All Daily Bread articles – Page 132
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Comment & Opinion
The best that Mac can get?
Procter & Gamble today issued its second profits warning in as many months, cutting sales and earnings for the coming quarter and the year as a whole.
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Comment & Opinion
The best that Mac can get
Procter & Gamble today issued its second profits warning in as many months. The consumer goods giant, whose portfolio includes Gillette, Head & Shoulders and Duracell, cut forecasts for sales and earnings for the coming quarter and the year as a whole…
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Comment & Opinion
Sayonara, Tsurakame
So much for a clean break. Tesco yesterday revealed the details of its long-awaited exit from Japan, first announced last summer.
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Comment & Opinion
Sayonara, Tsurakame
So much for a clean break. Tesco yesterday revealed the details of its long-awaited exit from Japan, first announced last summer…
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Comment & Opinion
In my day, lad...
Sir Ken Morrison last week used the AGM of the supermarket he founded to reflect on the good old days when Morrisons didn’t concern itself with fads like the internet.
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Comment & Opinion
In my day, lad...
We all know the past looks rosier the further you get from it. Sir Ken Morrison last week used the AGM of the supermarket he founded to cast an admiring eye back to the good old days when Morrisons didn’t concern itself with fads like convenience retailing and the internet…
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Comment & Opinion
Reason to be cheerful?
For a company that put so much weight behind the Diamond Jubilee, Sainsbury’s was remarkably coy about its performance over the four-day weekend in a conference call with press this morning following its first-quarter results.As well as sponsoring the Jubilee Pageant, Diamond Jubilee Beacons and Jubilee Woods Project, Sainsbury’s even ...
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Comment & Opinion
Sainsbury's opens a new chapter
Sainsbury’s added another string to its entertainment bow today with a swoop for Anobii, an online vendor that lets users buy and review books from a library of 60,000 titles…
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Comment & Opinion
The second most stressful job in england
As Roy Hodgson will know, you don’t get much time these days to get things right when you’re at the top. For Tesco boss Philip Clarke the scrutiny is perhaps even more severe…
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Comment & Opinion
Long to rain over us
Damp squib or roaring success? While the weather did its best to put a dampener on the Jubilee celebrations, TV screens were nevertheless filled with scenes of hardy folk queuing for hours to wave at a passing hat.
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Comment & Opinion
Morrison's southern exposure
As Dalton Philips proudly invited a bunch of hungry hacks to help themselves to the sourdough at Morrisons’ ‘Store of the Future’ in Tunbridge Wells yesterday, it struck a chord with those who remembered the flak the retailer copped following its acquisition of Safeway in 2004…
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Comment & OpinionMorrisons' southern exposure
Tunbridge Wells was an apt location for Morrisons to announce a renewed assault of the south, following its initial failure in the Royal town six years ago.
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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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Comment & Opinion
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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Comment & Opinion
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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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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Comment & Opinion
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…