* Job title: trading manager
* Date you joined the company: December 1997
* Responsible for: grocery, biscuits and confectionery
* Senior School attended: Cheslyn Hay Sport & Community High School, Walsall, West Midlands
* Married/single/family: married to Becky with two sons, James and Max, and a new baby is expected in October
* How is your leisure time spent: spending time taking my young sons James and Max to the park, and swimming
* Offer one piece of advice to help suppliers succeed with you: be honest with us and always do the deal
* The best promotion currently running with our customers is: granulated sugar 15x1kg
* My vote for the best current/recent TV/press advertising is: the Cadbury Dairy Milk Chocolate TV advertisement featuring the gorilla playing the drums
* The best new product launch in the past year is: the new Oreo snack pack chocolate flavoured sandwich biscuit 20x66g
* Gripe of the month: When suppliers fail to provide the correct information, such as barcodes and cost prices, on pack changes, price-marked and added value packs
Will Government proposals to ban the display of tobacco in retail premises damage the wholesale sector?
