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>>retailers cannot work alone in improving diets. Susan Bromley, marketing development manager, Co-operative GroupOnly individuals can take the decision to choose to live a healthy lifestyle. However, that doesn’t mean others don’t...
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>>food needs good science – Colin Gutteridge, md, RSSL, provider of science outsourcing to fmcg sectorAmid the media feeding frenzy that accompanies takeover talk such as Morrisons and Safeway, one can almost be persuaded that the...
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>>How can the industry combat deflationary pressure? TONY SMITH, SALES DIRECTOR, UNILEVER BESTFOODS UKAs I’m writing this essay all eyes are on Safeway. After months of wrangling, a decision has at last been made and, as many...
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>>let’s get close to farmers – Paul Willgoss, head of agriculture and technical manager of protein foods, M&SAt Marks & Spencer our customers’ interest in where their food comes from and how it is produced has never been greater. Who...
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A year ago this month, Tesco launched a ground-breaking supply chain initiative. The move towards 'primary distribution' was a major - but logical - next step in the development of the company's supply chain. The aims were to make life simpler for...
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>>Is Chip and PIN really shaping up? jeremy wyman, business systems manager, safewaySome people have questioned whether chip and PIN might be an attempt at closer European integration through the back door. After all the French have...
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>>Colin Breed, Liberal Democrat MP South East Cornwall, ON WHY RETAILER POWER MUST BE CURBEDThe recent news of Asda’s 30,000sq ft expansion of a Sheffield supermarket caused me some anger and frustration. Since Asda’s absorption into...
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>>Jeremy Baker, senior lecturer in marketing, London Metropolitan University – the Office of Supermarket regulator is nighThe supermarket industry is going to be very sorry that it ever got caught-up in the Safeway takeover. The...
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Does our government understand the true cost of new legislation to small businesses? In the last four years I have seen a whole raft of legislation which, although arising from good intentions, has undermined the profitability of our wholesale trade...
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>>why a food advertising ban would not reduce obesity – Jeremy Preston, director, the Food Advertising unitThe past weeks have seen the issue of food advertising to children again pushed to the fore by the media and politicians. As...
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“If people let government decide what foods they eat and what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their boddies will soon be in as a sorry state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny”Thomas Jefferson ...
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Food, nutrition and health are once again heading the consumer, political and industry agendas. Today's eating patterns are moving in a direction diametrically opposed to our increasingly sedentary lifestyles. Our environment is so geared...
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>>What goes to make a winner – Andy Andrews, Guest Professor of General Management, IESE Business School, barcelonaThe food and drinks industry is undergoing exciting dramatic changes. From the trend to convenience to...
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>>Mitzie Wilson, editor of new food magazine Delicious, on what the modern food lover wantsA new type of food consumer has emerged. Called the ‘modern food lover’ by Delicious, this consumer has a passion for great eating and...
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>>UK food policy reform must now be a priority… Tim Lang, professor of Food Policy at City UniversityA new political geography of food is emerging. The failure of the World Trade Organisation talks at Cancun was seismic and could...
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>>why the GM debate has a long way to go…clive beddall, editor-at-large, william reed publishingRead recent headlines, and you could easily believe that the GM foods debate is done and dusted and any suggestion that genetically...
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>>stop presenting frozen food as a poor relation. ALF CARR, DIRECTOR-GENERAL, BRITISH frozen FOOD FEDERATIONOver recent years, the retail frozen food market has continued to grow an average of 4% a year and stands at £4bn when...
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>>An industry mantra that smacks of Ratner…Tim Lang, Professor of Food Policy, City UniversityBit by bit, the enormity of the obesity problem is being realised in Britain. Last week retailers, including Tesco and Asda, were up...
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>>EU food regulation needs legal teeth – Keith Ellis, global head of food and drink sector, 3iAt our recent food and drinks conference, the hot topic of debate was whether current EU food legislation had enough teeth to...
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>>the black hole in government food policy – Clive Beddall, editor-at-large, william reed publishingEven the industry’s most cynical players must surely share the hope that 2004 will bring significant new developments in the...