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Big food: Drop that spoon!

Britain is one of the world's largest consumers of puffed, flaked and sugared breakfast cereals. How did that happen when many were said to contain less nutrition than the boxes they come in? Felicity Lawrence investigates

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Primark shrugs off snow disruption

20 Jan 2011: But parent company Associated British Foods set for £20m hit from effects of weather on UK sugar beet crop
Insurance firm RSA puts snow claims figure at £142m

20 Jan 2011: Insurer joins easyJet, Enterprise Inns and Associated British Foods in revealing that they have suffered multimillion pound losses because of the snow
Is the royal warrant losing its appeal?

19 Jan 2011: For many years the royal warrant has been highly prized. Now, some brands are quietly doing the unthinkable – dropping it. But why?
Mitchells & Butlers faces new shareholder revolt

19 Jan 2011: Mitchells & Butlers non-executive directors are not independent and should be removed, says investor group Pirc
My beef isn't with beef: why I stopped being a vegetarian

19 Jan 2011:
Jenna Woginrich: To be vegetarian is to be a pacifist, avoiding the fight against animal cruelty. Eat meat from sustainable farms, and we will win
Coca-Cola banned from claiming its Vitaminwater brand is 'nutritious'

19 Jan 2011: Advertising watchdog upholds complaints that the product actually contains 23g of sugar. By Mark Sweney
Anyone for a bucket of coffee? Starbucks thinks so

17 Jan 2011:
Richard Adams: Starbucks announces plans to sell bladder-bursting 'Trenta' cup size - holding almost a litre of coffee - in its US outlets
Coffee Republic designs a revival with Terence Conran

16 Jan 2011: High-street chain opens flagship London cafe on the road back from administration
Burton's biscuit factory to close with loss of 340 jobs

12 Jan 2011: Workers 'devastated' at news Jammie Dodgers and Wagon Wheels factory in Wirral is to be shut, while another 70 jobs will go at Burton's factory near Newport
America's healthy debate on food

12 Jan 2011:
Amanda Marcotte: Culture warriors try to cast anti-obesity advice as bossy elitism, but the bottom line is we all know we have a big problem
Opposition mounts against Lincolnshire 'mega-dairy'

11 Jan 2011: Campaigners hand in 72,000-name petition to council ahead of deadline for consultation on plans for a 3,770-cow dairy
German minister threatens legal action in dioxin scandal

9 Jan 2011: Investigators in Germany have found excessive levels of cancer-causing dioxin in eggs and some chicken meat
Starbucks joins Nike and Apple in the big league of no-name logos

9 Jan 2011: The ubiquitous coffee chain has changed its branding – it's so big now it no longer needs to remind the world of its own name
Pub closure crisis will turn us all into lager-swilling losers

9 Jan 2011: The rising price of a pint threatens to do irreversible damage to the pub trade
Domino's Pizza grows fat on UK's taste for austerity

9 Jan 2011: Chief executive Chris Moore believes timing is everything in a market boosted by Britons' newfound desire to eat at home