All comment & opinion articles – Page 414
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Comment & OpinionMorrisons wings it
When Morrisons decided to beam an advert for a baguette onto the 54m-wide wings of the Angel of the North last Friday night, it can’t have imagined the furore that would result.
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Comment & OpinionOwn label needs better brand strategies
Own-label brand ranges seem to lack any real positioning above and beyond taste differentiation and recipe profiles…
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Comment & OpinionWhy does the UK waste so much food?
Yet again the media has sunk its teeth into the food industry, following the recent House of Lords report on food waste…
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Comment & OpinionCould a professional selfie be the key to attracting talent?
The ‘digital footprint’ is a fast-growing recruitment catchphrase…
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Comment & OpinionMeat Free May highlights the need for a defence of meat
My exasperation with the anti-meat lobby has come to the boil. The final straw was Friends of the Earth’s Meat Free May…
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Comment & OpinionTube strike praise as Titania nurses a BrewDog hangover
Unlikely as it sounds – and don’t tell Daddy who would have me shot – hooray for Bob Crow…
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Comment & OpinionMorrisons has finally unleashed its bazooka
With Dalton Philips finally unleashing the proverbial bazooka, Morrisons is certainly going to be cheaper…
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Comment & OpinionPot Noodle's annoying towel makes Brazil look bleak
In 2001, the creators of South Park introduced Towelie – a deliberately pointless, drug-addled anthropomorphic towel…
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Comment & OpinionTesco nominated for Idler Bad Grammar Award
As if Philip Clarke doesn’t have enough problems, Tesco has been nominated for a Bad Grammar Award…
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Comment & OpinionEDLP is here to stay says Kantar. It is working for Aldi
Aldi offers very few promotions and, at the risk of understatement, this doesn’t seem to be doing it any harm…
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Comment & OpinionHalal sector is bursting with potential
It is ludicrous that with a spending power of £30bn a year, a whole consumer group and category is ignored: Muslims…
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Comment & OpinionMorrisons, cheaper
Morrisons’ price cuts and marketing blitz have been broadly welcomed by analysts. Its task now is two-fold…
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Comment & OpinionIt's a small world
It took a meeting in a Paris – a croissant’s throw from a Disneyland park – to bring home to me that grocery can be a small world.
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Comment & OpinionSecret Eaters: a shameful, miserable excuse for entertainment
Diets often bring out the worst in people…
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Comment & OpinionSuperstars: there's a spare desk in my London office
Through my coaching practice I meet a lot of start-up entrepreneurs and most have come into fmcg with little experience…
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Traffic lights are still confusing consumers
It’s good to see more suppliers supporting the government’s attempts to improve food labelling…
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Comment & OpinionPrime time
Amazon has unveiled its latest crack at the grocery market: Prime Pantry is a delivery service that can ship a box of groceries to your doorstep for the sum of $6.
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Comment & OpinionDigital in vogue
Of the 28 recommendations on how to save the high street by Queen of Shops Mary Portas, way back now in December 2011, not a single one mentioned anything about digital technology. In fact, in the climate at the time and for a good while after, if online was spoken ...
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Comment & OpinionHelp shoppers decode confusing health claims
Back in 2001, a Food Advisory Committee report highlighted the confusion over food labelling…
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Comment & OpinionThe food industry must take more responsibility for kids' diets
This September, one in five children starting primary school in the UK will be officially overweight or obese…