All Daily Bread articles – Page 130

  • Comment & Opinion

    I love it when a plan comes together

    2012-03-27T10:50:00Z

    The ACS and the BRC haven’t exactly seen eye to eye on a great deal recently. But today’s warmly received publication of the National Planning Policy Framework has bought an air of harmony to the world of British retail…

  • Richard Brasher, Tesco UK chief executive
    Comment & Opinion

    The fall guy

    2012-03-15T16:31:00Z

    The departure Richard Brasher represents a sad loss to Tesco and an inglorious exit for a man of significant retail talent.

  • Comment & Opinion

    The XXL Factor

    2011-12-21T14:09:00Z

    Fat men with weird facial hair bestowing gifts on total strangers is, of course, a tradition at this time of year.

  • Comment & Opinion

    Ocado clears the fridge when it should be basting the turkey

    2011-12-20T14:10:00Z

    The timing of Ocado’s profits warning couldn’t have been worse, laying out for all to see the extent of its…

  • Comment & Opinion

    Job Dun

    2011-10-19T00:00:00Z

    This morning C&C Group announced another set of healthy results, with profits up for the first half of the year.

  • Comment & Opinion

    Chinese walls

    2011-10-18T00:00:00Z

    After last month handing a new role to Dave Cheesewright, this week has brought more upheaval in the senior ranks at Walmart.

  • Comment & Opinion

    Where will it end?

    2011-10-17T00:00:00Z

    There’s a power dynamic in any relationship, even those where both parties secretly suspect they could do a bit better.

  • Comment & Opinion

    Chewing the fat

    2011-10-13T00:00:00Z

    When Hungary launched a fat tax in the summer it was greeted as much as a chance for witty headlines as a serious proposition for us Brits.

  • Comment & Opinion

    Anuga! Anuga!

    2011-10-11T00:00:00Z

    Every couple of years the world comes to Cologne in the shape of the Anuga food and drink show.

  • Comment & Opinion

    Nice little churner

    2011-10-10T00:00:00Z

    The X Factor: synonymous with tearful contestants, ridiculous ‘twists’ and, these days, extravagant ads for yoghurt.

  • Comment & Opinion

    Tesco's fighting talk

    2011-10-05T00:00:00Z

    Philip Clarke today had the unfortunate task of unveiling what many have described as Tesco’s worst interims for 20 years, despite a tidy rise in profits across the group.

  • Comment & Opinion

    Disconcertingly expensive

    2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

    Don’t say we didn’t warn you. About this time yesterday, Stella brewer AB InBev announced it was hiking wholesale prices by just short of 8% in response to continued upward pressure on costs.

  • Comment & Opinion

    If you don't buy a ticket...

    2011-09-28T00:00:00Z

    Today one national newspaper gave over its first three pages to coverage of the Health Lottery, the “exciting new game” set up by Daily Express and Red Hot Mums owner Richard Desmond. That paper, not surprisingly, is the Daily Express.

  • Comment & Opinion

    Green is the colour

    2011-09-26T00:00:00Z

    Saturday marked the 2011 edition of our annual Green Issue. It’s fashionable to point the finger at the food industry for the UK’s £12bn food waste mountain (as London mayor Boris Johnson continues to do). But there’s far more to it than promotions and excess packaging.

  • Comment & Opinion

    The responsibility Delia

    2011-09-20T00:00:00Z

    There are all kinds of reasons not to like celebrity chefs: envy of their boyish good looks, say, the fact they never have to wash up, or their ability to do things with a courgette and a peeler than would make grown men weep.

  • Comment & Opinion

    Morrisons' missing millions

    2011-09-19T00:00:00Z

    Scanning the national newspapers this morning you might be forgiven for coming to the conclusion that today was the proverbial slow news day.

  • Comment & Opinion

    Rubber gloves at the ready

    2011-09-06T00:00:00Z

    The 76% full-year pre-tax profits slump at own-label cleaning products manufacturer McBride would have had How Clean is Your House stars Kim Woodburn and Aggie MacKenzie donning their rubber gloves in readiness this morning.

  • Comment & Opinion

    Not so big in Japan

    2011-08-31T00:00:00Z

    The principle of not losing face is deeply ingrained in Japanese culture. Luckily for Tesco it’s not such a problem for the Brits.

  • Comment & Opinion

    Batten down the hatches

    2011-08-30T00:00:00Z

    In our current issue, we reveal how Tesco is ratcheting up the pressure in the supermarket milk wars by switching its Creamfields discount brand to semi-skimmed and whole milk for the first time.

  • Comment & Opinion

    Peter Marks' very long game

    2011-08-25T00:00:00Z

    Peter Marks, boss of The Co-operative Group, declared this morning that trading conditions were “the worst” he had seen “in over 40 years of retailing”.