Tesco has been steadying the ship after its run of PR disasters but the old habits are seemingly hard to eradicate completely.
Apparently the seven new farms unveiled this week as the brands for a new range of meat and veg are just figments of its marketing department’s imaginations.
Yep, Willow Farms et al are made up and a lot of the stuff is imported despite the solid British sounding names.
Only one of the new brands, Boswell chicken, is 100% and is easy to spot, it’s the one with the Union Jack on the side.
Breaking Satire:Just been offered an exec job @Tesco after telling them I've got many years experience working on Bullshit Farm.#FalseAdvert
— Robbie Bett (@TeeSpirit) 24 March 2016
Next plc (LON:NXT) sounded like everyone’s Nan this morning after it complained no one was wrapping up warm.
The clothing retailer blamed a mild winter for drop in clothing sales, as it cautioned this year could be the toughest since the financial crisis.
It said the outlook for consumer spending did not look as benign as it was at this time last year.
Wage growth and economic output had slowed since September last year and the retailer said there may be a move away from clothing towards areas that suffered most in the credit crunch.
Better news for Asiamet Resources Ltd (LON:ARS) as shares rose more than 10% after it reported progress with a copper-gold project in Indonesia.
One tweeter had got in there already though, after chief executive Tony Manini spoke of the development pipeline last week.
Seems that people are liking what Tony the MANini from @AsiaMet_Res_ARS #ARS is saying > https://t.co/8SY4kvI51A pic.twitter.com/TnVDlyR5UA
— SharePickers (@SharePickers) 23 March 2016
Asiamet also said it was continuing to progress the conversion of its exploration licences to production licences for both the Beutong and Jelai projects with the Indonesian government.
Another miner generating plenty of in terst as always was Ulster-focused gold group Dalradian Resources Inc (TSX:DNA LON:DALR).
Latest samples at Rylagh, 12.5 km to the south west of the main deposit at Curraghinalt, included 168.0 g/t and 42.4 g/t of gold, which is a lot for the non-geologists among you.
The group remains on track to submit a planning application for the Curraghinalt mine later this year, its chief executive Patrick Anderson said.
Losses in 2015 were US$7.46mln (US$6.84mln), but this is a case of never mind those just look at the grades.