A young vintage
13 September 2012
At just 27, marketing graduate Edward Winterschladen has enjoyed a meteoric rise to the top purchasing job at Thistle Hotels. He talks to Geraint John about his role in buying everything from chardonnay to call centres
There are two things that immediately strike you about Edward Winterschladen. The first is that he is very young (27) to be running a purchasing department. The second is that his surname is deceptive. “It catches a few people out,” he says in an unmistakeably North Yorkshire accent. “They expect a German on the other end of the phone.”
In fact, his family does...