All comment & opinion articles – Page 415
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Comment & OpinionNonsense brand anniversaries and Tesco-inspired working hours
Top of the list of spurious client requests we get is the need to celebrate a nonsense anniversary…
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Comment & OpinionDr Oetker pizzeria pretence causes confusion in Manchester
Much excitement in Manchester last week as the imaginatively named La Pizzeria Ristorante threw open its doors…
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Comment & OpinionPhileas Fogg dresses up to establish worldly cred
Phileas Fogg has been portrayed on screen by Pierce Brosnan, Steve Coogan and a cartoon lion…
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Comment & OpinionWhat makes you an entrepreneur... and can you become one?
We hear a lot today about entrepreneurship. But what exactly makes one person over another an entrepreneur?…
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Comment & OpinionWe need clearer unit pricing for food
With incomes squeezed and food prices continuing to rise, many people are shopping around for the best prices…
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Show your Love, Co-op
The Co-operative’s own-brand relaunch – to ‘Loved by Us’ – is interesting…
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Private equity has a hunger for food and drink brands
There is a growing appetite among private equity firms to invest in food and drink,…
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Comment & OpinionGloria Hunniford helms the latest rip into rip-off tactics
The recent absence of ‘Rip Off…’ programmes from the schedules had me wondering if programme makers had let Rip Off RIP…
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Comment & OpinionThe £250k lab burger - why?
The launch of lab-grown ‘meat’ in London on 5 August 5 was brilliantly done. But questions arise…
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Comment & OpinionECJ says no to health claim loopholes
It is always a worry when the courts start to interpret new legislation…
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Comment & OpinionRebuild trust sideways not upwards
I promise to pay the bearer on demand the sum of…”. These are the words to be found on every banknote in the country…
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Comment & OpinionTesco’s Extra refurb is impressive... but it must prove itself
‘Woman has Baby’ was Private Eye’s front cover on the birth of Prince George. So here’s another headline from the Private Eye school: ‘Supermarket updates Store’…
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Comment & OpinionDon't whine about low-alcohol wine
Recent headlines have been screaming that the government is planning to “water down wine” to put a stop to “middle class drinking”. But lower-ABV wine has come a long way…
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Comment & OpinionHail real ale
News that more women are drinking beer, in the week of the Great British Beer Festival, doesn’t come as a huge surprise…
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Comment & OpinionBurnt fingers
Labour shadow immigration minister Chris Bryant has been contorting all over the shop in the last two days…
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Comment & OpinionThe new new potato
New potatoes are not what they used to be. Which is why the Potato Council has come up with a new standard defintion…
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Male grooming decline is not consumers' fault
I was surprised that the value decline in male grooming was attributed to unemployment and celebrity grooming habits…
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Comment & OpinionMarmite maltreaters shamed in winning ad
Marmite’s new TV ad has apparently prompted hundreds of complaints to the ASA…
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Titania: Co-op spurns our Worthy But Dull pitch for sub-brand
Daddy believes the Co-op is run by the sort of people who used to sell the Socialist Worker in Kensington High Street…
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Comment & OpinionEasyFoodstore? A dystopian vision
Stelios was born into wealth. But instead of bumming around on yachts, he has applied himself to wealth creation…