Mr John Giles | Chair, Food, Drink & Agricultural Group of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, & Divisional Director, Promar International
Promar International

John Giles is a Divisional Director of Promar International – the agri food value chain consulting subsidiary of Genus plc. Educated at University College Swansea in the early 1980s, he has been with the company for over 18 years.  In this time, he has carried out supply chain analyses, business planning, evaluation and feasibility assignments across a wide range of areas within the agri food sector. 

John Giles has also worked extensively throughout the UK (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Jersey, the Isle of Man, Shetland etc) and on assignments in some 40 other countries, including all other Continental EU markets, Russia, the FSU and Eastern Europe, Brazil, China, India, New Zealand, Australia, the Middle East, Chile, the Caribbean, East and South Africa, Mexico, the US and Canada.

This includes work in the dairy, meat, fish, horticultural, cereals, soyabean, rice and the processed foods and drink sectors - including work on snack foods, biscuits, honey, fruit juices, confectionery & chewing gum, cheese, ethnic foods, canned foods, convenience foods, sandwiches etc

John Giles has been a Visiting Fellow at the School of Agriculture, Food and the Environment at Cranfield University, and is also Chairman of the Chartered Institute of Marketing’s Food, Drink and Agriculture Group.  He has been on the Editorial Board of the agri sector publication, Farm Business, and is a Member of the Institute of Agricultural Management – he is a current member of the National Council.  He has recently been made a Fellow of the Royal Agricultural Society of England.