All comment & opinion articles – Page 260
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Comment & OpinionCould rum really rise up and steal gin’s crown?
Perception is everything and gin’s success comes largely on the back of three phenomenally powerful trends: cocktail culture, premiumisation and health and wellbeing
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Comment & OpinionPat kicks off the new year with a sugary promotion
Happy New Year, readers! I expect I saw some of you down on the Embankment on December 31
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Comment & OpinionEdinburgh boozer gets magic makeover
Harry Potter author JK Rowling famously wrote much of her wizardly opus in an Edinburgh coffee shop
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Comment & OpinionStudents get a brain booster from Domino’s
Domino’s has developed a way to beat the Brexit brain-drain, shoring up the skills of our students
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Comment & OpinionFestivities a distant memory as Activia sets the bar high
Adland’s screens have been clogged with tinsel and ‘indulgent’ food since September
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Comment & OpinionGoing draconian is worth a try, but PHE guidelines risk confusing consumers
Change4Life is a campaign aimed at 4-10 year olds - and for parents it effectively means banning all purchases of chocolate bars, most packets of crisps, yoghurts, biscuits, ice creams and sweets
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Comment & Opinion2017's mega-deals in review - Akeel Sachak
As 2017 draws to a close, we can wave goodbye to another buoyant year for M&A activity, says Akeel Sachak, the global head of consumer for Rothschild.
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Comment & OpinionFive key deals to sum up food and drink M&A in 2017
Catalyst Corporate Finance directors Simon Peacock and Charles Lanceley identify five of the year’s most significant deals, each illustrating trends underpinning M&A activity in food and drink during 2017.
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Comment & OpinionA bleak Christmas for opponents of the rubberstamped Tesco-Booker deal
For bitter opponents, reading the CMA’s verdict must feel like an untimely dose of the norovirus
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Comment & OpinionAn interesting year for food & drink M&A - Shaun Browne
The underlying performance of many UK food manufacturers has been mixed, with many companies not achieving the ambitious targets they set for themselves at the beginning of the year. Despite this, the quantum of M&A activity in the sector has been broadly consistent with 2016.
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Comment & Opinion2 Sisters’ transparency move could be a game-changer
As we approach the fifth anniversary of the horsegate scandal, we should welcome these first steps towards more openness in the food industry
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Comment & OpinionBoundary pushing is great. But do veggies really want bloody burgers?
Is the use of ’obscure techno ingredients’ in vegetarian food a bite too far or a bite into the future?
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Comment & OpinionChristmas dinner, anything but traditional this year
With a week to go until the festive meal, we count down this year’s more surprising innovations – from meat-filled mince pie to sprout salad
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Comment & OpinionThe Grocer’s 15 most-read opinion articles of 2017
From Tesco-Booker to Amazon, Scottish salmon to food audits, here are 15 of our most-read opinion pieces from the past 12 months
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Comment & OpinionProgress made on Brexit must continue at pace in 2018
I will remember 2017 as the year the government agreed to establish a food & drink sector council
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Comment & OpinionAn extraordinary year in grocery, and Brexit is still unclear
For a supermarket boss the next week is the most exciting and most terrifying in the year
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Comment & OpinionSmarter packaging can help win the war on ocean-choking plastic
It’s no surprise that the latest predictions for packaging in the coming year take as their theme waste and sustainability
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Comment & OpinionPhillip Schofield offers up slice of 'Spend It Well' comfort
TV executives seemingly have a giant spinner with a celebrity’s name on it and another with a preposterous premise
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Comment & OpinionVital missing links
Any shopper disinterest in online grocery runs much deeper than trusted access to fresh produce
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Comment & OpinionWe can already learn lessons from the Christmas ads
It’s not over until the last reduced mince pie is sold, but the fierce battle to dominate share of voice at Christmas is approaching its endgame, says Martijn Bertisen of Google