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1 week ago | 
thegrocer.co.uk | Charles Wright
Name: Anna Owen
Job Title: Cluster head of sustainability UK & Ireland
Company: Birds Eye
What was your first job? Part-time was on the checkouts at my local Sainsbury’s. Full-time was the Unilever grad scheme – at what was then Birds Eye Wall’s. So this is a full circle move for me.
What’s been your worst job interview? A university internship with a big-name consultancy where I accidentally trash-talked the very premise of consultancy itself. Unsurprisingly, I didn’t make the cut.
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1 week ago | 
thegrocer.co.uk | Charles Wright
Co-op is bringing bold flavours, fuss-free formats and quick convenience to the picnic table this summer with the launch of its summer 2025 own-label range. Spanning nearly 100 new and returning SKUs, the lineup caters to everything from spontaneous picnics to back-garden barbecues.
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1 week ago | 
thegrocer.co.uk | Charles Wright
Name: Vic Gomm
Age: 28
Job title: Head of off-trade
Company & location: Jubel, London
Education: Food Marketing & Nutrition BSc at Newcastle University
As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up? Up until about the age of 16 I really wanted to be a vet! But then I did some work experience in an exotic pet shop and decided it maybe wasn’t for me.
Why did you decide to go for a career in food & drink?
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2 weeks ago | 
thegrocer.co.uk | Charles Wright
Tesco is expanding its chilled and frozen dessert lineup this summer, leaning into trending flavours like pistachio, cinnamon and limoncello, and global influences from Italy and the US.
With younger consumers abandoning three square meals in favour of round-the-clock snacking, cakes and ice cream are increasingly playing double duty as both treat and occasion with take-home volume sales of small cakes are up 7% [Kantar 52 w/e 7 July 2024].
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2 weeks ago | 
thegrocer.co.uk | Charles Wright
Name: Carl Saxton-Pizzie
Job title: Founder
Company: Wholegood
What was your first job? I joined theatre school at the age of seven or eight and my first job was a photoshoot for Zest soap around that time. The work I secured as a child actor helped cover my theatre school fees, alongside a council grant and support from the school.
What’s been your worst job interview? I haven’t interviewed for a traditional job, but I’ve had some memorably awkward auditions.
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2 weeks ago | 
thegrocer.co.uk | Charles Wright
Name: Alex Carter
Age: 25
Job title: National account manager – OOH
Company & location: Perfetti Van Melle, Old Windsor
Education: University of Edinburgh – Classical Studies
As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up? I was fascinated by myths and legends as a child, think Hercules, hieroglyphics, codes, so for a short time I thought about becoming an archaeologist.
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2 weeks ago | 
thegrocer.co.uk | Charles Wright
Name: Evie Elliott
Age: 22
Job title: Engineer
Company & location: Weetabix – Burton Latimer, Northamptonshire
Education: Level 2 and Level 3 advanced maintenance engineering as an apprenticeship, and this summer finishing my HNC Level 4 in general engineering.
As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up? I wanted to be a professional musician, playing percussion in symphony orchestras, or as a session drum kit player. Music was my life growing up and still is.
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3 weeks ago | 
thegrocer.co.uk | Charles Wright
Name: Tom Walker
Job title: Co-founder
Company: Holy Moly
What was your first job? I set up my first business when I was 14, which was a mobile disco for kids parties. I used to ask my parents for bits of equipment for birthdays and Christmases (what 14-year-old wouldn’t want a smoke machine for their 14th birthday!?). I’d advertise in local corner shop windows and my dad would act as roadie, driving me to gigs and sitting outside in the car reading the paper.
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3 weeks ago | 
thegrocer.co.uk | Charles Wright
Name: Amy Day
Age: 29
Job title: Senior brand manager – Mr Kipling UK
Company & location: Premier Foods, St Albans
Education: International Business Management at University of Manchester
As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up? This changed a lot but when I was at primary school, I wanted to be a teacher and throughout secondary school a journalist. I also loved baking and ballet as hobbies.
Why did you decide to go for a career in food & drink?
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1 month ago | 
thegrocer.co.uk | Charles Wright
Name: Milly Bagot
Job title: Co-founder
Company: ByRuby
What was your first job? Working in my grandparents’ farm shop. They had a trout farm in Yorkshire and my sister and I used to teeter on stools over the sink behind the scenes, gutting and cleaning fish. We’d also help my granny conduct tastings of Swaledale cheese or make up hampers at Christmas time.
What’s been your worst job interview? The local estate agent in Lancaster for flyering.
