Comment & opinion – Page 519
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Comment & OpinionSaturday Essay: The high street has hit a watershed moment
Transfer of planning power to councils could backfire if town centre development is not prioritised
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Comment & OpinionDunn and dusted
The best double-act since the original Gold Blend couple have officially called it day.
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Comment & OpinionDiageo's Champagne moment
Today one of Diageo’s many overseas interests hit the acquisition trail, with East African Breweries splashing out $60m on rival Serengeti. But the Guinness brewer has rather bigger fish to fry on the deal markets.
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Comment & OpinionVlad the Enabler
Premier Foods needed some good news. Tesco has just de-listed a raft of Hovis lines, it’s in the kind of debt that would give George Osborne nightmares – and to compound things, the company is getting a visit from a bunch of The Grocer’s top hacks later this week.
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Careers File: So you want a superstar, but what type exactly?
We are a growing company and I am anxious to take the next steps to becoming a larger, more profitable food manufacturer...
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Comment & OpinionCritical Eye... on sous chefs and disrespectful virgins
There's only so many food and drink "documentaries" and "reality TV" shows I can take and, needing a laugh, I decided to try some food and drink-related comedies.
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Third Party: Food industry shows how to do ‘big society’
The FDF Community Partnership Awards celebrate the best industry initiatives to help communities, says Julian Hunt
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Saturday Essay: Thank God parties think alike on green issues
Conference season reveals an environmental consensus. But does the green revolution start here, asks Ian Hogg
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Comment & OpinionAcid Test: Peperami Pizzas
In its first venture outside the meat snack market, Unilever predicted the microwaveable Peperami Pizza range would rack up £30m in sales in its first three years.
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Comment & OpinionApril stools at Farmfoods
Shopper Sharlene Denham last week wasted hours on the phone at the North Lynn Farmfoods answering increasingly odd questions supposedly to win cash. Neither Denham nor the store manager suspected a hoax, even when she was told to use him…
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Comment & OpinionEditor's Comment: No-one can predict the effect of Osborne's measures
Until this week, the acronym CSR was synonymous with the fluffy, caring-sharing side of business
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Comment & OpinionTales of Titania: Ungrateful Gramias and East End puke
We Puff & Fluff minions were banned from going to the Gramias this year. A victim of this week's consumer spending review? Er, no.
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Second Opinion: Spending review will mean a wider skills gap
The future workforce needs dignity and good pay as well as qualifications, says Tim Lang
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Comment & OpinionLucky dip or double dip
For politicos, pundits and number crunchers, yesterday’s Comprehensive Spending Review was a dream.
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Comment & OpinionCharity, clarity and a flamingo-tinged ringmaster
So the trophies are safely atop fireplaces, the tuxedos at the dry cleaners and the hangovers (mostly) subsided.
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Comment & OpinionMarmite's brave new world
Love it or hate it, you can’t ignore it. Marmite seems to be everywhere at the moment.
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Comment & OpinionCalling International Rescue
Few of us could fail to be moved by the heart-warming pictures of the 33 Chilean miners as they were reunited with their loved ones after 69 days trapped underground.
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Careers File: Trust is key to riding out the recession
It won't just be public sector workers crossing everything when the government announces its long-awaited Comprehensive Spending Review.
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Comment & OpinionTales of Titania: Small brains, healthy boobs and self-sacrifice
Sorry charity sweeties, you can keep your pink ribbons and limping round Hyde Park semi-nude at two in the morning in the driving rain. The cure for breast cancer, it transpires in the (Lancet-lite) Daily Mail, is not the self-sacrifice of...
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Third Party: We must do more to tackle ecological debt
If the rate of global consumption matched the UK’s, the world would be using up 2.75 planets a year, says Mark Driscoll