A round-up of the latest news from the contract catering industry...
BaxterSmith scoops £1m-worth of new contracts
BaxterSmith has won four new contracts, each with an annual turnover of about £250,000. Tomorrow it starts a three-year contract to provide director’s dining and client hospitality for an unnamed London investment bank, while in July it starts two five-year contracts. One is to feed more than 500 scientists and staff at two Institute for Animal Health offices at Compton in Berkshire and Pirbright in Surrey. The second is to feed 450 staff at London-based publisher Random House. From September it will cater for 400 employees of RAC subsidiary Lex Auto Logistics in Chorley, Lancashire, for a period yet to be agreed. The contractor has boosted business by 50% in the past year to reach an annual turnover of £24m.
Momentum wins €40m-a-year extension to EuroStar contract
Eurostar has granted a second renewal to the catering contract held since 2000 by Momentum (a joint venture between Cremonini Spa of Italy and Compass Group). Thetwo-year extension will turn over £26.7m a year and runs until May 2007. Momentum has more than 700 staff at bases in London, Paris and Brussels who cater to some seven million EuroStar customers a year.
Bartlett Mitchell wins seventh contract this year
Bartlett Mitchell has started two London contracts, both for two years, bringing its tally of new wins this year to seven. It is catering for 650 staff at EMC2, an information management company in Brentford, in a contract with an annual turnover of £400,000. The second contract, turning over £350,000 a year, is to provide catering and hospitality services for up to 500 people a day for trade union Unison in Euston Road.
Charlton House retains two contracts
Charlton House has retained its contract with the Civil Aviation Authority for a further five years. The new contract, which starts on 1 July, will turn over £500,000 a year and involves catering for 1,100 staff across two sites at Gatwick Airport and in London. It follows the retention of a contract at Chiltern College, a training college with day care and a primary school, in Caversham near Reading. This one-year, £225,000-turnover deal is to cater for training staff, 35 students and up to 170 babies and young children.
Eurest to cater for Scottish collagen maker
Compass Group division Eurest has won a three-year contract with annual turnover of £333,000 to provide a full catering and hospitality service to collagen manufacturer Devro (Scotland). It involves providing breakfast, lunch and dinner to 500 staff at the group’s two Lanarkshire sites.
Sodexho takes golf contract from Compass
Corporate hospitality specialist Sodexho Prestige provided the hospitality and catering at this month’s Celtic Manor Wales Open golf tournament near Newport in Gwent. The £200,000-turnover contract has been held by Compass since the event began in 2000. Over the four days, 140 Sodexho staff catered for some 40,000 people.
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