1-2-3-Food

The idea is quite simple.  We ask leading figures in the Food and Drink Sector to let us have their thoughts.  More specifically:

For their Business - One success from the last year

For their sector - Two challenges and Three forecasts

Contributors so far

• Simon Stenning - one of the UK's leading minds on the eating out market
• Karen Green - food business mentor and author 
• Mark Suthern - head of Agriculture and Food for Barclays Bank
• Nicola Thomas - director of the Food and Drink Exporters Association
• Erik Wallin - founder and CMO of high-tech business Northfork
• Steve Osborn - co-founder of food innovation business Aurora Ceres
• Guy Moreton - CEO of food and agriculture recruitment specialists MorePeople 
• Sam Feller - co-founder of gourmet popcorn brand Popcorn Shed
• John Giles - divisional Director of Promar International
• Val Braybrooks - Dean of the University of Lincoln's Holbeach campus
• Christine Tacon - chair of fresh produce training and recruitment scheme MDS Ltd
• Paul Jenkins - founder of packaging consultancy ThePackHub
• Greg Campher - founder of sustainable coffee brand Easy Jose Coffee
• Lee Chapman - director of multi-disciplinary practice, Arctica
• Steve Maxwell - CEO of Worldwide Fruit
• William Burgess  - Chairman of Burgess Farms/Produce World Group
• Shane Brennan - CEO of the Cold Chain Federation
• Duncan Swift -  Partner and Head of Food at accountants Moore UK
• Jake Norman - Head of Sales at OAL (Olympus Automation Ltd)
• Niall Macalister Hall - CEO at Beinn an Tuirc Distillers
• Norman Bagley - Head of Policy at the Association of Independent Meat Suppliers
• Peter Durose -  Managing Director of Coregeo.
• Robert Kedzlie - Founder and Managing Director of NPD Direct
• Mike Davies - Executive Chairman of Eider Vertical Farming
• Duncan Farrington - Fourth generation farmer and founder of Farrington’s Mellow Yellow
• Wayne Martindale - Associate Professor at the National Centre for Food Manufacturing (NCFM)
• Garry Bainbridge - Co-founder of online fish retailer ish Fish
• Simon Pattinson - Co-founder of leading chocolate brand Montezumas
• Edwin Bark - Experienced CEO in the plant-based sector
• Lindsay Boswell - CEO of food charity FareShare
• Laura Ryan - Founder and Global Chair of Meat Business Women 

We thank our contributors, and if you have any comments please do get in touch with Mark Dodds, markdodds@roythornes.co.uk.