Each week Swindon Business News gives a prominent member of the area’s business community the last word on its weekly e-bulletin.
This week Chris Smith, managing director of Marshfield Bakery, answers our 10 questions. 
What was the LAST:
Film you watched? Eddie the Eagle. I remember the original!
Book you read? I always have a novel on the go, but my Dad buys them and passes them on to me, so I take it from the top of a pile.
Music you bought/downloaded? Hotel California.
Concert or play you went to? Some singy, musicy thing at The Bristol Hippodrome. My daughters bought the tickets.
Sporting event you attended? Bath Races
Holiday you went on? My son-in-law to-be’s stag weekend in Hamburg. Was it a holiday?
Restaurant you ate in? The Clifton Lido
Thing that annoyed you? The state of my desk
Thing that made you laugh out loud? My audience’s response to my story about how it took me six months of interviews to find an accountant with a personality.
Piece of good advice you were given? There’s ALWAYS an angle.
Marshfield Bakery managing director Chris Smith is the current Institute of Directors’ (IoD) South West Small Company Director of the year and a former IoD South West Director of the year. He was recently named as the new chairman of the IoD Gloucestershire branch. Since he became managing director at family-owned Marshfield Bakery four years ago, sales have risen to nearly £3m. He has also championed apprenticeships through various schemes and supports a nationwide industry initiative to help unemployed young adults into work.
