The Monday Interview: Sheila Fitzpatrick, founder, Alternative Bread Company

Queen Elizabeth II meeting Elizabeth Fitzpatrick at the ABC stall in the English Market in Cork on her visit to Ireland in 2011.

From Richard Branson to small business network Plato to the traders of the English Market in Cork city centre, owner of the Alternative Bread Company (ABC), Sheila Fitzpatrick says she has taken much business inspiration from many avenues in the past 20 years.

After working in the burgeoning food and drink sector of London, Ms Fitzpatrick relocated to Cork in 1996 with her five children aged from five to 17, and spotted a gap in the market for artisan bread.