All People articles – Page 243
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My Alternative CV
Matt Hunt, Protein Ball Co, on Disneyland & Richard Branson
“I thought I would ace it but missed the fact that you had to speak perfect French!”
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News
Tributes paid as GroceryAid lynchpin Barrie Russell dies
Russell was known for wry humour and “repertoire of catchphrases”
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News
Taskforce set up for Tesco Cardiff call centre closure
Welsh government took action after MPs slammed Tesco’s “completely unacceptable” handling of the announcement
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Benny Higgins to step down as head of Tesco Bank
Higgins steered the bank through last year’s £2.5m cyber attack…
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HelloFresh appoints Claire Davenport as UK CEO
Davenport replaces Ian Marsh, who left the role after one and a half years for personal reasons
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Sally Abbott made managing director of Weetabix UK & Ireland
Her previous position has been filled by Francesca Davies, now marketing director for UK & Ireland
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Analysis & Features
Why are so few Brits prepared to pick fruit?
The UK fruit & veg sector is at risk because Brexit has made it harder to hire seasonal workers from Europe - and Brits don’t want to do the job. We explain why it’s so hard to hire British workers for seasonal jobs, and what to do about it.
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Comment & Opinion
As Amazon shows the might of corporations, what can SMEs do?
After a number of fruitless attempts by Amazon to eat into the fmcg market, it now has a way in, says Jonathan Fitchew of Pareto Law. Here’s what SMEs can learn from it
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News
Hannah Edwards appointed senior marketing manager at Freshpet
She joins from consumer electronics company Hoover Candy, where she spent over two years in a senior marketing role
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My Alternative CV
Jenny Costa, Rubies in the Rubble, on the FT and rabbits
”Working on the Drysdales burger van at the Ayr County Show was great fun”
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News
MBO team at Thomas J Fudge's moves on following review
The management team behind a buyout at Thomas J Fudge’s Remarkable Bakery have sold their stakes and left the brand amid a shake-up by private equity backer Livingbridge, The Grocer can reveal.
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News
Liz Sutton appointed chair of Provision Trade Federation
Delamere Dairy founder replaces Rob Nugent as chair of PTF
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News
Tesco to axe 1,200 jobs at its head office
A quarter of staff at its Welwyn Garden City HQ are facing redundancy, a week after Tesco announced 1,100 jobs were to go at its Cardiff call centre
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News
Trevor Bellis joins Grassroots as sales & marketing manager
Bellis joins Grassroots from his previous role as commercial manager at Janan Meat
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Comment & Opinion
What Unilever’s AI hiring experiment tells us about the future of grocery recruitment
The fmcg giant is trying out a new way to hire for some entry-level positions, which is driven almost entirely by algorithms
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News
Jason Wouhra of East End Foods awarded OBE
Wouhra has been at the helm of the £200m-turnover Birmingham-based family business since 1998…
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Richard Pike and Martyn Fletcher join Boparan board
Ex-British Sugar MD Pike also replaces Stephen Leadbeater as group CFO of 2 Sisters
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My Alternative CV
Paul Turner, Alf Turner, on Dragons' Den and Steve Jobs
”Like my brothers, I became a Saturday boy at the family butchers shop”
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News
Unite strike action threatens M&S deliveries at 100 sites
Twenty workers are due to strike for 12 days over claims of £8,000 pay discrepancy at delivery company Gist
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News
Cat Lomax promoted to head of buying at Majestic Wine
Lomax, previously senior buyer for the retailer, takes over the role from Matt Pym, who recently stepped down…