Speciality Bites with

Paul Hargreaves

Chief executive of Cotswold Fayre

  • Soft Drinks Sales

    03 May 2019 Speciality Bites
    With the recent burst of warm weather (although it has since become very cold again!) we have turned our attention to soft drinks which offer one of the best rates of sale per SKU over the summer.

  • How does adopting a Triple Bottom Line approach to business really change the world?

    23 April 2019 Speciality Bites
    Much of the inequality in the world can be traced back to business as can much of the environmental damage.

  • The End of Show season

    15 April 2019 Speciality Bites
    I am not quite sure why but many of the food shows for the whole year are crammed into a few weeks before Easter.

  • Changing the world for better through employment

    01 April 2019 Speciality Bites
    Twenty years ago I came from the charitable sector into the world of business and set up a speciality food and drink wholesaler, Cotswold Fayre

  • How strong is our sector?

    25 March 2019 Speciality Bites
    After spending most of last week at trade events, I thought I would give an assessment this week of the strength of the speciality food sector

  • Brex-mess

    18 March 2019 Speciality Bites
    To my horror I had an e-mail a week or so ago reminding me that I am speaking in a Brexit debate at IFE this week. I had forgotten when I signed up to it several months ago, but really...

  • Retail Evolution

    11 March 2019 Speciality Bites
    I remember writing a blog post a few years ago after spending three days at the NEC on a stand that was on the border of the Convenience Show and the Farm Shop & Deli Show

  • Greenwash

    04 March 2019 Speciality Bites
    As we approach the third decade of the 21st century, many companies know they need to sharpen up their act on both how they treat their people, the people in their supply chains and the people of the world through...

  • Being B Corp

    25 February 2019 Speciality Bites
    It seems that in the fourth year since its launch in the UK, people are talking about B Corp more than ever in this B Corp month of February. Waitrose.com launched their on-line B Corp shop this month and grouped...

  • Buyer-supplier relationships

    18 February 2019 Speciality Bites
    One of the leading articles in ‘The Grocer’ this week was an article on buyer-supplier relationships, which told us “that a new study from the University of East Anglia claims to have unearthed new lessons about the buyer-supplier relationship. Dr...
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