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Financial Times: 12/04/2018

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EU eyes crackdown on unfair practices by powerful food buyers

Brussels is proposing a crackdown on powerful food buyers that force predatory terms on small suppliers, in a move to protect producers that has alarmed some large European retailers. 

Phil Hogan, EU agriculture commissioner, will on Thursday unveil a package of reforms to ban “unfair” contract terms and empower national authorities to police the conduct of big buyers such as supermarkets and food production companies. …

The Grocer: 19/2/2018

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Taking Tacon down the farm was never going to wash

It’s no wonder farming groups are disappointed by the government’s decision not to extend the powers of the Groceries Code Adjudicator, Christine Tacon, to cover primary producers.

Going back now at least three years, they have been strung along by successive governments into holding out hope that the Adjudicator might be ordered to descend like an avenging angel to stop them being bullied by the big, bad supermarkets.…

June 2016 – Morrisons ‘Treats suppliers the worst’

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The Times…

Toughen up: what Australia’s supermarket code could learn from the UK

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This is an interesting opinion piece by Professor Caron Beaton-Wells drawing attention to the weaknesses of the Australian code as compared to the UK model.

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July 2013 – AgriChatUK – “One hour special with Christine Tacon, Grocery Code Adjudicator”

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Tweet-based discussion on AgriChatUK…

Speech to Order of British Empire Lunch – May 2010

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Speech to Order of British Empire Lunch - May 2010Given by Christine in response to the given title “Unusual situations I have had to address running the Co-operative Farms”.
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Employment

Christine Tacon
The Co-operative Group, Managing Director Co-operative Farms 2000-Jan 2012
Executive board member Co-operative Food (simultaneous) 2010-Jan 2012
New Zealand Dairy Board (now Fonterra), Commercial Director Anchor Foods UK 1996-2000
Redland Plc, Marketing Director Redland Bricks 1994-1996
Vodafone, Marketing Consultant to National Lottery Bid 1993-1994
Wang UK, Marketing Director 1992-1993
Mars Confectionery, Marketing Manager, Production Planner 1985-1992
Coats Viyella, Quality Manager Dynacast UK, Trainee Dynacast Germany, France 1982-1985
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Plans to save the water vole

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Hull Daily Mail …

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