All People articles – Page 119
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ProfilesMy food & drink job: Naomi Gardner, general manager, Roasting Plant Coffee
Naomi manages her team and operations at two busy central London coffee shops
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ProfilesMy food & drink job: Amy Harris, junior development technologist, Higgidy
Amy landed a job at her dream company developing new flavours and trends in the world of pies
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NewsOne Beyond fixing store heating after customer complaints during cold snap
One Beyond – which is in the process of rebranding from One Below – saw temperatures in some stores dip to 1°C in the recent cold snap, according to customers who have taken to social media to complain
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NewsM&S stores to stay open until 11pm for last-minute Christmas shopping
The stores will close on Christmas Day and Boxing Day and reopen on 27 December, in most cases from 8am to 8pm, M&S has told customers
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Comment & OpinionWhy Jack Monroe is The Grocer’s Hero of the Year
Monroe argued back in January that the system by which we measure the impact of inflation is fundamentally flawed
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ProfilesMy food & drink job: Corentin Coubes, project manager, The Absolut Company
Corentin’s role at The Absolut Company helps him live abroad and discover new cultures
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Analysis & FeaturesHow to improve self-checkouts… according to store staff
Supervisors offer incredibly useful feedback on how to make them work better for customers, staff and the bottom line
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NewsEqui’s Ice Cream opens £1.7m factory in Rutherglen
The opening of the 10,000 sq ft site cooincides with the business’s centenary year
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Grocer 33Grocer 33 store of the week: Tesco Montrose
‘Christmas is for me the best time of year to be a store manager in retail. It’s all action’
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Comment & OpinionRichard Walker’s transition from Iceland MD to Tory mouthpiece raises questions
After his introduction on ITV’s Peston show as “the boss of Iceland Foods who’s also a Tory candidate”, it soon became clear Walker’s appearance related more to the latter than former
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NewsJW Filshill appoints Arwel Carter as regional development manager for north of England
Carter joins the business having spent nine years at field and experiential marketing agency McCurrach
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NewsPoundland closes all Fultons Foods stores as frozen range rolls out across its own estate
A trading update also revealed a shake-up ahead for Poundland’s clothing and GM buying team
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ProfilesMy food & drink job: Mark Amo, graphic design and marketing executive, Wanis International Foods
Part of Mark’s job is celebrity outreach – getting him in contact with some of his favourite grime artists
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InterviewsCEO Shirine Khoury-Haq on getting to grips with the Co-op
Khoury-Haq brings a financial approach to the Co-op, and has already cut costs. But she’s also looking to grow the topline, and to give greater focus to the society’s campaigning
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Grocer 33Morrisons Canning Town: Grocer 33 store of the week
‘This year we have added quite a lot of new lines for Christmas, mainly Christmas dinner’
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NewsDavid Wagstaff made St Pierre MD as David Milner moves on following Grupo Bimbo sale
Wagstaff brings more than 30 years’ experience in the food and drink industry to the role
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NewsInfarm halves workforce and plans to ‘downsize’ UK operations
Some 500 staff are in the process of leaving the company, which warned it is proposing to “downsize operations” in the UK, France and the Netherlands
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NewsSelf-checkout supervisors overwhelmed and abused, report finds
As a result, close to two-thirds felt overwhelmed by the number of machines assigned, and said they could only cope when stores weren’t busy
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ProfilesMy food & drink job: Holly Brown, sous chef, Dovebrook Kitchen
Sous chef Holly swapped making sandwiches for high-end frozen plant-based meals
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NewsPricecheck launches business change department to aid drive towards £200m turnover target
Staff in the newly created department will be tasked with guiding improvements to the organisation’s structure, processes, systems and technologies