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Get cooking with social TV
“I finally cracked it.” These were some of the last words of the late, great Apple CEO Steve Jobs.
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Alcohol pricing: will health lobby hold sway?
The health lobby’s move towards having a greater say in alcohol licensing decisions has big implications for supermarkets and off-licences.
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Sell your award-winning credentials
With awards season nearly here, now’s the time to enter. It’s not just the winners that stand to benefit.
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Buyers hate Pringles, but Kellogg's has spotted a lovely opportunity
When P&G announced that it was selling to Diamond in a $2.3bn paper and cash deal, it seemed ready to…
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Time to change roles? Follow your instincts and do your research!
I have been offered a job that looks perfect on paper, but my gut reaction is that something is wrong. Should I follow my head or my heart?
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Happy chemicals and super-powered staples
How refreshing - an investigation into what’s good about the food we eat rather than more lazy “it’s all carcinogenic…
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Oakham? More like Oak-sham, claims Which?
The new report from Which? lifts the lid on the nefarious practice of supermarkets naming their fresh ranges things like Happy Comfort Wellness Farm rather than Cage of Doom or Fiefdom of Impoverished Serfs.
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A healthy way to start your day?
Cereals have for too long embodied wider problems that make it difficult to eat healthily: marketed as healthy…
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Nancy fancies refurb king
Watchers of Marks & Spencer will have been intrigued to see the retailer’s former boss, Sir Stuart Rose
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We should fight hunger as well as obesity
Thousands of column inches and hours of TV coverage will be devoted to Sport Relief on 23-25 March, and powerful brands will play an important role in it. But support for good causes is not just the domain of big players.
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Short-termism is a habit retailers must kick
The storm surrounding bankers’ bonuses represents the most overt example of a developing public antipathy towards capitalism.
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We mustn't sideline sustainability
This June, the UN hosts the Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro. It’s a return to Rio to stock-take the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development
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Twitter teens trending towards the super-strength
Ever heard of displacement marketing? It’s when you make one of your products so unattractive shoppers have no choice but to trade up to something else.
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It's time to talk tax: avoidance and value added
I’m not sure whether the Portas Pilots are a sign of quite how broke the UK government is, or how futile it believes this exercise is.
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Could the indexing of happiness really affect how we work?
What’s most important in your job? Is it security? Money? Career prospects? Or is it, as the American Declaration of Independence says, the pursuit of happiness that makes you get out of bed every morning?Happiness is happening this year. David Cameron believes a statistical measure of the nation’s wellbeing should ...
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Why did Ugo struggle when all other discounters are flying?
Next week, Ugo Stores should have been celebrating its first anniversary. Instead, the fledgling discount chain…
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Why are MPs so relentlessly anti-retail?
Why is it so difficult to get some parliamentarians to understand how the world works?
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Bring back our forgotten foods
Protection of our country’s distinctive, authentic foods can’t come soon enough; life is hard for the dedicated people who keep them going.
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Carte blanc for the hungry Frenchman
What’s with all the ‘Hungry’ programmes at the moment? We’ve had The Hungry Sailors, Hugh’s Three Hungry Boys and now there’s The Very Hungry Frenchman.
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It's tough up north (of Camden)
So all the shops up North are now empty (and not just Ugo, apparently). I wouldn’t know, as PR girls are temperamentally unsuited to travel north of Camden.