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Clive Ramsay is eating up the competition

Saturday interview: Clive Ramsay, the food retailer, has come a long way from the days of selling potatoes out of a van.

Not much more than 25 years ago, Clive Ramsay was trundling around country roads in a battered old van buying potatoes from the farm door and selling them on to shops and chippies. He was making 50p a sack, and thought he was doing rather well.