Warburtons boss reveals how Samuel L Jackson and The Muppets helped transform bakery giant November 28, 2024 The boss of Warburtons has said the bakery giant would not be where it is today without the help of Hollywood A-listers Samuel L Jackson, George Clooney, Robert De Niro, Sylvester Stallone – and The Muppets. Chairman Jonathan Warburton, part of the fifth generation of the family to lead the Bolton business, has seen the [...]
How Arla Foods boss went from selling cigarettes to Lurpak and Cravendale November 15, 2024 A globe-trotting career that began selling cigarettes at British American Tobacco and has led to heading up the UK arm of dairy giant Arla Foods is maybe not what Bas Padberg could have predicted when he started out in the early 1990s. The managing director of the group behind Lurpak, Cravendale, Skyr and B.O.B milk [...]
Should a business be like your family? The boss of B&Q thinks so November 5, 2024 A business should be more like a family in order to attract employees with the right moral and cultural judgements, the boss of B&Q has said.
‘I told Henry Cavill’s PR to f**k off’: When interviews go wrong June 4, 2024 My celebrity interview with Henry Cavill, for instance, ended with me telling the event organiser to “f**k off” as I stormed out