Speciality Bites with

Paul Hargreaves

Chief executive of Cotswold Fayre

  • “Ordinary people”

    04 December 2016 Speciality Bites
    I have been watching on “catch up” a BBC series 'Ordinary Lies' recommended by a friend. Just as well as I wouldn’t have normally watched it - the title didn’t really do it for me! It is a well put together,...

  • “Scandinavia”

    14 November 2016 Speciality Bites
    I am currently spending a few days in Scandinavia, in particular, Sweden and Denmark. I arrived in Stockholm on Saturday to be greeted by over a foot of snow thinking this is normal for these parts. It turns out that...

  • “Communication is king”

    03 November 2016 Speciality Bites
    Tempting though it is to talk about Brexit again, with some slightly positive news for business this week from the High Court judges, I am going to refrain, as some of you may be bored! Instead I am going to...

  • “Silly season is on its way”

    24 October 2016 Speciality Bites
    Many of us are just back from SIAL in Paris. Well there are worse places to go for a trade show I can think of!

  • “Currency pressure”

    07 October 2016 Speciality Bites
    Whether a fat finger blip or not sterling had already reached a 31 year low against the dollar last week, before plummeting to $1.14

  • “Are the chips down?”

    26 September 2016 Speciality Bites
    I have been thinking this week about chips; not those to have with chips, nor those that used to be called crisps, but those resident on some people’s shoulders!

  • To Export or Not to Export

    12 September 2016 Speciality Bites
    Britain is "too lazy and too fat" with businessmen preferring "golf on a Friday afternoon" to trying to boost the country's prosperity, Liam Fox has said, and since then suffered a lot of abuse from others

  • Show time!

    02 September 2016 Speciality Bites
    It’s our favourite time of year, and I think my 17th Speciality & Fine Food Fair

  • Time for a Break?

    11 August 2016 Speciality Bites
    The chances are that you are reading this before you go on holiday or after you come back, and hopefully not whilst you are away! I had to chuckle to myself when listening to the headline news on the radio...

  • Try Something Different

    01 August 2016 Speciality Bites
    After a very busy summer so far, finally I have had the opportunity over the last couple of weeks to call into a few speciality food retailers
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