All Daily Bread articles – Page 127
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Comment & Opinion
Bonus balls
With our annual Power List on the way this weekend, it was apt to that two of the trade’s most closely watched leaders were yesterday back in the spotlight…
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Comment & Opinion
No regrets for Greencore
If things had gone differently and Ranjit Boparan hadn’t made his audacious eleventh-hour grab for Northern Foods we might have been reporting on the results of Essenta Foods this morning…
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Will cider wars go pear-shaped for Strongbow?
As our sportsmen do battle on the fields of Poland, Ukraine and Stratford this summer, another clash of the titans will be raging in the drinks aisle…
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Comment & Opinion
An inconvenient fruit
Getting people to eat healthily is no easy task. Fresh produce consumption in the UK continues to fall, and despite high-profile marketing campaigns for 5 A Day, just one in five adults currently eats the recommended five portions of fruit and veg…
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Comment & Opinion
Fat chance of another tax...isn't there?
The health lobby went back on the offensive last night with a classic pincer movement. Two studies simultaneously argued for the imposition of more legislation to stop Britons gorging on fatty and sugary foods. Looks like it’s celery sticks all round for the Jubilee weekend…
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Hovis where the hardship is
The latest Hovis ad might help to sell loaves of bread but it’s unlikely to get youngsters rushing into farming. On Sunday night - as 11.4 million viewers tuned in to Britain’s Got Talent to see a dog crowned the most gifted amateur performer in Britain…
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Comment & Opinion
The thick end of the wedge
Just a few weeks ago The Grocer questioned whether the drinks trade had the stomach for a protracted legal battle over minimum pricing…
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Comment & Opinion
Let tweeting dogs lie
BrewDog generates a lot of noise proportional for its size. Given its penchant for ‘crap beer amnesties’ and bottles made from stuffed squirrels, you sometimes wonder whether the main business of the Scots tyro is craft beer, as it claims, or publicity…
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Comment & Opinion
Space race goes into stasis
Justin King was clear on why Sainsbury’s got the impressive results it did - Brand Match.
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Comment & Opinion
King prawns and cocktails
The idea of cocktail-themed seafood jelly shots raised plenty of eyebrows in Grocer Towers (and turned a couple of stomachs) when I wrote about them last week, so I couldn’t wait to try them out myself - and my colleagues…
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Comment & Opinion
A week is a long time in dairy
Last week this column noted how life is rarely dull in dairy. And we got another demonstration today of how quickly things can change in the sector…
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Comment & Opinion
Unilever's design for life
There’s a hint of Marlon Brando about Paul Polman, chief executive of Unilever, which would make him on the surface an unlikely godfather for a subject like sustainability, even if it wasn’t for his position as the head of a global FMCG titan.But Polman has taken another step towards cementing ...
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Comment & OpinionUnilever's design for life
There’s a hint of Marlon Brando about Paul Polman, chief executive of Unilever, making him an unlikely godfather for a subject like sustainability.
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Comment & Opinion
Clarke and the 'what if' factor
Buried on page 18 of the Tesco results presentation was a section on its Japanese operations, with a brutally blunt heading at the top: ‘Discontinued’.
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Comment & OpinionClarke and the ‘what if’ factor
Tesco headed up the section on its Japanese operations with the brutally blunt heading ‘Discontinued’. Not so for the US - yet.
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Comment & Opinion
Cold facts and hard potatoes
GM, it’s fair to say, remains one of the food industry’s hottest political potatoes. Whether it’s stunts against GM wheat, outrage against supposedly GM broccoli or controversy over feed requirements, there are few food-related issues…
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Comment & OpinionCold facts and hot potatoes
Whether it’s stunts against GM wheat, outrage at iffy broccoli or controversy over feed requirements, few issues…
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Comment & Opinion
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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Comment & Opinion
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…