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About Paul
"I speak about bringing compassion and love into businesses to enable them to be better businesses as well as changing the world for good"
Founder of Cotswold Fayre, a speciality food wholesaler, and Flourish, a 9,000 ft food hall, restaurant and home & lifestyle store.
Twenty-five years ago, Paul founded Cotswold Fayre, a speciality food wholesaler, from his house in inner-city London whilst he was also engaging in charitable work within the local community. The company grew rapidly to become the leading speciality food and drink wholesaler to retail in the UK and now suppliers 2,000 retailers across the UK.
In June 2021 he opened Flourish, a 9,000 sq. ft. foodhall, restaurant and Home & Lifestyle store with a brand-new team, which has helped the whole company live out its values to the world.
As one of the UK’s founding B Corps, the tremendous success of the multi-award-winning company has been down to creating a great place to work and one that focusses on changing the world for better, through its environmental and social sustainability programmes.
Creating a business that is not only good for people and planet but also profits is too much good news to keep to himself, so Paul has since 2018 spoken to thousands of business leaders across the UK and Europe inspiring them to put more heart and soul into their businesses.
He speaks about bringing compassion and love into business which creates not only better business but better people, a better world, and better profits.
Paul has also had two books published. The first in 2019, Forces for Good which describes the journey of his company and others into being businesses for good. Paul’s second book, The Fourth Bottom Line, is a book on the essential characteristics of compassionate leadership.