Speciality Bites with

Paul Hargreaves

Chief executive of Cotswold Fayre

  • Trust

    06 March 2012 Speciality Bites
    Another week, another country – only this time, it is only Scotland, which is currently in the UK – although if Alex Salmond has his way, not after 2014.

  • Delegation, thats’s what you need…

    27 February 2012 Speciality Bites
    “If you want to be the best, if you want to beat the rest, delegation is what you need.” Actually it was dedication that the late Roy Castle used to sing about on Record Breakers - a memory from my childhood....

  • I love speed-dating

    15 February 2012 Speciality Bites
    I am just back from Ireland and still recovering from the splendid Irish hospitality in Dublin. Just as two years ago the Marketplace event in Dublin this week has to go down as one of the best events in the...

  • Company Culture

    26 January 2012 Speciality Bites
    I have been thinking this week about Company Culture. I am pleased with the atmosphere and commitment we have at Cotswold Fayre and it has always been my aim to create a culture that is fun to work in rather...

  • Californian Dream

    24 January 2012 Speciality Bites
    I am writing this just at the end of my trip to the Fancy Food Show in San Francisco. Off to the airport in an hour

  • Happy New Year

    10 January 2012 Speciality Bites
    Happy New Year. A lot to tell you about, so better get going! What a year 2011 was; I think many of us will be pleased to see the back of it, to be honest.

  • Local Shopping In The News

    19 December 2011 Speciality Bites
    As I write this Mary Portas has just announced her plans for regenerating the high street in Great Britain via a 50 page report, which, I hasten to add, I haven’t read!

  • All Work, No Play….?

    28 November 2011 Speciality Bites
    Well it is certainly that time of year for us – we have just had our busiest eight weeks of the year and everything should start to return to sanity soon, just as the retailers start to have their manic time...

  • Competition - Good Or Bad?

    01 November 2011 Speciality Bites
    Last weekend I went to Jersey at the invitation of one of our suppliers, La Mare Wine Estate, who make the most fantastic product, Jersey Black Butter, as well as making their own wine and distilling their own brandy! Quite...

  • To Anuga And Beyond…

    17 October 2011 Speciality Bites
    This time last week I was at what is known as the biggest food show in the world – and certainly if the number of visitors was anything to go by it seemed to live up to its billing.
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