Speakers

Paul Hargreaves has been one of the leading voices in the UK encouraging and inspiring businesses to make a positive impact on the world for the past ten years. He strongly believes that businesses should be a Force for Good, which is the title of his first book. 

Paul’s main role is as CEO of Cotswold Fayre, a large speciality food and drink wholesale business supplying over 2,000 retail sites in the UK. The company diversified in June 2021 by opening Flourish, its first foodhall, restaurant and home and lifestyle store and is opening a second site in 2024.

Cotswold Fayre was one of the UK’s founding B Corps in 2015 and the company was named as Elite Business’s No 1 in The SME Top 100 and won the Lloyd’s Bank ‘Purpose before Profit Award in 2022. In 2023 the company won a coveted Grocer Gold Award. Paul’s team of over 130 are constantly looking for ways to be generous and compassionate by putting people and planet before profit and this is what they determine to be real success.

Paul believes that to bring the radical and systemic change required to reverse climate change and the growing inequality in the world a new compassionate, loving and servant-hearted leadership is required and that is what he calls The Fourth Bottom Line, and the name of his second book.