Speciality Bites with
Paul Hargreaves
Chief executive of Cotswold Fayre
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The Euros
13 June 2016 Speciality BitesMatters 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 BitesWith 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 BitesIt 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 BitesIf 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 BitesIt 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 BitesI 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 BitesThis 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... -
Trade Shows
15 February 2016 Speciality BitesWow, that was quite a tough few weeks. I have been up and down the land with our 2016 Launch Events together with our 40 new suppliers for 2016. Chuck in Scotland’s Speciality Food Show for 4 days and the annual... -
Consolidation
25 January 2016 Speciality BitesIt seems that the larger speciality food retailers are waking up to the fact that consolidation of supply is the only way forward in the sector -
What do people need?
11 January 2016 Speciality BitesBy the time you read this, someone will be £60 Million richer as the winner of the largest jackpot ever in the National Lottery