Catering Companies

The latest news and updates on catering companies, from the business journalists at Catering Today. We bring you the latest on what’s happening in the restaurants, bars and catering industry, with exclusive stories, analysis, best practice and industry comment.

Mar- 2023 -

2 March

Good Q4 for contract catering but sales still behind 2019 levels

Contract catering sales were 27% higher between October and December 2022 compared with 2021, according to data from CGA and Bidfood. Caterers’ sales in the private sector were up by 32% year-on-year as more people switched back from home-based working to offices. However, Q4 in 2021 was impacted by growing…
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Feb- 2023 -

28 February

Houston and Hawkes appoints seven new members to operational team

Houston and Hawkes, an independent catering service, has made seven senior appointments to its operational team. Emilie Whiteoak, previously with BaxterStorey, has joined the business as account director and will oversee several of the group’s key accounts. Marinela Golfita, who has joined from Thomas Franks London, and Steven Shaw have…
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28 February

Restaurant Associates to cater for Unity Place

Restaurant Associates has recently won the contract to cater for all food and beverage outlets at Unity Place, a state-of-the-art co-working location which is set to open in Milton Keynes in the early summer of 2023. Unity Place will also be the new headquarters for Santander UK, as well as…
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15 February

Sodexo secures £16.5m contract with TriRx Services

Sodexo has secured a new £16.5m five-year contract for its catering and FM services with TriRx Pharmaceuticals Services in Speke, Liverpool. The news comes as TriRx acquired the Speke site in February 2022, where the group had been catering and providing FM services since 2012. Sodexo’s new contract with the…
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9 February

Sodexo appoints UK&I MD for energy and resources

Sodexo has announced the appointment of Ed Morrow as the new managing director of its energy and resources business in the UK and Ireland, following the promotion of Cunera Vlaar to lead Sodexo Netherlands. Morrow joined Sodexo in 2007 as finance director for energy and resources UK&I. Since then, he…
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2 February

BM secures £20m of new contracts

Catering company BM has announced that it has secured more than £20m worth of new contracts in the last six months. The contracts include Lazard, a financial advisory and asset management firm; Moore Kingston Smith, a leading accountancy firm and Murphy, a leading global, multi-disciplined engineering and construction company. The…
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Jan- 2023 -

23 January

Sodexo reduces GHG emissions by 33%

Sodexo UK&I has reduced its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 33% since its baseline year of 2017, which equates to over 300,000 tCO2e. According to the group, it has achieved this reduction by implementing a continuous improvement strategy, which included the design and introduction of a carbon trajectory tool to…
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17 January

Q Catering awarded ICM contract

Kent-based wholesale distributor Q Catering has announced that it has been awarded a sole supply agreement with Independent Catering Management (ICM). ICM has been around for over 26 years and provides meals to over 90 schools in Kent, Surrey and Sussex cooking thousands of meals a day. Furthermore Q has…
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16 January

The front of the Q: Q Catering’s plans to hit £20m turnover by 2023

Q catering appointed three new members of staff from Kent Frozen Foods towards the end of 2022; Tony Blake as commercial director, Caroline Martin as sales director and Nick Jennings as financial director. How pleased are you with your recent appointments? These were people that I worked with at KFF.…
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10 January

Sodexo secures £10m IFM contract with banking firm

Sodexo’s corporate services division has secured a £10m five-year contract to provide integrated facilities management (IFM) services for a global banking firm’s London offices. As part of the £2m a year contract, Sodexo will provide the banking firm with a range of services including catering, hospitality, cleaning, reception and guest…
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