People

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  • Summertime Musings

    17 August 2015 Speciality Bites
    By the time you read this, I will hopefully be enjoying some Italian sunshine and food, washed down with a large glass of cool Pinot Grigio!

  • The Living Wage

    04 August 2015 Speciality Bites
    Every time I have picked up a trade magazine since the budget a few weeks’ ago, I have had to read articles written by business leaders moaning about the new government’s plans to introduce the “Living Wage” rather than the current “Minimum Wage” by 2020

  • Funny - people, aren’t they?

    21 July 2015 Speciality Bites
    Maybe I am getting old, or maybe I am just becoming a “grumpy old man”, but the longer I live this life, the more peculiar people seem to become! Or perhaps I am a keener observer of people and can see through masks better than I…

  • “What’s in a name?”

    07 July 2015 Town Crier
    How do you describe your shoppers? Recently I participated in a marketing workshop where I was asked how I defined my customers, both actual and potential

  • “Cheshire days…”

    07 July 2015 Opinion
    Nantwich Cheese Awards has magical memories for many who have enjoyed its days in the past

  • “The science of combining food and wine”

    07 July 2015 Cheese Talk
    I was recently invited to be part of a panel to talk about the science behind matching cheese with wine – first the wine expert talked about the wine and a how each was made, then I talked about the cheeses and how they were made…

  • “Blame it on the weather”

    07 July 2015 Expert Eye
    For us at Partridges, the weather only started in 2004 when we moved to the Duke of York Square. Until that time, weather was something that happened to other people

  • “K.I.S.S.”

    07 July 2015 Fine Food
    No one places as much store by a fortuitous acronym than those toiling in the creative departments of advertising agencies. Nothing convinces a client like a handful of carefully chosen words that have been transformed into a neat sales aid

  • Christmas is Coming…

    29 June 2015 Speciality Bites
    Well, Christmas is in full swing now at retailers and wholesalers throughout the UK. Well, not quite, but we have received around 50% of our Christmas orders and there will be a flurry of orders between now and when the schools break up in a…

  • Selling Strategy

    05 June 2015 Speciality Bites
    A couple of comments this week from different quarters have caused me to think, and as I was with some retailers at the Association of Independent Stores Food Gift Show this week, generated some conversations there too

  • “Rep relationships”

    21 May 2015 Town Crier
    Are you now, or have you ever been, a rep? I was for a number of years, with responsibility for selling advertising in newspapers that had circulations in the millions (it was the 1980s), both in the US and the UK. Most of the job involved…

  • “Tell it as it is”

    21 May 2015 Cheese Talk
    When you write a book about cheese and have to come up with unique and interesting descriptions for over 750, you quickly come to realise that the English language is extremely thin on the ground for words to describe cheese and even thinner for words to…
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