All articles by George Nott – Page 17
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Comment & OpinionThe Rest Is Entertainment: Richard Osman and Marina Hyde dissect KSI meltdown
Nothing says ‘this doesn’t bother me at all’ like dozens of tweets, reaction posts and fake apology videos in response to ‘this’
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NewsFormer Defra secretary George Eustice joins ElfBar and Lost Mary advisory board
The board has been assembled by Hong Kong company HG Innovation to “provide strategic advice” as the vape brand owner looks to maintain growth in the UK market
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Comment & OpinionUnilever has surrendered to social media bully Elon Musk
It feels like Unilever has surrendered to the bully who declared ‘war’ on it, says The Grocer’s technology editor George Nott
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NewsWilko launches its first rapid delivery service with Deliveroo
It marks the first time Wilko has offered an on-demand, rapid delivery service. The available range covers garden, home, kitchen, DIY, cleaning, petcare and storage
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NewsMorrisons boosts immediacy offering with expanded Uber Eats deal
The supermarket has been working with Uber Eats for the past two years, offering delivery from its estate of Morrisons Daily convenience stores
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NewsCo-op ramps up retail media offering with rollout of hundreds of front of store screens
The Co-op Media Network (CMN) said new screens will appear at 300 of Co-op’s busiest, urban stores, at a rate of 24 stores a month until January next year
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NewsM&M’s turns tables on trick or treaters in Ring doorbell campaign
Timed for the run-up to Halloween, the marketing campaign sees callers getting “fun and festive quick replies” from Red
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InterviewsAsh CEO Deborah Arnott’s 21-year battle with Big Tobacco
Deborah Arnott is stepping down after 21 years. She looks back on her battle with the tobacco lobby… and ahead to the vaping challenge
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NewsTesco to serve self-scan shoppers with ads based on their location within a store
Tesco Media & Insight Platform launched ads on the self-scanning devices last year, claiming to be the first retailer globally to do so
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News‘Nano influencer’ food distribution company adds frozen ops, eyes international expansion
Gifta operates from two specialist warehouses across the UK, with its fulfilment teams managing ambient, chilled, and now frozen products
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NewsUnilever to extend use of on-pack accessible QR codes for partially sighted shoppers
The fmcg giant began deploying AQRs on pack with its Persil and Colman’s brands in the UK in late 2023
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NewsTesco boosts retail media offering with video ads and more store wraps
Through its Tesco Media & Insight Platform, the supermarket also unveiled new capacity to run ‘store wrap’ advertising
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NewsTesco brings forward access to Christmas delivery slots
Tesco has also increased the capacity of its rapid delivery service Whoosh, with thousands of extra delivery slots available on Christmas Eve
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NewsOcado launches dedicated female-founded brand aisle
The ‘Buy Women Built’ aisle features more than 1,000 products from 130 female-founded brands including Bold Bean Co, Pip & Nut, Little Moons and Biotiful
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Comment & OpinionFuture Me: smokers relent in glossy Nicorette-sponsored affair
As anyone who’s tried it will tell you, quitting cigarettes ain’t easy
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Comment & Opinion‘If you don’t smoke, don’t vape’ message is getting lost. Does it matter?
Medical experts and health authorities heralded vaping as something of a miracle, in their effort to stop the UK population from smoking tobacco
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Analysis & FeaturesThe troubling foodie challenges fuelled by social media
Going viral on social media is often a boon for brands – but what if the product is being used in a dangerous ‘challenge’? How can brands combat fmcg fallacies online and keep consumers safe?
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NewsAmazon facing legal action for freezing seller funds
Legal firm Rosenblatt said the amounts still “wrongly and unlawfully frozen” ran into “potentially tens of millions”
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NewsNatural vitamin startup secures funding to ‘shake up the fortified foods industry’
Biovit will use part of the cash injection to carry out a trial of individuals’ micronutrient absorption levels and utilisation rates
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NewsNumber of vapers in England who didn’t previously smoke rockets to one million
Around one million adults in England who had never regularly smoked before now vape, most of them on a daily basis, finds UCL study