Our elevator pitch is ‘hand-held food for people on the move’. Basically, if you can eat it with your hands, we can make it

Gareth Chambers studied television production, but found himself happiest helping his mother in the family sandwich business. Now he employs more than 300 people making food for customers in Ireland and Britain

Gareth Chambers Pic: Darren Kid/Presseye

CV: Gareth Chambers

Role: chief executive, Around Noon

Age:33

Lives: Newry, Co Down

Hobbies: travel, running and going to Manchester United matches

Favourite film: Goodfellas

Just finished reading: The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande

A couple of days before I’m due to meet Gareth Chambers, sandwiches – or more precisely, the things we put into them – are becoming an unlikely political hot potato in pre-Brexit Britain.

The director of the British Sandwich ...