All comment & opinion articles – Page 425
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Clients, Change4Life jealousy and Waitrose's coup
How do you stop big multinational food clients killing every PR idea stone cold dead?…
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Retailers and brands must work together on experience
Tesco’s results and confirmation it is exiting the US underscored the degree to which it had underinvested in Britain…
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Advertisers: demand practical consumer data!
Perhaps like no other, the food and drink sector relies on well-targeted advertising to drive sales…
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Who will fill the food waste knowledge gap?
Richard Benyon dared to offer the public advice on how they could reduce the colossal amount of food they waste…
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Sky documentary on Greggs shows baker has its work cut out
As timing goes, it doesn’t get much worse than issuing a profit warning on the very day a new series about you starts…
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There are no two-day courses to ensure buyer collaboration
How to sell? Well, that rather depends on what you are selling…
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M&S, Tesco, Morrisons - how the mighty have fallen
In our industry we have three big retailers who once could do no wrong and are now struggling…
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Comment & OpinionWhy the lacklustre media response to GM and alcohol legislation?
As a journalist, it’s a strange thing to say, but I’m puzzled by the media…
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Comment & OpinionPlain packs - back on the shelf?
Today the Department of Health told me of its surprise at a story in The Sun proclaiming the news the PM had scrapped plans to force tobacco into plain packs…
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Comment & OpinionDigging for good in Kenya
Fourteen female execs from the food and hospitality industry are in Kenya this week digging a pond for a remote village…
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Comment & OpinionBust-up on the high street
Can high-street tsar Mary Portas see eye-to-eye with Tesco on the future of the British high street?
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Lloyds deal collapse a bitter blow for Co-op's Peter Marks
This week, The Co-operative Group was forced to pull out of its deal to acquire 632 Lloyds Bank branches….
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Comment & OpinionSour notes
Barely had the fuss over Weetabix’s sourcing of non-UK wheat died down last week than questions over another brand’s British credentials began to pop up.
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Comment & OpinionChilled ready meals unfairly dragged into 'Horsegate'
The hugely valuable chilled ready meals category has been unfairly dragged into the horsemeat scandal, but the damage is d…
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Time management begins at home... not with a diary system
As I prepared for a ‘strategic’ time management workshop recently, I wondered what magic bullet the attendees were after…
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Watch out for fraudsters
Your article ‘Police close in on fraudsters posing as top grocery execs’ highlights one example of online scams that are becoming increasingly common.
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Why ITV1's Food Glorious Food leaves a bad taste
Why Food Glorious Food leaves a bad taste, despite charming contestants and not unglorious food…
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Britain needs a new food framework
Last week, David Heath, Defra minister for food, told the Telegraph Britain needs to produce more food. He’s right…
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NFU urges - don't let British cheese be devalued
Recent comments by First Milk chairman Bill Musto made me ponder the current state of cheese supply chains…
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Food policy: give consumers more of a say
The continuing horsemeat scandal has served to highlight the many challenges affecting the food chain…