Archive of all profiles and Q&A articles – Page 31
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Tim Fisher of Butlers Farmhouse Cheeses
It’s hard work but a reasonably informal environment and very innovative. There’s always something new to get your teeth into.
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William Reed offers eLearning training
William Reed Business Media, the publisher of The Grocer, has launched an eLearning website to make it easier and simpler for businesses to train their staff.
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Colin Holmes
Holmes spent the vast majority of his retail career at Tesco, joining the supermarket giant in 1988 and working his way up the organisation.
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Full steam ahead for Stewed!
Not content with an ever-increasing presence in the mults, Stewed! MD Alan Rosenthal is taking the range into the UK’s train stations.
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Martin Beaumont
Martin Beaumont was chief executive at The Co-operative Group between 2002 and 2007.
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John Longworth
Longworth originally trained as a scientist, but chalked up a considerable stint in the grocery sector, working at The Co-op for eight years, Tesco for 14 years and Asda for five.
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Karen Fream of 1HQ
The client director of shopping engagement at 1HQ on job interview parking mishaps, her fancy dress compulsion and Victoria Beckham.
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Jemima Bird
Following stints with Asda and The Co-op, where she helped developed the ‘Good with food’ strapline, Jemima worked as marketing director for Musgrave GB.
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It's All About Food
With sales of his restaurant-licensed products tipped to top £16m in 2012, MD and entrepreneur Phil Lynas shares his recipe for success.
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Philip Davies MP
Davies worked for Asda from September 1993 to May 2005, when he was elected MP for Shipley.
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Peter Pritchard
Pritchard was head of buying for Wilkinson and is now commercial director for Pets At Home.
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Gambling on a real point of difference
With his Merseyside-based L7 Village Market, Steve Jagota is taking on the multiples. And his ‘old-fashioned’ approach seems to be paying dividends.
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Oliver Meakin
Meakin spent three years at Somerfield as director of strategy and business systems, until it was acquired by The Co-operative Group in 2009.
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William Kendall
The entrepreneur turned both The New Covent Garden Soup Co and Green & Black’s into successful companies.
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Lord Haskins of Skidby
He transformed Northern Dairies into a major force in chilled foods as Northern Foods and served as chairman for more than 20 years
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Peter Garvin
In 1977, he launched Nisa with Dudley Ramsden - followed by The Today’s Group in 1987. Garvin served as chairman of Nisa-Today’s between 1997 and 1999
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Dudley Ramsden
Dudley Ramsden formed Nisa with Peter Garvin in 1977 and is now life president - as well as chairman of the Ramsden Group.
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Claire Henzell of The Feel Good Drinks Co
Claire is national account manager in the sales team at the drinks supplier.
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Jim Walker, CBE
Jim helped develop Walkers Shortbread into the largest family-owned biscuit manufacturer in the UK.
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Perween Warsi, CBE
The founder and chief executive of S&A Foods, which supplies chilled ethnic ready meals for sale throughout the UK and internationally