Speciality Bites with

Paul Hargreaves

Chief executive of Cotswold Fayre

  • Variety is the spice of life

    22 March 2021 Speciality Bites
    Never has a saying been truer than that. With many of us having less variety in our lives than ever for the past year, with the year anniversary of lockdown tomorrow, let’s briefly explore this week how to invigorate our lives...

  • How misogynist is our society today?

    15 March 2021 Speciality Bites
    Two events happened last week that shed light on different answers to this question.

  • Climate change – why aren’t more of us freaking out?

    08 March 2021 Speciality Bites
    To most of us it is undeniable that we are now in an age of potentially irreversible climate change and damage to our planet. Weather patterns are more unpredictable than ever. Species are dying at the fastest ever rate. Wildfires...

  • B Corps – a Growing Movement

    01 March 2021 Speciality Bites
    When I first heard of B Corps back in 2013 from Ed Perry, Co-Founder of Cook, I thought the name sounded rather American and wondered what on earth he was encouraging me to become involved in. However, after exploring further...

  • Which trends will continue post-lockdown?

    22 February 2021 Speciality Bites
    On the day when we are going to be presented with a route out of lockdown, how many of the changes we have seen during the past 12 months continue throughout 2021? Many of us had hoped we would be...

  • What’s love got to do with it?

    15 February 2021 Speciality Bites
    The word ‘love’ was rarely used in a business context until recent years. In fact, in some places using the word ‘love’ would have prompted phone calls to HR and potential disciplinary proceedings. Is it OK to love your people, your...

  • The Stockdale Paradox

    08 February 2021 Speciality Bites
    “You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end — which you can never afford to lose — with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.” — Admiral James...

  • Have we learned our lessons?

    01 February 2021 Speciality Bites
    I’ll confess to being a little exasperated this week to hear the squabbling amongst various governments about allocations of vaccines available to them. This vaccine nationalism, as some have called it, suggests that many haven’t learned the lessons from the last...

  • A Brexit Nightmare

    25 January 2021 Speciality Bites
    One of our suppliers, Cheshire Cheese Co, was in the newspapers at the weekend talking about their Brexit woes and that they had seen £250k revenues disappear overnight. They are not alone, and many small food and drink businesses are facing...

  • Turning Intention to Lasting Change

    18 January 2021 Speciality Bites
    It is around this time of year when a sense of guilt sets in for some. The New Year resolutions we set ourselves only a few weeks ago may have failed already and we feel ourselves slipping back into the...
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