John Stapleton

Co-Founder at The New Covent Garden Soup Co Ltd | United Kingdom

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. John then co-founded Glencoe Foods Inc., to bring the fresh soup concept to the

US. In 2005, John co-founded Little Dish, which supplies healthy, natural and convenient meals and

snacks to children over one year old. Little Dish created the chilled toddler food category for fresh

toddler food and healthy snacks. Having grown to approx. £15m annual revenues, John sold Little

Dish in 2017.

John now actively manages an investor/Non-Executive Director portfolio contributing value-added

business growth advice, guidance and mentoring to business owners. John is a business thought

leader and delivers keynotes on a range of entrepreneurial, management & motivational leadership

topics: http://www.johnstapleton.eu/keynote-topics. John is resident business advisor to Bord Bia’s

entrepreneurial start-up programme in Ireland and is investor director of Mission Ventures, a

progressive business accelerator designed to build challenger brands in the UK, principally in

partnership through Corporate Venture Accelerators (http://www.missionventures.co.uk).