Consumer >> CEO Interviews >> January 3, 2000

Ian Eldridge – Pizzaexpress Plc (piz.l)

IAN ELDRIDGE is Chief Executive Officer of PizzaExpress Plc. He has worked for PizzaExpress for 15 years and has been the director responsible for all company-owned restaurants for the last nine years. He previously worked for Grand Metropolitan, Trust House Forte and First Leisure and has BSc (Hons) in Hotel and Catering Administration. He is also Savoy trained and is a Trust House Forte leisure graduate. He was promoted to his current position in December 1997. Profile
TWST: Could you begin by giving us a brief overview of PizzaExpress?

Then tell us what you think about your business and company today?

Mr. Eldridge: In 1965, the same year Winston Churchill