Imagine a lady forthright, imposing, statuesque, made up to the nines, booming voice and brooking no argument and you have the identikit PR diva traditionally at the helm of the UK’s PR agencies.