Speciality Bites from Paul Hargreaves of Cotswold Fayre

… and the question on everyone’s lips that I talk to is, “What kind of Christmas will it be for the food retailer?” or “Will it be Christmas 2010 that drags us out of recession?”. My own empirical (non-scientific) research is that there is actually a great deal of optimism out there at present based (more…)

Granny used to say, “Breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dine like a pauper.” This taught Rude Health two important things: the first was to make breakfast as brilliant as possible. The second was only to visit granny at lunchtime. (more…)

When Prince Charles launched his Duchy Originals in 1990, it was trumpeted as a “brand for the independents”. “At last”, farm shops and deli owners thought, “there is a brand with some marketing clout behind it that we can sell in our shops and not worry about it being in the local supermarket at a lower price.” (more…)