Long reads – Page 211
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Alison Brittain, CEO, Whitbread (60)
The former career banker has big shoes to fill at the hospitality group
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Danny Hazlehurst, property director, Lidl (61)
Lidl overtook Aldi in sales last November but to keep going it needs to open more stores
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Peter Blakemore, MD, AF Blakemore (63)
Blakemore is on the up, with a strategy to more than double the size of its Wholesale Distribution arm
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Charles Rolls & Tim Warrillow, founders, Fever-Tree (64)
Fever-Tree founders Rolls and Warrillow have completely changed the face of the tonic fixture since launching Fever-Tree
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Andrew Selley. CEO, Bidvest (65)
Selley joined Bidvest in 2000 and took over as CEO in 2014 following its merger with 3663
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Moshin Issa, MD, Euro Garages (67)
Graham Peackock (qv) just sold his MRH outfit for a multibillion sum
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Mark Taylor, property director, Aldi (68)
Taylor has a tough brief – secure at least 60 perfect sites a year and more if possible
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Jamie Oliver, Chef (69)
Oliver’s media savvy means he knows how to draw attention to issues he cares about
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Kevin Brennan, CEO, Quorn (71)
Brennan took one step closer to his goal of making Quorn a $1bn brand in 2015
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Graham Peacock, CEO, MRH (76)
After founding MRH in 1997 Peacock will now join the ranks of the UK’s super rich
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Mike Greene, CEO, My Local (80)
Greene, or the M-bomb as he is called by his senior team, bucked the prevailing trend in convenience
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Mark Allen, CEO, Dairy Crest (86)
Allen finally offloaded Dairy Crest’s loss making liquid milk business to Müller in December
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Ed Perry & Dale Penfold, founders, Cook (87)
It was a merry Christmas for Perry and Penfold in 2015 with record sales recorded at the frozen ready meals retailer
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Eric Herd, UK CEO, Farmfoods (88)
The reclusive Herd released results in May showing a 38% leap in pre-tax profit (to £20.8m)
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Allan Leighton, chairman, The Co-operative Group (89)
Leighton’s return to the front line of retail brought enormous gravitas to the Co-op
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Nick Candler, COO, Pret a Manger (90)
With health and provenance top of the consumer agenda, Pret is now perfectly placed to tempt more through their doors
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Rowan Gormley, CEO, Majestic Wine (91)
It’s been a bumpy ride for Gormley since Majestic paid £70m for Naked Wines last April
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Julian Metcalfe, food entrepreneur (96)
The Richard Branson of food, Metcalfe has huge successes to his name in Pret a Manger, Itsu and Metcalfe’s Skinny
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Peter Aldis, CEO, Holland & Barrett (95)
Aldis has manoeuvred the health food retailer from a gloomy chain by leaping on health crazes and must-have ranges
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Laurence Olins, chairman, Poupart (97)
MD of Poupart since 1998, Olins has been growing fresh produce since the summer of 1969