Speciality Bites with

Paul Hargreaves

Chief executive of Cotswold Fayre

  • Moving On!

    20 July 2016 Speciality Bites
    Sorry it’s been a couple of weeks since my last blog, but this has been at the end of an extremely busy two months and I am glad to start this week as a “normal week” for the first time for a...

  • What does Brexit mean for the food industry?

    29 June 2016 Speciality Bites
    Ok, so there is no doubt what was front of mind for New Yorkers over the past few days whilst I was at the Fancy Food Show. Brexit! Hotel receptionists, porters, potential suppliers, waiters were all asking what was happening...

  • EU Referendum

    20 June 2016 Speciality Bites
    No doubt what the big event is this week. England and Wales’ matches this week at the Euros, whilst important to some, aren’t quite going to affect our futures as much as the vote on Thursday

  • The Euros

    13 June 2016 Speciality Bites
    Matters European are everyone’s focus for the next two weeks, by which time we may be out of Europe both politically and in the football. We’ll leave aside the football this week after Saturday’s results, and concentrate on 23rd June

  • Constant Change is Here to Stay

    27 May 2016 Speciality Bites
    With the EU referendum coming up and a warehouse move this weekend at Cotswold Fayre, I have been thinking about change. We work in an industry that is all about innovation and change and those that don’t embrace change tend not...

  • The Year of the Underdog

    05 May 2016 Speciality Bites
    It looks like it’s becoming the year of the underdog in sport with virtual unknown, Danny Willett, winning the US Masters Golf and Leicester just clinching the Football Premier League with odds at the beginning of the season of 5000-1

  • Understanding the Millennials Part 2

    18 April 2016 Speciality Bites
    If you have read previous posts, you will know that I have spent some time recently trying to work out what makes “millennials” tick both in terms of working out consumer trends but also in terms of harnessing their energy and...

  • Living Wage - Stop Moaning

    06 April 2016 Speciality Bites
    It seems that every magazine that lands on my desk has an article by retailers moaning about having to pay their staff the new living wage that came in on 1st April. Do bear in mind that this...

  • Millenial Energy

    23 March 2016 Speciality Bites
    I don’t just think it’s because I am getting older (just having celebrated a very large birthday), but I am sure there is a much higher number of younger people in the speciality food sector these days. It could well be...

  • Retail Trends

    19 February 2016 Speciality Bites
    This is always my favourite time of year for two reasons. Firstly we launch our new brands for 2016, and this year we did that through 5 launch events throughout the UK. In addition to that it is “show time” so...
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