In this week’s The Grocer our Director of Branding, Giles Lury, comments on the latest news story of Waitrose starting to sell its products at Shell forecourts.

Giles says that the move was logical: “Waitrose is playing catch-up with M&S. I think it will work – who really wants sandwiches made by a petrol company?”

It seems that journalism’s loss is our gain…

We’re very proud to announce that one of our newest Engineers, Ben Riley-Smith, has been proclaimed Sports Writer of the Year. The Guardian Student Media Awards 2009 were held last night at the Proud Galleries in Camden.

Ben’s portfolio of sporting articles, published in Cambridge’s Varsity newspaper helped to secure him the prestigious title. He was presented with the prize by Guardian Sports Editor Sean Ingle (on the left) and BBC Radio DJ Colin Murray (right).

For Ben’s latest work please check our blog!

1. “Turnover is vanity, profit is sanity, cash flow is king” (Numerous)

2. “No profit grows where no pleasure is taken; In brief, sir, study what you most affect.” (William Shakespeare)

3. “If your goal is anything but profitability – if it’s to be big, or to grow fast, or to become a technology leader – you’ll hit problems.” (Michael Porter)

4. “To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work, is as impossible as it is to live without being born.” (A. P. Gouthev)

5. “Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.” (Warren Buffet)

Borrowed with Pride from all over the place.

1. “Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.” (Hermann Hesse)

2. “The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

3. “Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.” (Rollo May)

4. “Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.” (George Santayana)

5. “Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.” (Niels Bohr)

Borrowed with Pride from all over the place.

Yet again The Value Engineers had the honour to be asked by The Grocer to comment on the most recent headlines of Loyd Grossman entering the chilled food category with a new range of pizzas this week.

With Pizza Express and own label already having a very strong position in that category Giles Lury, Director of Branding, comments: “Loyd Grossman could struggle to make an impact as it is trying to muscle in on a tough competitive market. However pizza tends to be about the topping so the range could benefit from Grossman’s sauces heritage.” (‘Loyd Grossman eyes a piece of the action with new pizza offer’ by Lisa Riley)