All Daily Bread articles – Page 134
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Comment & Opinion
The domino effect
As the grocery trade continues to digest the demise of wholesalers DBC and Eskimo, there were further dispatches today from the doom and gloom department…
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Comment & Opinion
The blue and white stripes bow out
As shoppers rush to stores to buy their souvenir blue-striped Value baked bean tins,the canning of Tesco’s Value range marks the end of an era stretching back almost two decades. It could also mark the start of a blitz of activity from the supermarket giant over the next few weeks…
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When the going gets tuff...
“You should never be afraid to copy what your friendly multiple’s latest idea is!” That advice came last weekend from Paul Delves, MD of leading independent Harry Tuffins…
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Comment & Opinion
Game changer
Game Group has been given the chance to hit the reset button. OpCapita - no stranger to headline-grabbing deals after snapping up Comet for £2 last year…
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Co-op banks on modernisation
The Co-operative Group, the nation’s fifth biggest supermarket, released its full-year results this morning…
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Comment & Opinion
Sausage roll model
Pasty-dodger George Osborne probably expected the fallout from the budget to focus on the top rate tax cut to 45p, which gave rich people more cash, or the freeze on tax allowances for pensioners, which gave poor people less…
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Comment & Opinion
I love it when a plan comes together
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…
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Comment & OpinionThe fall guy
The departure Richard Brasher represents a sad loss to Tesco and an inglorious exit for a man of significant retail talent.
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Comment & Opinion
The XXL Factor
Fat men with weird facial hair bestowing gifts on total strangers is, of course, a tradition at this time of year.
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Ocado clears the fridge when it should be basting the turkey
The timing of Ocado’s profits warning couldn’t have been worse, laying out for all to see the extent of its…
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Comment & Opinion
Job Dun
This morning C&C Group announced another set of healthy results, with profits up for the first half of the year.
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Comment & Opinion
Chinese walls
After last month handing a new role to Dave Cheesewright, this week has brought more upheaval in the senior ranks at Walmart.
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Comment & Opinion
Where will it end?
There’s a power dynamic in any relationship, even those where both parties secretly suspect they could do a bit better.
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Comment & Opinion
Chewing the fat
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.
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Comment & Opinion
Anuga! Anuga!
Every couple of years the world comes to Cologne in the shape of the Anuga food and drink show.
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Comment & Opinion
Nice little churner
The X Factor: synonymous with tearful contestants, ridiculous ‘twists’ and, these days, extravagant ads for yoghurt.
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Comment & Opinion
Tesco's fighting talk
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.
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Comment & Opinion
Disconcertingly expensive
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.
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Comment & Opinion
If you don't buy a ticket...
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.
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Comment & Opinion
Green is the colour
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.