Rosemary Shrager, Celebrity cook
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Rosemary Shrager is a talented and versatile chef, who loves talking about food as much as she loves cooking. She is a natural extrovert and communicator, whose professional career includes a period
working for Pierre Koffman – at the internationally-famous Tante Claire restaurant in London and also a period working for Jean-Christophe Novelli... Read more...
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Sir Terence Conran, Habitat founder and design guru
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| Terence Conran was born in Kingston upon Thames in 1931, and educated at Bryanston School in Dorset and Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, where he studied textiles...
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Christian Haas, Central buyer for homewares at Waitrose
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| Christian Haas began his career at Toys R Us on the shop floor, moving to head office five years later as a Trainee Buyer.
He progressed through the ranks and left the business after nine years as buyer for video games... Read more...
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David Miller, Harrods home director
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David Miller’s career started with Bejam Frozen Foods (now Iceland) and Marks & Spencer. In 1991 he moved to Habitat,
where he took on numerous buying and merchandising roles within tabletop, cookware and furniture...
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Charles Campion, Food writer
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After some success in a 15-year mission to climb the slippery pole that represents a career in advertising, Charles Campion sold up in London and bought a ruined mansion in Buxton, Derbyshire. With his wife,
Sylvia, he set about turning it into a luxury hotel and restaurant and took on the role of head chef.
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Adrienne Moyce, Associate publisher, Delicious magazine, Seven Publishing.
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Adrienne Moyce began her career in publishing in 1986 at IPC Media as sales executive on Ideal Home. She spent 14 years within IPC, rising to advertisement director of the Home and Gardening group
(Homes &Gardens, Ideal Home, Country Homes and Interiors, Homes and Ideas, 25 Beautiful Homes, Living etc, Amateur Gardening and Your Garden).
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Bruce Crane, Owner and managing director of Norwich cookshop Looses, and managing director, ICTC
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| Reluctant to get his career underway, Bruce Crane spent two gap years working in London and travelling the world, and four years at Loughborough University, from where he graduated in 1984 with a Management Science degree.
Eventually starting work at 25, his retail career has been both interesting and unconventional... Read more...
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Conference facilitator: Gary Gordon, Joint owner of cookshop chain Kitchen Kapers
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