All Daily Bread articles – Page 128
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Comment & OpinionManchester united
Media interest in The Co-operative Group has never been greater after the society scored a deal to…
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Comment & Opinion
Tesco's crossroads over traffic lights
There will have been a few red, amber and even green faces at Tesco HQ this week, the way the news…
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Tesco's crossroads over traffic lights
There will have been a few red, amber and even green faces at Tesco HQ this week, the way the news agenda has gone…
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Still waters run cheap
As the mercury soared over the weekend, the national press were getting hot under the collar about the latest nefarious deeds of Britain’s endlessly cynical supermarkets…
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Sunshine on Leiths
Leiths School of Food and Wine in West London was the setting for Asda to announce a 0.7% boost in Q2 like for like sales today.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Dixon's next trick
Taking over a business where like-for-like sales are falling by more than 6% is not an enviable task…