20 Apr 2012
| by Loulla-Mae Eleftheriou-Smith
Once again, it seems that marketing is to blame for the nation's ills. 'Aggressive marketing' was cited as one of the causes of last August's riots by a government-commissioned report, released earlier this month. It highlighted the role of consumerism in making young people feel pressured to own the latest ...
16 Apr 2012
| by Arif Durrani
together as a society. And that is what we are doing by working with Government to reinforce better behaviour, better diets and a more active lifestyle. "Doctors negative attitude to the Government ...
. The last government imposed a food testing regime based on fat, sugar and salt, yet failed to say how ...
21 Mar 2012
| by Daniel Farey-Jones
, while observing that "in general" the pressure on the government to increase new legislation regarding marketing was on the decrease.
He praised the current Government for being "much more interested ...
09 Mar 2012
| by John Reynolds
hot topic but Coe, whose Locog team have worked closely with the Metropolitan Police and government ...
25 Jan 2012
| by Helen Edwards, PPA, Business columnist of the year
the UK's reported overall happiness. What is to be gained? Even if a government could contrive to achieve ...
07 Dec 2011
| by Rachel Barnes
government, attacking decisions to scrap plans for a third runway at Heathrow and maintain air passenger duty ...
01 Dec 2011
| by John Reynolds
advertising viewed by children, in response to the government's crackdown on 'inappropriate' marketing...and retailers to promote transparency in calorie content and more healthy-living messages.
Senior government ...
In This Together', called for a 'responsibility deal' between government and businesses.
July 2010 : Health ...
the trends in obesity'.
March 2011 : Government formally unveiled 'Responsibility Deal', backed by more ...
07 Sep 2011
| by Staff
, and proposed solutions include a government levy and marketing restrictions on unhealthy food.....
The government's role has to be to keep educating to change behaviour. The big retailers have played a part ...
15 Mar 2011
| by Noelle McElhatton
don't yet know what effect the government's spending cuts will have on consumer confidence, nor what ...
15 Mar 2011
| by Chris Arnold
I'm no fan of legislation, so I welcome the government's voluntary 'responsibility deal' initiative unveiled today. But the problem with self-regulation is that you have to trust all the players to support and abide by any agreement and do what is right.
So it s no surprise that a few don t want ...