All articles by Rob Brown – Page 25
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Analysis & Features
Review of the year 2012: part 4
Farmers are often accused of not really ‘getting’ consumers…
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Analysis & Features
Grocery timeline: 2012
We reveal how escalating duties have forced AB InBev to cut the alcohol content of its key lagers…
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Analysis & Features
Review of the year 2012: part 2
As we revealed in our annual Britain’s Biggest Brands supplement in March…
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Analysis & Features
Review of the year 2012 - Part 1
There was only ever one real contender for our Man of the Year 2012…
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Category Report
Canned goods: Cans in crisis as shoppers shun staples
Canned food has been put through the wringer in 2012…
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My Alternative CV
My alternative CV: Richard Cattell, Red Tractor Assurance
My first job was shovelling coal dust at Scunthorpe Steel Works as a summer job…
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News
Sustainable palm oil logo draws a blank with consumers
Just 3% of British consumers recognise an on-pack logo to promote the sustainable production of palm oil…
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Analysis & Features
Palm oil: the burning question
Still the fires burn. In Sumatra slash and burn forest clearance is at a six-year high…
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News
Lidl scotch a 'collector's item', says whisky expert
A limited edition scotch from Lidl is set to become a collector’s item after it went on sale today for £39.99, half its estimated value.
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News
Marks & Spencer tops trusted brands poll
Marks & Spencer has been named Britain’s most trusted brand in a survey that revealed Tesco as the second least trusted.
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News
telefonica dynamic insights
A new system allowing supermarkets to track the movement of potential customers by tracing mobiles has been launched,…
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My Alternative CV
Alternative CV: Steve Carter of Frobishers Juices
What was your first-ever job? I read electricity meters for a summer job in the 1980s….
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My Alternative CV
My Alternative CV: Miranda Ballard, co-founder, Muddy Boots
Miranda Ballard, co-founder of Muddy Boots, on buying the Mr Blobby single. Yes, the Mr Blobby single….
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Comment & Opinion
Time for an energy drinks enquiry
Monster is having a nightmare. But it’s nothing compared with what the parents of Anais Fournier have been through since the Maryland 14-year-old died last Christmas after drinking two 680ml cans of what the brand refers to as its ‘killer energy brew’ in a day.
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Analysis & Features
Switch on to the returns of going green
Two things come to mind. Do you care about the future of the planet? If you do, you need to do something…
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News
Fontmell Magna Village Shop
A business at the heart of the picture postcard Dorset village of Fontmell Magna has come on to the market…
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Analysis & Features
It's time for independents to join the green party
Cutting a c-store’s energy-use can be tough - ‘green’ technology isn’t cheap and returns can be a long time coming…
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Comment & Opinion
Blame it on the bean counters
There are only two certainties in life, as anyone will tell you: death and taxes. Unless you’re Starbucks, that is. It hasn’t paid a bean in corporation tax for the past three years, according to an investigation into the coffee giant’s UK tax affairs by Reuters…
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Profiles
Cowboys? Watch out
Environment Agency chairman Lord Chris Smith is determined to nail companies flouting their green obligations.