All articles by Ian Quinn – Page 212
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Analysis & Features
Laundry: Comfort flies as sector goes soft on scents
Brits bought 12 million fewer kilos of detergent from the supermarkets in 2014, a fall of 3.6%…
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Analysis & Features
OTC: flu remedies catch a cold in mild winter
It’s not just the kids who will be praying for a white Christmas this year…
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Analysis & Features
Household: posh brands clean up in household category
The household aisles in the supermarkets are under fire, with discounters and pound shops rounding on the sector…
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News
Ninth Tesco employee suspended
A ninth person has been suspended as the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) investigation continues into the £263m black hole in Tesco’s accounts…
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News
Tesco adds teams of little helpers to pack bags in the run-up to Christmas
Tesco is today created teams of dedicated bag packers at 400 of its stores to help ramp up service in the run up to Christmas.
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Comment & Opinion
Let’s get ready to rumble
With nearly three weeks of endurance eating and drinking yet to come before we all go cold turkey…
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News
Portas and MPs attack local authority action on high streets
The efforts of both national and local government to tackle the problems of town centres has come under strong attack from MPs and the former high street tsar today. The Communities and Local Government Select Committee claimed the National Planning Policy Framework was being mishandled by councils, with local planning ...
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News
Support grows for tax on sugary drinks
Health advisers for Mayor of London Boris Johnson have swung their weight behind calls for a tax on sugary drinks, after new figures claimed the introduction could save London boroughs alone nearly £40m in costs to the NHS.
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News
Campaign calls for 2% duty cut on wine and spirits
Chancellor George Osborne is being urged to cut duty on wine and spirits by 2%, with a campaign claiming it would remove an unfair tax burden of British drinkers and give a £1.5bn boost to the public finances in 2015.
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News
Community Shop opens social supermarket in south London
A group of leading supermarkets this week began selling their food at 70% discounts to feed the poor, in an initiative which could become a new model for tackling hunger across the UK
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News
Tesco trials food-to-go Pickbox lunches at Canary Wharf store
Tesco has launched a new food-to-go concept to make lunchtime meal deals simpler and quicker…
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News
Suppliers 'failing to take lead on obesity', survey finds
Food and drink companies are being sidelined in the debate over obesity, with a new study showing…
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News
Nick Canney becomes UK & Ireland MD at Innocent
Smoothie maker Innocent has ramped up its executive team as it seeks to reverse falling UK sales…
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Comment & Opinion
Plugging the black hole(s)
The £263m accounting scandal might, in the long run, not prove to be the most important black hole CEO Dave Lewis has to fix if he…
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News
Tesco profits warning: what the analysts say
After Tesco revealed its annual profits would be no higher than £1.4bn, we round-up who is saying what
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News
Tesco in new profits warning as Dave Lewis promises not to cut corners in January
Tesco issued a profit warning today as CEO Dave Lewis “reset” the business to focus on service, availability and more competitive prices…
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News
Archbishop of Canterbury and MPs call on on supermarkets to do more to tackle food poverty
Supermarkets have been urged to step up their battle against food waste, after a report by MPs and church leaders claimed supply chain inefficiencies in terms of redistributing surplus food was letting the poor go hungry.
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News
Matt Simister exonerated as Lewis rebuilds senior Tesco team
Group food sourcing director Matt Simister is set for a dramatic return to Tesco on Monday…
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News
Tesco's new lab to showcase latest in-store tech and new apps
Tesco has opened the doors to a new laboratory to demonstrate the power of the latest in-store technology…
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News
Pizza and ready meals might get government's 5-a-day logo
The Department of Health is considering allowing thousands of products…