Robert’s career is primarily in farming and growing vegetables. He owns 1000 hectares of vegetable crops, conventionally and organically grown for major supermarkets including, Waitrose, M&S and Tesco. He has been involved in many residential and commercial developments as well as leisure and property based ventures on his farm. In 1996 Robert lead a team of investors to buy a packing business and subsequently acquired various other businesses to create what is now know as Produce World, a leading provider of fresh produce, which specialises in grading, washing and packaging fresh produce for major supermarkets with a turnover of £200m.