All Daily Bread articles – Page 125
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Comment & Opinion
Fag break, M'Lud?
Smokers, tobacco companies and those with an aversion to government nannyism vowed to fight on today after the latest setback for opponents of plans to force tobacco into plain packaging…
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Comment & Opinion
Sainsbury's main event
‘Thanks for the warm-up.’ So goes the wry poster campaign for Channel Four’s coverage of the Paralympics, which get underway in a couple of weeks’ time…
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Comment & Opinion
Never on a Sunday?
It would have come as no surprise to those in the small shops sector to have heard senior Tory MP calls over the weekend to make the temporary extension to Sunday Trading permanent…
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Making hoy while the sun shines
Sponsorship can be a fickle thing. Remember how quickly Coca-Cola dropped Wayne Rooney when he became entangled in negative publicity - or how GSK quietly brushed Ashley Young under the carpet after his woeful showing in Euros 2012…
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Comment & Opinion
A man who made his marks
Peter Marks, the chief executive of The Co-operative Group, announced his retirement this morning. Marks, who has been at the helm for the past six years, and has worked in the wider co-op movement for an impressive 45 years, steps down in May next year…
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Comment & Opinion
It's all cyclical for Andy Bond
It wasn’t quite as dramatic as James Bond pushing the Queen out of a helicopter over the Olympic Park. But a startling cameo by Andy Bond in today’s Telegraph was still well worth a look…
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A slow-burner for Weetabix
Last month Kellogg’s was in hot water with the advertising watchdog over calorie claims relating to its Special K cereal…
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Yellow jersey, golden fleece
At just 10 stone and eight pounds, there’s not enough of Brad Wiggins to go round everyone who wants a piece of him…
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Comment & Opinion
The lazy games
Yesterday Daily Bread flagged up research showing Britons couldn’t care less where their food comes from. Today we found out why…
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Comment & Opinion
Food insecurity
The amount of noise being generated over dairy production might suggest otherwise, but Brits don’t care about where their food comes from. That’s the finding, anyway, of a recent report for the European Commission on attitudes towards “food security, food quality and the countryside”.
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Comment & Opinion
All's fair in love and dairy
Shoppers spent just shy of €5bn on Fairtrade goods last year – up 12% on the previous year. That was also the rate growth in the UK, which remains the biggest market for the ethical kitemark…
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Comment & Opinion
If the cap fits...
A few days ago a host of respectable news sources, and the Daily Mail, were hoaxed by a video - admittedly, one that was pretty well made - purporting to show a giant leap in packaging by Coca-Cola.
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Comment & Opinion
Pint taken, says Paice
One popular movie magazine has a strand of quick-fire interviews called How Much is a Pint of Milk? The idea is to find out whether the stars of the silver screen have their feet on the ground or their head in the clouds…
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Comment & Opinion
Dixon's next trick
Taking over a business where like-for-like sales are falling by more than 6% is not an enviable task…
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Comment & Opinion
Click and connect
Over the weekend, FT.com’s Robert Shrimsley - whose column is modestly sub-headed ‘the national conversation’ - riffs at considerable length on his emotional separation from ‘Ocado man’…
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Comment & Opinion
Kellogg's crying over spilt milk
As another dairy processor today cut the price paid to its farmers, Kellogg’s was also left crying over spilt milk.
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Comment & Opinion
Out of pocket, out of love
The thing about London buses is that you’re never quite sure if they’ll turn up at all. On the other hand, there was a grim inevitability about today’s news that first Dairy Crest and then Arla would follow Robert Wiseman’s lead in cutting the farmgate price of milk…
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Comment & Opinion
Live fast, die young
So Euro 2012 is done and dusted and, for today at least, a nation turns its hungry eyes to SW19 in the hope that Britain’s brave Andy Murray doesn’t become Scottish flop Andy Murray again…
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Comment & Opinion
Fifteen minutes of Jamies fame
Is Jamie Oliver the Andy Warhol of food? Probably not. It’s unlikely he’ll immortalise Yeo Valley the way Warhol did Campbell’s soup, but at the very least he’ll guarantee the yoghurt brand, along with Uncle Ben’s rice, 15 minutes of fame…