All Daily Bread articles – Page 130
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Comment & OpinionMetro closes the Book on Makro
Last week we asked Booker CEO Charles Wilson whether the wholesaler’s £63.4m net cash…
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Comment & Opinion
Metro closes the book on Makro
Last week we asked Booker CEO Charles Wilson whether the wholesaler’s £63.4m net cash was burning a hole in his pocket. Wilson’s reply was that he was looking at acquisitions that were “right for Booker”…
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Douze points from the Portas jury
From flash mobs, to pop up shops, town criers to Dragons’ Den competitions - yes, in case you missed the latest chapter of the Mary Portas and Grant Shapps show it was entertaining stuff, if the jury still remains very much out on the long term impact of their bid to rescue our High Streets..
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Comment & OpinionBooker's £63.4m question
Booker may not be sexy but the UK’s top cash & carry could start generating some serious column…
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Booker's £63.4M question
Booker may be the leading player in the cash & carry market but wholesaling isn’t a sexy sector to be in. The company therefore sometimes doesn’t command the column inches its retail counterparts do…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.