All articles by Simon Creasey – Page 6
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Analysis and FeaturesMove over Barclays...
With consumer faith in the banks at all all-time low, the supermarkets are ramping up their finance arms. But…
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Profiles and QandAsExtending the olive branch
Having wowed celebrity chefs with its foodservice offer, The Fresh Olive Company is now eyeing strong growth for retail brand Belazu.
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NewsIs long life the future?
After numerous false starts, will consumers take to long-life products this time around?
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Profiles and QandAsWhere are they now? Philip Almond
Almond’s career kicked off in the late 1980s, with the marketer undertaking a number of different roles in arts administration, advertising and marketing.
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Analysis and FeaturesIs Asda's credit card on the money?
Despite consumer distrust in the banks, and the offer of cash back, analysts are sceptical of Asda’s move into credit cards.
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Analysis and FeaturesWelcome to the click & collect revolution
Supermarkets have been ramping up click & collect and some are now looking at grocery as well as non-food… heralding the dawn of the grocery drive thru.
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NewsMiers backs plan to feed pigs food waste
Former Masterchef winner Thomasina Miers has teamed up with food waste expert Tristram Stuart…
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The Big InterviewAdmiring Miers
It began with her triumphant appearance on Masterchef. Now with a new campaign and a fast-growing business empire, is Thomasina Miers the new Jamie?
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Analysis and FeaturesCan the tide be turned in Margate?
As the winner one of the first Portas Pilot grants, the people of Margate are determined to transform the faded fortunes of their seaside resort. But controversy has already come to town.
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Analysis and FeaturesGina the Cleaner clinches first unsung hero crown
They’re the hidden heroes of grocery, the unsung employees who work tirelessly behind the scenes to ensure everything runs smoothly front of house.
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Analysis and FeaturesKNAPP sharpens supply chain for Boots' online op
Rapid growth of the boots.com operation was placing its fulfilment operation under pressure - until KNAPP was called in to design and a tailor-made solution.
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Analysis and FeaturesAsda price helps retailer win the nation's heart
After snaring the title of Britain’s favourite supermarket for six years on the trot, Tesco was usurped by Asda last year for the first time since 2004.
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Profiles and QandAsWhere are they now? Julia Reynolds
After starting at the bottom of the corporate ladder as an office junior at Topshop in the mid-1990s, Reynolds rapidly rose through the ranks.
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The Big InterviewRock'n'Roule: Alex James on cheese
Alex James talks exclusively to The Grocer about his Booker card, PowerPoint presentations, EU subsidies, obscure cheeses… and Blur.
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NewsSummer juices for Copella
PepsiCo is expanding its Copella juice brand into the lemonade market with two new lemon and apple blends.
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The Big InterviewThe £14bn breakfast club
So PepsiCo is turning its back on the health agenda, is it? Hardly, says David Murray, general manager of Quaker and Tropicana. Indeed, health is key to its plans.
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NewsGovernment unveils Portas-Plus high street plan
The government has rubberstamped “virtually all” of the 28 recommendations put forward by retail guru Mary Portas to revitalise the UK’s ailing high streets.
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Analysis and FeaturesMeet the Young British Foodies
A growing movement of young UK food producers are keeping alive the culinary skills of yesteryear. Forget the YBAs… now it’s time for the YBFs.
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Analysis and FeaturesCheap at twice the price
The packaging is awful. They look and taste terrible. They’re so unloved by the multiples that they hide them away on the bottom shelf where they sell for mere pennies.
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Analysis and FeaturesSmarter ideas about water usage need to start flowing
How are farmers coping with the devastating drought that has hit many parts of Britain?