Catering Companies

The Catering Companies section on Catering Today focuses on the UK’s contract catering and event catering sectors, highlighting the businesses, partnerships, and innovations driving industry growth. It covers corporate, education, healthcare, and leisure catering, with news on contracts, sustainability, workforce management, and operational efficiency. Through company profiles, market analysis, and expert commentary, Catering Today provides professionals with insight into the strategies and challenges shaping modern catering services across the UK.

Mar- 2023 -

22 March

Just Perfect Catering partners with Michelin-star chef

Just Perfect Catering, the Wales and the South West-based independent workplace caterer, has teamed up with Michelin-star chef James Sommerin to create a bespoke dining experience featuring quality local and Welsh produce. The catering company said that the two have teamed up because they both “share a passion for Welsh…
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17 March

Searcys appointed caterers of the Guards Polo Club this spring

Searcys and its partner Lush by Tom Kerridge have been appointed the official caterers for the Guards Polo Club from Spring 2023. As caterers, the company will provide day-to-day management to the Clubhouse Restaurant, with Lush by Tom Kerridge delivering hospitality services for the club’s upcoming events. Located in Windsor…
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16 March

Lexington Catering announces partnership with Pact Coffee

Lexington catering has announced a new partnership with Pact Coffee aiming to promote gender equality. The project will enable offices across the Lexington business to contribute directly to the development of coffee growing communities across nine countries through Pact’s direct-trade supply chain model. Pact and Lexington’s collaboration will focus primarily…
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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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