Paul Hargreaves

Paul Hargreaves is a speaker, author, and CEO of Cotswold Fayre, a large speciality food and drink wholesale business supplying more than 2,000 retail sites in the UK. In 2021, the company opened Flourish, its first foodhall, restaurant, and home and lifestyle store. Cotswold Fayre was named Elite Business’ No 1 in The SME Top 100. It has won the Lloyd’s Bank Purpose before Profit Award. Hargreaves is one of the leading voices in the UK encouraging and inspiring businesses to make a positive impact on the world, strongly believing that businesses should be a “Force for Good,” which is the title of his first book (https://amzn.eu/d/9S12bFc). His team of 120-plus is constantly looking for ways to be generous and compassionate by putting people and planet before profit. Hargreaves 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. This is what he calls “The Fourth Bottom Line,” the title of his second book (https://amzn.eu/d/etUjwe3).