All comment & opinion articles – Page 399
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Comment & OpinionDrinks lobby coasts into battle
The Call Time on Duty campaign ramped up its activity against the duty escalator a notch on Wednesday night with the launch of a new ‘coaster campaign’ to raise public awareness…
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Comment & OpinionNot quite a price war
Phil Clarke stopped well short of launching a fully-fledged attack on the discounters snapping at Tesco’s heels this week…
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Comment & OpinionPastures new
In Justin King and Peter Kendall, the National Farmers’ Union conference yesterday served up two major industry figures on their way to pastures new.
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Comment & OpinionA bruising battle
The Fairtrade Foundation is making bananas the centrepiece of Fairtrade Fortnight. But will it make a difference to banana pricing?
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Comment & OpinionTea 2030: a model of collaboration for sustainability
Last Thursday saw the launch of The Future of Tea – A Hero Crop for 2030, the first output from Tea 2030…
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Comment & OpinionAre you a Facebook 'like fraud' victim?
Last month, I covered the newly updated Facebook content distribution algorithm and the fall in engagement…
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Comment & OpinionMorrisons' Safeway dilemma
So the wolves are sniffing around Morrisons, attracted by the freehold assets and the scope for financial engineering…
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The value to your business of a good succession plan
What next? It’s the question at the heart of any business…
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Comment & OpinionPiggy pleasure at new cock scratchings recipe
Pork scratchings have long been the pint-accompanying snack of choice for the unfussy barfly…
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Comment & OpinionCalamity can provide an excellent customer service opportunity
I’m writing this in Datchet, Berkshire, where I’m stranded at home due to the flooding…
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Comment & OpinionRichmond's peacekeeper serves up a smooth sausage
Having lost its sub-Mumford faux-folk band somewhere, Richmond is focusing on the family with its new sausage ad…
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Comment & OpinionP&F comes up with a revolutionary PR plan for The Co-op Group
Karoline (with a K) has scented a business opportunity in the Co-op’s apparent desperation to reinvent itself…
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Comment & OpinionBRC's business rates proposals come with drawbacks
The BRC’s three potential models to replace the business rates system raise far more questions than they answer…
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Comment & OpinionWilson's City Food Lecture: astute and cleverly subversive
Wilson painted the supermarkets as latterday Gordon Browns, knowing only how to spend, spend, spend…
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Comment & OpinionSupermarkets taken to task
Which? has criticised supermarkets once again for their pricing tactics. But just how dramatic are its charges?
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Comment & OpinionHow to restore consumer confidence in food provenance
The horsemeat scandal led to a huge dent in public confidence in the global supply chain. Here’s how we can restore confidence…
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Comment & OpinionBlue sky thinking
The BRC’s ideas on reforming business rates have certainly produced a few curveballs - but will they fly?
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Comment & OpinionA plea for help
Plea for help or PR stunt? The Co-op wants your views on its future.
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Comment & OpinionHats off to McCambridge for turning the ailing Soreen around
Seven years ago Soreen was a basket case…