Archive of all profiles and Q&A articles – Page 58
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Profiles and QandAs
Q&A with Ann Plenderleith Manager of the Week
What is your greatest challenge and how do you deal with it? Availability is our greatest challenge but we also strive for great customer service. We have a company process in place that we follow for availability and we ensure we keep...
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My Favourite Things Alan Wright, joint managing director, Freshway Foods
What's your favourite restaurant? A small country restaurant near Uttoxeter. The Head Chef owns it and has a passion for top-grade food. Do you prefer healthy food or junk food? I like to think I now eat far more healthily. Have...
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Interview
A catalogue of tragic events left Sue Starling in despair but intervention from the grocery industry benevolent fund Caravan has given her hope. Caravan provides help and support to more than 1,300 former grocery workers and their families who...
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My Favourite Things Nigel Parrott, group marketing director, New Covent Garden Food Co
What's your favourite restaurant and what do you like about it? Finos in Charlotte Street, London. The tapas is informal and the foie gras is the best I've had in the UK. It's run by the sons of the owner of Hambleton Hall in Rutland. Do...
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Greencore restructure brings new leadership
Convenience foods manufacturer Greencore Group has appointed three new category managing directors following a restructure. Over the past three years, Greencore Cakes and Desserts has been run as a single business with Greencore Frozen...
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Q&A with Andrew Major Manager of the Week
What is your greatest challenge and how do you deal with it? Customer service and availability are the key drivers for me and are also the two most important measures for driving footfall and growing like-for-like sales, which is exactly...
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Welsh meat role for Smith
Kirsten Smith is to become red meat executive at Hybu Cig Cymru, Meat Promotion Wales. The new role sees her take responsibility for enhancing, delivering and implementing Welsh red-meat strategy to complement Welsh Assembly policies for...
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Q&A with Mark Prout Manager of the Week
What's been keeping you busy? We have just reopened the store after an extensive refit and enlargement programme, which has lasted for a total of 32 weeks. It's been a pretty major challenge, as the majority of the work was done while the store...
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My Favourite Things Piero Sardano, head of food and restaurants, House of Fraser
What's your favourite restaurant? Racine in Knightsbridge. Great French food. Do you prefer healthy food or junk food? Healthy, fresh food. My Greek grandmother made everything from scratch. It developed my passion for good...
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Climbing the ladder
What was the best decision you have made in your career and why? Walking away from a steady paycheck and a corporate job I wasn't enjoying. I would not have been able to dedicate the time and energy to starting my own business if I had not made...
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Climbing the ladder
How did you get to where you are today? I started out in strategy consultancy working on brand positioning and innovation across all kinds of sectors from ice cream to mobile phones. This gave me a thorough grounding in what makes brands grow....
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Floella is getting all playful in the Kitchen
Floella Benjamin, known to a certain age group as a presenter of TV's Play School, is capitalising on her later reputation as a champion of Caribbean cuisine by developing a food range. Set for launch in March, the first products off the...
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Interview
How did you get where you are today? I had no ambitions to get into food but I joined the sector in 1987 as a graduate trainee production manager with Marshall Food Group, a big UK poultry processor. I was there for 11 years,...
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McGettigan leaves a hole at Dunnes
Dunnes Stores, the Irish Republic's number-two grocery retailer, is in the market for a new director of food after Eoin McGettigan's move into the sportswear sector. McGettigan is to become chief executive of Lifestyle Sports, a chain...
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Defra lends Young to lead FDF sustainability
As the Government turns up the heat on environmental issues, the Food and Drink Federation has named Callton Young as its new director of sustainability and competitiveness. Young, who takes up the position with immediate effect, has...
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From meat to seafood
Robert Mitchell has been appointed group commercial manager at Macrae Food Group. In a new role for the company, Mitchell will improve the management of key customer accounts operated by Macrae and its parent company Young's...
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Marketing big hitter at bigger Lactalis
Martin Rickenback has been appointed to the new role of group marketing director for Lactalis McLelland, which includes the former Lactalis UK and Ireland operations and Glasgow-based cheesemaker A McLelland & Son. Lactalis said the...
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In Brief: Board news; OFT policy chief; The craft of logistics; Bradshaw rises; Heart beat
Board news Charlotte Morey, trading manager of MBL and Gavin Tennent, retail development manager of WRVS, which runs hospital shops and cafés, have joined the board of directors of the Association of News Retailing. James Lowman,...
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Interview
How did you get where you are today? I started my career at Cadbury, where I worked for four years within the marketing and sales department. I then took on the role of regional account manager at Allied Bakeries, later joining...
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Thompson new MD at Inter Link Foods
Chris Thompson is the new MD of cake manufacturer Inter Link Foods, replacing Paul Griffiths who stepped down last month to pursue charitable interests. Thompson rises from group finance director, a role he has held since 2004....