Speciality Bites with

Paul Hargreaves

Chief executive of Cotswold Fayre

  • Balls to the Olympics!

    20 July 2012 Speciality Bites
    Don’t take that too literally, I am going to start taking about our ball and finish on the Olympics

  • Key to Success

    09 July 2012 Speciality Bites
    I am nearing the end of my annual two week holiday - the only rule being each year we go somewhere I haven't been before!

  • Off to Harrogate

    25 June 2012 Speciality Bites
    I write this just before I drive up to Harrogate for the main speciality food show of the summer, which is mainly full of consumer shows not trade

  • Sleeping with the Enemy?

    07 June 2012 Speciality Bites
    When Olives et al announced very publicly last week that they were supplying 4 of their lines into Sainsbury’s I had a number of people on social media goading me into a swift response to condemn this scurrilous activity!

  • Summer Tips for Selling

    08 May 2012 Speciality Bites
    It really does seem that we are all heading into this summer in a much more positive frame of mind than last year

  • Postcard from Macedonia

    25 April 2012 Speciality Bites
    It is a long time since I have been to the Balkans – too long in fact! The last time was just up the road from here in Kosovo (then part of Serbia) and war was breaking out all over...

  • The Year Starts Here

    16 April 2012 Speciality Bites
    The Grocer confirmed in this week’s issue that the wife of Waitrose CEO, Mark Price, has been the director of a business that has been treating food suppliers appalling for years

  • Sun, Shows & Bad Debts

    05 April 2012 Speciality Bites
    Generally exhibitors seemed pleased with Food & Drink Expo up at the NEC last week, although the numbers were down on the Sunday (largely due to the heat wave), this was made up for on Monday and Tuesday

  • Show Talk

    02 April 2012 Speciality Bites
    I am currently at #fooddrinkexpo where I can tell you that the summer sun has made it inside the NEC and everyone is in a great mood

  • Giving Something Back!

    13 March 2012 Speciality Bites
    The trouble is at Cotswold Fayre we can never do things by halves. We now find ourselves organising a massive event in the summer on top of everything else we are doing relating to the business
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