Founder of FutureFoodservice
With 30+ years’ experience of working in, developing, analysing and commentating on the UK foodservice/hospitality industry, Simon is acknowledged as the leading analyst of the market and recognised as an expert in making sense out of all the data and insight available; Simon is now making sense of the future as Founder of Future Foodservice, a forecasting and advisory business.
With a career founded in operations, managing hotels & restaurants, and with Pret A Manger through the late nineties, Simon moved into marketing and development with Compass Group. At which point Simon completed a Postgrad diploma in Marketing, enabling a move into strategic marketing and market intelligence.
Simon worked with management consultancy Allegra Strategies, developing Allegra Foodservice as a leading source of market intelligence; This was sold to William Reed Business Media where Simon created and led MCA from 2014 to 2019, merging the data, insight, news and events businesses.
Simon stepped down from MCA in order to launch FutureFoodservice, providing unique foresight for the whole spectrum of the hospitality and foodservice market.
The most recent future foresight report that Simon has written is ‘Future Foodservice - 2030 Vision’ which incorporates detailed forecasts for each sector of the UK market, and longer term trends.
