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My Duvet Flip by Jack Parsons

My Duvet Flip ft. Duncan Everett, Group CEO, Noble Foods

My Duvet Flip by Jack Parsons

Jack Parsons

Business, Careers

4.25 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Send us a Text Message.Welcome to My Duvet Flip, where we get real with everyday people who are way more inspiring than those out-of-reach celebrities. Each episode, I chat with industry leaders and find out what makes them flip their duvet and face the day. Today, I had the pleasure of speaking with Duncan Everett, Group CEO, Noble Foods. It's going to be a super exciting convo full of all kinds of learning and insight.But seriously, hit subscribe to stay in the loop about new epis...

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0:00.0

The Hi, everyone. Hi everyone, my name is Duncan Everett and I am the chief executive of Noble Foods and today is my duvet.

0:47.3

So just to give you a little bit of background on noble foods, so we're a big agri-food business, broadly split into two. So we're

0:57.5

a significant supplier of animal feed to the agricultural industry and we're the largest producer,

1:02.9

a packer of eggs in the UK. Duncan, welcome. And I do like my eggs in the morning.

1:10.3

That's good. They're the best food for breakfast. They are. Absolutely. And I do like my eggs in the morning. That's good, that's best food for breakfast.

1:11.6

They are.

1:12.6

Absolutely.

1:13.6

And thank you for giving your time, energy for today to come in so kind and give your wisdom and your knowledge.

1:21.6

No, great pleasure to be here.

1:23.6

Brilliant. So we always start with this question because I think this question is really important

1:28.8

to some of the audience. And we've got a mixed audience, but a lot of our audience will be looking

1:34.1

for work. They may be at home. They won't know what to do and they're trying to figure it out. And

1:39.8

they're thinking about what careers do I get into? So my first question is, what was your first job?

1:46.0

What did that job teach you?

1:48.0

And what do you want to pass on to this level?

1:50.0

Yeah.

1:51.0

Well, actually my first first job was washing up in a pub.

1:54.0

And I think that taught me that work ethic is really, really, really important.

1:59.0

So if you're going to do something, do it well. Whatever it is,

2:01.5

do it really, really, really well and get better and better and better. And I suspect the landlady

2:07.0

of that pub would tell you to start with, I was not the best washer offer on the planet. But I think I got

2:11.3

a little better. So then in terms of real jobs, so I was lucky enough to go to university, got a degree, didn't

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