Excellent news this morning in a letter from Ann de Jaeger, Alpro's public relations head honcho. 'As part of a major investment programme in our facilities, we will arrange our current production lines to be dedicated to producing rice, soya and oat drinks or almond, hazelnut …
Blogging/social media
Why are we all avoiding gluten?
Yesterday both the Daily Mail and Telegraph ran long articles on the stratospheric growth in the gluten free food market. Here are two suggestions for what is powering that growth: 1. Gluten intolerance is not just about coeliac disease Earlier this year gluten expert Dr …
#SBS (Small Business Sunday…) and other social media-ery
Dragon's Den would not be on my 'must watch' list of programmes (t'be honest, not a lot is...) but I do admire Theo Phaphitis for having done some really imaginative brand extension with his #SBS – or Small Business Sunday on Twitter. For those who have not heard of it: If …
The blog moves house…
Way back in 2010 when I started this blog, as some of you may remember, its 'header' was a picture of of our garden here at Lawn Road, complete with Boris, our ginger cat, peering in at the bottom. For several months I had considerable fun changing the header each month to …
Brief musings on social media
Prompted partly by Alex's round-up of 2013 'freefrom' news (nearly all of which took place on Facebook, on Twitter or on someone's blog) and partly by an article in the NY Times, I was mulling gently about how social media had totally subverted the way we work - and the way we …