All Daily Bread articles – Page 139

  • DOCBROWN
    Comment & Opinion

    Back to the food store

    2010-09-09T00:00:00Z

    What do you get if you cross a supermarket chain and Doc Emmett Brown, the mad but genius scientist from Back to the Future who invested time travelling Delorean?

  • THORNTONS-415X275
    Comment & Opinion

    Sweet dreams are made of this

    2010-09-08T00:00:00Z

    Thorntons is battling with sliding profits as today’s results reveal but the company is ploughing more money into its retail arm this year and its management is confident this will sweeten its sales in the long run.

  • OCADO
    Comment & Opinion

    Diff'rent strokes

    2010-09-06T00:00:00Z

    It’s the cautious traditionalist versus the high-tech upstart. The Bradford bruiser versus the southern dandy. For investors, it’s the safe bet versus the long shot.

  • SCOTCH WHISKY GENERIC
    Comment & Opinion

    Fire in their bellies

    2010-09-02T16:39:20.867Z

    The Scottish government confounded the trade today by forging ahead with plans to go it alone on minimum pricing for alcohol.

  • PETER MARKS THE CO-OP
    Comment & Opinion

    Wide of the Marks

    2010-08-26T00:00:00Z

    Those following the ups and downs of The Co-op’s acquisition of Somerfield would not have been surprised by the society’s negative like-for-likes this morning.

  • Comment & Opinion

    Missionary Mars

    2010-08-25T00:00:00Z

    Mars is cutting the dreaded satfats in its eponymous chocolate bars by 15%.

  • Comment & Opinion

    Rage against the machines

    2010-08-23T00:00:00Z

    Today’s headlines have been dominated by the menace of self-scan tills. (That, and the revelation some X-Factor contestants can’t really sing.)