Archive of all profile articles – Page 31
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ProfilesFlying the flag
Rarely has a single year presented so many opportunities for British food and drink to fly the flag as 2012. But what’s the best way to do it?
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ProfilesOlympic feast
The Games’ head of catering, Jan Matthews, outlines her vision for London 2012.
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ProfilesYoung British Foodies: Charlotte Harbottle
During her short career Charlotte Harbottle has worked for six different butchers. She landed her current job - at O’Shea’s in Knightsbridge - after the owner of the shop saw her blog, girlbutcher.co.uk.
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ProfilesYoung British Foodies: Ole Hansen
Ole Hansen is a Norwegian salmon smoker who runs a smokehouse in Stoke Newington. Four generations of his family have worked in the salmon smoking industry. Hansen uses a family recipe that dates back to 1923.
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ProfilesYoung British Foodies: Victor Frankowsksi
After training with Union Hand Roasted and Climpson and Sons, Victor Frankowsksi set up creative coffee company DunneFrankowski and The Sunday Club, a coffee gastronomy training course.
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ProfilesTom Lidstone, Care UK
I worked at Transport for London from 2005 to 2007, before joining Britvic as head of resourcing. I joined Care UK last year.
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ProfilesRocker turned 'dadpreneur'
Former musician and brand consultant Dan Brown was so fed up with the lack of healthy frozen treats for kids, he launched his own.
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Where are they now?: Paul Mason
Paul Mason has worked in the retail industry for 30 years and has held a number of top jobs in the grocery sector. He started his career at Mars, before moving on to B&Q
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ProfilesA three Weetabix man
Weetabix boss Giles Turrell tells The Grocer about his plans for stealing more share of the British cereal market and taking the brand global.
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Kids to 'See Inside' food manufacturing
The food and drink manufacturing sector is to throw open its doors this summer in a bid to inspire kids to consider a career in manufacturing.
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ProfilesTim 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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ProfilesColin 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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ProfilesFull 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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ProfilesMartin Beaumont
Martin Beaumont was chief executive at The Co-operative Group between 2002 and 2007.
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ProfilesJohn 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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ProfilesKaren 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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ProfilesJemima 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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ProfilesIt'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.