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The Joseph Report: November 2014
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Irreverent jottings from a widely-travelled wino. Subscribe To the Joseph Report. Sunday, November 09, 2014. Raise a glass to the outsiders who've shaken up the wine world. Have in common with. Herbert Allen, Dennis L Burns and Elon Musk? He's used his experience in one industry to start a revolution in another. For those who haven't come across him made a fortune by co-founding PayPal before risking a lot of it on Tesla. The first serious electric. Versions on the road. It took an outsider. The revoluti...
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The Joseph Report: May 2014
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Irreverent jottings from a widely-travelled wino. Subscribe To the Joseph Report. Tuesday, May 20, 2014. Who judges the judges? More thoughts on wine competitions. We are living in - as the Chinese might say - electorally interesting times. India has just collectively decided to hand its governance to Narendra Modi. In any case, inviting consumers raised the Palate Press Problem: did we want wine enthusiasts? Or their dates. Some consumers know more than some experts; others don't. If we turn our overly ...
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The Joseph Report: Crimea and Punishment
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Irreverent jottings from a widely-travelled wino. Subscribe To the Joseph Report. Monday, October 20, 2014. Ok, first things first. Crimea is legally part of Ukraine and Ukraine is not part of Russia. And, speaking as someone who has both just read Sebastian Haffner's Defying Hitler. But as I discovered after talking to a fair few of them, there are plenty of Crimean winemakers who can see a lot of advantages to being part of Russia today rather than a European-focused Ukraine. Erin Antalis of the. Image...
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The Joseph Report: Tesco: the giant canary in the mine
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Irreverent jottings from a widely-travelled wino. Subscribe To the Joseph Report. Friday, October 24, 2014. Tesco: the giant canary in the mine. Like 'c ollateral damage. In the US, where accounts have to reveal the origin of how businesses make their money,. The credit rating agency Fitch suggests that almost all of retailers' profits - 8% of the cost of goods - now come directly from suppliers. The UK situation may be even more dramatic. If chartered accountant. To provide some context, the total value...
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The Joseph Report: August 2014
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Irreverent jottings from a widely-travelled wino. Subscribe To the Joseph Report. Friday, August 29, 2014. Drinking the Kool Aid. Every so often, somebody gives me a phrase I really can't let go of. UK-born PR person, Louise Hurren, who earns most of her living by helping small Languedoc producers gain some kind of visibility outside their region, did precisely that when she used the expression ". I guess I must have drunk the Kool Aid, because I felt utterly enthused about – well, everything". On one si...
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The Joseph Report: Learning from Majestic - A request for cash
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Irreverent jottings from a widely-travelled wino. Subscribe To the Joseph Report. Sunday, November 09, 2014. Learning from Majestic - A request for cash. I have discovered over the years that some of what I write is taken more seriously than I intend. So please note that I am. Not actually asking for financial contributions. But I wasn't lying when I said that my battery was dyi. Posted by Robert Joseph. Its the retrospective aspect which reeks of bullying. Thanks Frank, Andrew. Subscribe in a reader.
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The Joseph Report: Why the Tesco story is part of a bigger UK retailing picture
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Irreverent jottings from a widely-travelled wino. Subscribe To the Joseph Report. Wednesday, October 29, 2014. Why the Tesco story is part of a bigger UK retailing picture. Getting sales projections wrong is not very difficult; quite the reverse. But at Tesco, it looks as though it was happening on an industrial scale, and over several years. Profits are believed to have been. Bigger companies such as Coca Cola, Unilever and Procter and Gamble). The Tesco Wine Fairs are a brilliant example of how this ca...
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The Joseph Report: In praise of hobbyhorses
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Irreverent jottings from a widely-travelled wino. Subscribe To the Joseph Report. Thursday, October 23, 2014. In praise of hobbyhorses. Get off your hobbyhorse.";. Stop banging on."; "Can't you just change the subject.". Unlike Wilberforce and Pankhurst,. To be fair,. Thomas Parker's functioning 1884 electric car. Poster for Chris Paine's 2006 movie about the. Sabotaging of Wally Rippel and team's. GM EV1 functioning electric car. As director Chris Paine illustrated in his 2006 movie. Today, thanks large...
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The Joseph Report: September 2014
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Irreverent jottings from a widely-travelled wino. Subscribe To the Joseph Report. Friday, September 26, 2014. Why Tesco's woes are raising a cheer in Germany. Adrian Bailey, Chair of the UK parliamentary Business Committee has been quoted - in. As saying that ". We may well as a committee want to look at this. Not just at Tesco but at what is going on in the retail industry and in the relationship with the suppliers to see if the issues we came across two years ago are still there.". There are very few w...
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The Joseph Report: Pontet Canet or Francois Hollande? Which do you respect?
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Irreverent jottings from a widely-travelled wino. Subscribe To the Joseph Report. Friday, October 24, 2014. Pontet Canet or Francois Hollande? Which do you respect? Picture from the Independent. Francois Hollande is currently le Président de la République Française. He enjoys an approval rating of 13%. His illustrious title doesn't seem to be doing him much good. People are judging him by what they see. The belated creation of the Vin de France. Down the road from Pontet Canet, Chateaux La Lagune and Pal...
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