All comment & opinion articles – Page 9
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Comment & OpinionThe Turmeric Co ASA ruling illustrates the tightrope health brands must walk
The ruling feels harsh, but reflects strict marketing rules governing the advertising of food supplements
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Comment & OpinionLidl’s scan & shop system works perfectly… I can’t believe it!
This is a discounter, with tighter margins to protect than Tesco, Sainsbury’s or Waitrose – and that’s what makes the experience so incongruous
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Comment & OpinionFrom social media to sports stars: why Brits can’t get enough of pickles
Whether it’s relieving muscle cramps or aiding digestion, health claims – and celebs from Dua Lipa to Kieran Trippier – are helping prolong the pickle boom
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Comment & OpinionBeefeater’s Jamiroquai collab sees Jay Kay reach for a gin
It’s not only a coup for Beefeater to recreate the vid with Jay Kay in situ, it’s quite the technical challenge
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Comment & OpinionHotel Chocolat Unwrapped: the latest low-stakes outing
The episode plodded some low-stakes subjects, like a rain-soaked recent outing of the brand’s Chocmobile
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Comment & OpinionEditor’s Picks: Sainsbury’s split from Argos, Asda growth and food security
No one was expecting this morning’s surprise announcement when we reported that Sainsbury’s has agreed to sell Argos
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Comment & OpinionIs food finally going to be treated as a national priority?
The question is not whether the UK’s food system is vulnerable to these changes, it is whether our government is serious about protecting it
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Comment & OpinionWhy negotiations get escalated, and how to solve those problems
Making Business Matter’s Darren A Smith has spent 35 years negotiating and training on negotiations using the PEPSI system. Here are four reasons why negotiations get escalated
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Comment & OpinionPackaging is the media budget brands forgot they had
With an under-16s ad ban starting to take shape, the desire brands used to buy on a social media feed now has to be earned on shelf, says Equator’s Howard Wright
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Comment & OpinionThis summer’s heatwaves should be a wake-up call for fmcg
As cost pressures push sustainability down the agenda, Essity’s Nicola Conway argues that climate resilience is a business imperative, not a nice to have
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Comment & OpinionWhy the energy drinks ban is the wake-up call the category needs
Legislation is forcing energy drinks to grow up. Good news, says Nicholas Horowitz, co-founder at Founders Makers
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Comment & OpinionTampons to trail bars: women’s health is getting creative
Cramps, headaches, feelings of indiscrimate rage – when period symptoms strike, most people are likely to reach for ibuprofen. But now there’s a new option
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Comment & OpinionPrivilege should be acknowledged. Hiding it helps no one
The column I write for this magazine is a form of privilege. That’s a microphone not everyone is handed, and I’m grateful for it. But I’ve often avoided writing about my own privilege, says Dan Crossley, executive director of the Food Ethics Council
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Comment & OpinionChanel No.5 turned scent into shorthand for desirability. Can food & drink do the same?
Perfumes from Jo Malone and Korean fragrance brand Borntostandout show food & drink can play more in the scents space, says Alex Beckett of Mintel Food & Drink
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Comment & OpinionIs the government going soft in its war on plastic?
It’s been yet another turbulent period for Defra and the industry’s war on plastic
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Comment & OpinionCan tariff suspensions make your weekly shop cheap?
The latest round of tariff suspensions on food and fertiliser imports has been sold as cost of living relief, but the impact on prices will be limited, says Sahana Suraj, a research assistant at the University of Sussex
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Comment & OpinionA billion meals go to waste every year – here’s how we fix it
Every year, enough food goes to waste to feed every child in the UK for a month. This group of CEOs from the community redistribution sector believes more needs to be done to rescue it
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Comment & OpinionWhat does Andy Burnham’s new education plan mean for food & drink?
The food industry has welcomed the expansion of Burnham’s plan, based on a policy deployed in Manchester where schools tailor their curriculum to meet the needs of local employers
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Comment & OpinionYour Voice: junk food ads, functional drinks and farming policy
For too long, the debate around children’s health has centred on personal responsibility
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Comment & OpinionIs Lidl’s Little Moons ‘dupe’ a sign the game has changed?
If Lidl’s version is a dupe, it is one that appears to have adopted relatively little in the way of packaging design cues from Little Moons