Plant for Peace (Commercial)

Robert Smith
Advisor to the Chairman

Robert Smith

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.