All comment & opinion articles – Page 458
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Busybodies and disapprovers are on the march
April is the cruellest month, wrote TS Eliot. In political terms, the present one is also turning out to be the most perverse.
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Will Adjudicator be all bark and no bite?
The industry waits with bated breath to see if the forthcoming Queen’s speech contains proposals for a Grocery Code Adjudicator.
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Tesco's £1bn gamble? It would have been riskier to do nothing
Facing the UK’s Fourth Estate this week, a cheery Philip Clarke briefly started munching on some Everyday Value grapes as Tesco’s CEO outlined his vision.
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Did Phil answer the big questions?
Considering he was announcing Tesco’s first fall in UK profits for two decades, chief executive Philip Clarke appeared a remarkable relaxed man as he faced the world’s press in London today…
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Comment & OpinionDid Phil answer the big questions?
Considering he was announcing Tesco’s first fall in UK profits for two decades, chief executive Philip Clarke appeared remarkably relaxed as he faced the world’s press in London.
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Marc Bolland's lucky dip
Ken Livingstone and Marc Bolland are lucky men - both seem to have found millions of pounds down the back of the proverbial sofa…
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Brands on the run
The government today launched its much anticipated consultation into whether to force tobacco manufacturers to remove all branding from their | products in a move it hopes will help reduce the 100,000 deaths a year it says are caused by smoking.
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Ponderous, patronising - and certainly not Perky
Giles Coren and Sue Perkins may have been intensely irritating prancing around in period costume, but at least they were vaguely dynamic.
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Want great summer sales? Plan ahead
With the 2012 Olympics just around the corner, retailers in London and other host locations will soon see a dramatic increase in the number of potential customers passing by.
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A creeping permafrost at Tesco?
The boardroom of Britain’s largest retailer is probably a cold and mirthless place at the moment.
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DBC's rapid descent reminds us how quickly a business can unravel
Analysts at Company Watch put 173 of the UK’s 680 largest food and drinks manufacturers on red alert this week, noting their vulnerability to insolvency…
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Food poverty affects UK too
For decades, anyone watching world food commodity prices saw dropping graphs
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Impact and interest: how to make the most of your job situation
There are some easy pointers to making an impression: maintain eye contact, have a firm handshake, introduce yourself with confidence and smile.
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A Scottish FSA is a daft idea
The Scudamore report was published this week, reviewing what should happen to food standards in Scotland as a result of changes made to the FSA in England.
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Olympic feats of boozing and chutzpah
Here in London’s busy West End, thoughts are turning to the Olympics and how an agency like P&F, held together with string, booze and chutzpah at the best of times, will cope with three weeks of utter disruption.
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Crunchy is 30 years old
Your story ‘Wyke Farms Crunchy is “a first” for cheese’ claims Crunchy Extra Mature Farmhouse Cheddar is “a first for the category”…
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Tesco's video nation
Yesterday Tesco made the overdue admission that it’s time to freshen up its advertising. Today came further evidence of the chain’s efforts to change the conversation…
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Goodbye, red brick road?
News of yet more upheaval came from Tesco today, as the supermarket giant very publicly invited agencies to pitch for an advertising account worth £110m a year…
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The domino effect
As the grocery trade continues to digest the demise of wholesalers DBC and Eskimo, there were further dispatches today from the doom and gloom department…
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Are the employment law changes really as helpful as they seem?
April means only one thing in the HR world - employment law.