Mark Choueke
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Can you build a brand without advertising... or PR?
For a century the grocery market has been built on the back of advertising and PR. But powerful new brands have emerged that used neither. Mark Choueke and Adam Leyland report
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The captain’s first mate
What more perfect a job for a self-confessed fish finger addict than MD of Birds Eye? Anne Murphy talks to Mark Choueke
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Supermarket price deals: how low can they go?
Asda’s and Morrisons’ 50p everyday items are pleasing the punters, but can retailers afford to maintain such offers, asks Mark Choueke
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A new colossusis born
The Co-operative Group’s CEO Peter Marks moved to reassure Somerfield’s suppliers in the hours after the mutual’s £1.565bn deal to acquire the supermarket was completed. Asked in an interview with The Grocer what implications the “biggest structural...
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Supermarkets deny milking rising costs
Supermarkets have denied profiteering from a period of unprecedented food inflation despite passing on £200m more to consumers in price increases since 2005 than they inherited from suppliers. A new study, published exclusively in The...
- Category Report
The Grocer/OC&C top 150 Suppliers - 2008
As the cost of living rises and daily news reports continue to flood us with glum tales of inflation in the price of food, fuel and interest rates, good news is certainly at a premium. A new report, though, shows reason for optimism. The Grocer/OC&C Index, an annual look in ...
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a Licence to print money?
Supermarket shelves are groaning under the weight of Antony Worrall Thompson. That's not a slur on the television chef's size or shape, but a nod to the success of his commercial empire. His new range of ready meals will extend to well over 100...
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The Power List 2008
Economic upheaval, along with opportunism, has brought big changess in this year’s list. Ross Butler, Mark Choueke and Adam Leyland report.
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How food waste can power your stores
Think about the amount of food left uneaten every night by every household in the UK. Now add the slops from schools, hospitals, restaurants, catering companies and unsold, out-of-date food from retailers. UK households are directly responsible...
- Profiles
on the shoulders of giants
Irwin Lee has a big pair of boots to fill. He's following in the footsteps of Gianni Ciserani, the highly charismatic Procter & Gamble boss who did so much to transform the UK business and to whom Lee reports following Ciserani's promotion to...