John Stapleton

john stapleton is the 'authentic entrepreneur'​ with 30 years’ experience in pioneering new fmcg categories and establishing and growing successful consumer-led businesses in both the uk and the usa. john now actively manages an investor/non-executive director portfolio contributing value-added business growth advice, guidance and mentoring to business owners. john has first-hand experience in start-up, early stage growth and scale-up stage businesses, having co-founded 3 fmcg businesses, building and growing each to exit. john helps design creative, practical, experience-based solutions to problems, challenges and opportunities that brand owners encounter in starting, growing and scaling their companies, across all areas of business. in 1987 john co-founded the new covent garden soup co ltd., which pioneered and grew the fresh soup category in the uk. on reaching over £20m revenue, daniels plc bought new covent garden soup co in 1998. in that same year, john co-founded glencoe foods i