All comment & opinion articles – Page 417
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Comment & OpinionTyrrells goes for a packet
Tyrrells has proved a tasty investment for Langholm Capital, having bought it for £30m and sold it for £100m…
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Comment & OpinionAll's fair in love and 'phoney war'
Sometimes in this job it’s hard to sit back, take time out and enjoy the great things happening in the industry.
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Comment & OpinionMeat dreams
What are the prospects for the world’s first in-vitro burger, developed at a cost of €250,000 and unveiled at an event in London?
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Comment & OpinionResponsibility adrift
The storm clouds gathering over the government’s Responsibility Deal grew ever more menacing today as the Association of Directors of Public Health became the latest body to walk out…
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Comment & OpinionTesco: there's life in the dinosaur yet
Tesco will attempt to reinvent the out-of-town hypermarket with Thai-style malls. Can it prove the dinosaur isn’t dead?…
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Comment & OpinionPineapple fruit-on-flesh mystery solved
Ever wondered why you often find pineapple atop your slab of gammon?…
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Comment & OpinionRoyal baby envy, lardy plan and broccoli glut good news
Although this is an office full of women we are being determinedly unbroody as babymania reaches new heights…
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Comment & OpinionThe social media baby boom
It remains undeniable that the future king has been born into a social media world…
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Morrisons fish mislabelling shows need for label accuracy
The mislabelling of fish at Morrisons Peterhead shows consumers are now more concerned with accurate information…
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Comment & OpinionSuperScrimpers offered excellent advice to an undeserving lot
I was awaiting SuperScrimpers: Deals on Meals with anticipation…
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Comment & OpinionEnd of the nanny state?
After years of clamour for state manipulation of eating habits, a health minister has rejected dietary micro-management…
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Comment & OpinionPay attention to the purchase experience
You’d have to pay me to get me to my local Asda, bombarded as you are by hanging signs and blaring radio ads…
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Comment & OpinionMars UK on why food is a community affair
This year at Mars Food UK we’re celebrating 50 years of manufacturing at our site in King’s Lynn in the UK…
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Comment & OpinionSoft drinks fizz
After last year’s non-starter of a summer, the recent hot spell is welcome news for soft drinks companies…
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Comment & OpinionA baby is born
Did you hear the news? A baby was born yesterday – and the nation has gone into meltdown…
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Comment & OpinionClarke's new era - or not
Tesco boss Philip Clarke supposedly signalled the end of an era for cheap supermarket produce this weekend…
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Hot weather leads to lolly debate at Puff & Fluff PR
Karoline (with a K) normally wafts through life and the office like a chiffon-clad battleship…
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Comment & OpinionMulti-tasking is dead! Concentrate on maintaining focus
An interesting problem surfaced this week: a client described her life as feeling subject to a “tweeting effect”…
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Comment & OpinionTour de France presents a cycling chance for fmcg brands
For fmcg brands, sports sponsorship is an highly competitive market…
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Comment & OpinionSupermarkets operating on an uneven playing field? No kidding
It’s extraordinary that Dalton Philips is already calling for a tax on his fledgling online business…