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All comment & opinion articles – Page 480
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We can’t allow GM chicken feed
Supermarkets must use their weight to support the ban on modified soya, says Joanna Blythman
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The only thing worse than being talked about
Few people these days will believe there’s really no such thing as bad publicity. Even so, most marketers would consider a few snarky comments from internet critics a price worth paying for acres of free coverage.
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Gluten-free goes super-Novak
On Saturday The Times reported with some gusto that food intolerances were a figment of our oversensitive and pampered western imaginations.
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Clarke starts to feel the quality
In The Times today, Andy Clarke is again banging the drum on his supermarket’s new focus on quality.
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McIntyre’s got Marmite
The inexorably linked worlds of grocery and performance art crossed paths yet again this week.First as art student Nathan Wyburn wowed judges on Britain's Got Talent with a portrait of Michael McIntyre made from Marmite on toast.
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Comment & OpinionIf Haldanes was sold down the river, did its chairman consider the strength of the current?
When newly formed independents started taking on former Somerfield supermarket stores back in the autumn of 2009…
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Careers File: It may be time to take a career health check
Whether you are just moving up the ladder or you are a seasoned veteran, it may be time to think about taking a career health check. Quite often, where you find yourself in your career is not as a result of good planning or natural sequential...
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Saturday Essay: Get smart! It’s time to mobilise your brand
Fmcg brands need to take a lead from the retailers’ use of mobile marketing – and then do it better, says Dave Buckingham
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Comment & OpinionTales of Titania: Bolly, Bristol Cream and a whole lot of vomit
Picture the scene. I'm looking my best in a client-satisfying LBD (Alexander McQueen) paid for (£1,430) by Karoline (with a K) "because we really need to keep this account darling".
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Third Party: Next gen EDI is here. Don’t get left behind
There are huge benefits to moving your electronic trading to next generation web-based platforms, says David Grosvenor
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Is Iceland about to melt away?
If Malcolm Walker and co decide not to buy Iceland, it could well disappear.
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Fears over E242 in school drinks
Sir, Your feature 'Soft drinks harden up' (Focus on Soft Drinks, The Grocer, 30 April) was interesting and it was good that school drinks were touched on. However it illustrates the confusion over the phrase ' school compliance'.
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Hard cheese, Jay's jibes and Linda Lusardi
Yesterday The Grocer held its 2011 Own Label Food & Drink Awards, sponsored by PLMA and Cambridge Market Research.
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'Bomber' Harris goes to war
Aside from Tesco appointing its next chairman, Philip Clarke unveiling a new strategy for the UK’s largest grocer, Sainsbury’s posting stellar profits and Ocado bizarrely blaming the bank holidays for a slowdown in sales while everyone else was struggling to match demand, it was shaping up to be a pretty quiet news day.
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Making hay while the sun shines
Time to crack open the Champagne? Last week The Grocer reported a record Easter for independents, while Booker and P&H were among the wholesalers toasting “massive growth” in booze as well as other essentials over the long weekends.
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Ups, downs and notable omissions
Yesterday the Sunday Times published its annual Rich List. Once again, the ranking of the UK’s 1,000 individuals and families with the most cash to splash featured its fair share of figures from our sector.
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Second Opinion: Finally, a chance to cut red tape
But simplifying rules is better than ‘slash and burn’. The public realises this, says Kevin Hawkins
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Stick to the British Lion egg standard
Sir, In the letter 'Let's get rid of battery eggs' (The Grocer, 16 April), Alice Clark fails to mention that conventional battery cages are already in the process of being phased out, to be replaced by new more animal welfare-friendly enriched...
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Comment & OpinionA blind date with the Dolmio puppets
Italy doesn’t do Hairy Bikers - just immaculately groomed Gucci models sipping espresso as their scooters zip from one bunga-bunga party to the next.
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Comment & OpinionTales of Titania: Spots, stripes and pocket battleships
After missing out on the PR contract of a lifetime (promoting chocolate Rich Tea biscuits) I finally shook off my sour Royal Wedding mood and got into the spirit of the thing (mostly gin) at an 'exclusive' (which is PR-speak for lightly attended)...