Dalton Philips news, comment and insight – Page 19
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NewsThe new generals of retailing
In just over six months a new generation has emerged in grocery retailing, with new leaders at Asda, Morrisons, M&S and, early next year, Tesco. What are they like? And what are they likely to do? Adam Leyland interviewed all four, along with insiders, ex-colleagues, rivals, analysts and other senior ...
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Comment & OpinionEditor's Comment: Next week's interims mark a new era for Marc & Spencer
Timing is everything and nothing. Certainly Marc Bolland's timing looked as immaculate as his suits when he quit Morrisons a year ago to join Marks & Spencer.
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Comment & OpinionEditor's Comment: Always leave them wanting more...
Can you predict the future? With the theme emblazoned in big fluorescent yellow capital letters across an impressive set, delegates at this week's IGD convention paid hundreds of pounds to get a little taster, from a stellar cast of speakers.
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Comment & OpinionA little healthy debate
If you didn’t work in the industry it would easy to miss how hard food and drink companies have worked in recent years to keep shoppers in shape.
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Editor's Comment: Being first to market can be overrated in business
Being first to market can be overrated in business. the Wright brothers will be remembered for being first; Boeing made the cash.
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NewsMorrisons in new online and c-store experiment
Morrisons this week unveiled its biggest change in strategy since taking over Safeway in 2004 if not since 1958 when it moved from market stall to town-centre store. The retailer is set to enter the hotly contested convenience market...
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Morrisons moves into convenience and online
Morrisons has unveiled sweeping changes to its strategy with its first move into convenience and plans to sell groceries online. Unveiling the retailer’s half-year results Morrisons CEO Dalton Philips also revealed it was planning a significant space review in its stores, editing the existing range in order to create more space ...
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Comment & OpinionBack to the food store
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?
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NewsPhilips to set out Morrisons masterplan
Dalton Philips will this week outline his vision of the future for Morrisons.
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Comment & OpinionDiff'rent strokes
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.
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Waitrose’s Hodgson is lured to Morrisons job
The grocery merry-go-round was spinning faster than ever this week. Hot on the heels of Sir Terry Leahy announcing his retirement from Tesco, Morrisons announced it had poached Waitrose commercial director Richard Hodgson.At Waitrose,...
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NewsMorrisons poaches Waitrose commercial director Hodgson
Waitrose commercial director Richard Hodgson has defected to Morrisons to become the supermarket’s new group commercial director.
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Editor's Comment: Economic uncertainty makes life hard for new recruits in our Power List
If power were just about size, Tesco's Sir Terry Leahy would top our Power List regardless, and the big four would follow in rank order.
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NewsPower List 2010: Power vacuum
The past year has seen an extraordinary shift in the balance of power. With the toughest market conditions since the early 90s, coalition politics, the euro on a precipice and markets in confusion, the new leaders are struggling to fill the void
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NewsRetail Salary Survey 2010: Banking on a bonus
While the bankers look back mournfully on the happy days of bombastic bonuses, supermarket managers are cleaning up. Performance-related payouts are the next big thing, reports Nick Hughes
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Pennycook fails to quell M&S move speculation
Morrisons CFO Richard Pennycook has done little to quell speculation he will be following his former boss Marc Bolland to Marks & Spencer.Speaking as Morrisons reported a surprise slowdown in growth for the first quarter, Pennycook...
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Careers File: Change at the top can wipe billions off a company
The nation may be enthralled with the clash between Brown, Cameron and Clegg, but for those in grocery there is a more interesting battle going on who will replace Andy Bond as chief executive of Asda?
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Grocer 33: Morrisons makes Easter look easy
Morrisons' staff in Bude, Cornwall, managed to serve hordes of customers with a smile over the Easter weekend despite the high volumes of traffic.
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NewsRetailers take stock
Supermarket share prices nosedived when the economy went into recession. Now, with the aid of The Grocer’s Share Price Tracker, our new index comparing the performance of 10 global players plus the UK’s leading grocery plcs, Chloe Ryan looks at how businesses fared in 2009
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Editor's Comment: When Sir Terry goes, contrast the succession planning with Morrisons
What is it about Morrisons that, like the national football team, it can’t seem to find an English manager? To be fair, after Marc ‘Sven Goran’ Bolland, the Irish Dalton Philips is more of a Martin O’Neill than a Fabio Capello.