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Consumers and the Credit Crunch - Latest Views on Food Buying Behaviour

In the words of Justin King of Sainsbury, speaking during a business performance update last week - “the consumer is in a bad place just now”. Which is not really surprising, given the amount of depressing economic news. Nevertheless, both Sainsbury and Morrisons, who also gave a business update last...

Posted to Land Strategies Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Mon, Apr 6 2009
Re: Bash a banker?

I think you could be right Robert. Agriculture has probably been less impacted by the recession than other small businesses. The only difference I feel this time round is that it's a recession caused by a lack of credit and I guess that might impact on all businesses - including ag. TV programme...

Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by Julian Gairdner on Fri, Mar 13 2009
Bash a banker?

I've just taken a call from a lady at Cheetah TV who are making a programme about how the current financial crisis is affecting small businesses. They plan to put a banker recently made redundant face to face with the consequences of their actions by bringing them onto a farm to see the impact for...

Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by Julian Gairdner on Thu, Mar 12 2009
Merry Christmas. Now give us the money back !!

Having just read Jane Kings leader in this fantastic christmas issue of Farmers Weekly, I have to say I disagree with her. The RPA have said they have made mistakes with SFP of previous years and now want to claw back the money they have overpaid. I agree with Jane that it is public money and it should...

Posted to View From The Other Side Of The Fence (Weblog) by viewfromtheothersideofthefence on Sun, Dec 21 2008
Masterchef's John Torode Talks about Chefs and Farmers

John Torode, restaurant owner, president of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, and co-presenter of BBC's Masterchef, strode on to the stage at last week's English Food and Farming Partnerships conference to deliver a speech entitled "Why chefs care about farmers." Sporting half...

Posted to Land Strategies Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Mon, Nov 3 2008
Unthinking Consumerism - R.I.P

It looks as if the days of "I want what I want when I want it" are over, even for the relatively affluent, and even when it comes to food which still only accounts for about 10% of UK consumer expenditure. Shoppers are planning more carefully, shopping more wisely, and weighing up the quality...

Posted to Land Strategies Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Mon, Oct 20 2008
Credit Crunch and the Catering Trade

The UK catering market, sometimes called food service, is big but woefully under-reported. Whilst goings on in the grocery trade seem to be analysed almost daily, figures about performance in catering are difficult to find. Yet,having some understanding of sales may be helpful for producers to gauge...

Posted to Land Strategies Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Wed, Jul 2 2008
Re: What do you make of this kind of advertising?

It is great that our summer campaign is creating such interest on the FWi forum, prompted by the photos of Nell McAndrew. That’s precisely why we enlisted the support of Nell – to generate the kind of publicity that will help carry our campaign messages. The picture ensured that our positive messages...

Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by love potatoes on Wed, Jun 25 2008
Organic Market Outlook

The media's fascination with the organics market continues but this time with the focus on how it is faring during the credit crunch. The question of how a sector which is still less than two percent of total food sales can command so many column inches will be tackled another day. The more pressing...

Posted to Land Strategies Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Tue, Jun 24 2008
Supermarket Sales Show Strong Growth, No Sign of Consumer Cutbacks

Taylor Nelson Sofres (TNS) has published grocery sales growth and market share figures for the 12 weeks to May 16th. They show no signs of a consumer cutback. Total sales are up 6.6%, with big share gains for Morrisons (sales up 8.7%) and ASDA (up 7.6%) at the expense of Sainsbury (up 4.6%) and Tesco...

Posted to Land Strategies Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Fri, May 30 2008

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