BetterCare chooses Aramark
Aramark has won a new contract to supply catering services to BetterCare. The Belfast-based company owns 26 care homes, including 24 homes in mainland UK - from Berwick to Plymouth - and two in Northern Ireland.
The three-year contract is worth £4m in annual turnover. It sees Aramark provide catering services at all 26 locations. Aramark already has more than 80 care contracts in the UK and Ireland.
Parliamentary job for Sodexho
Sodexho Scotland has won the contract to provide catering services at the new headquarters of the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh. The parliament is due to move to the new building in Holyrood next year. Sodexho's deal is for three years, with an option to extend for a further two, and will turn over £1m a year. It will employ 57 catering staff. Sodexho is already providing the catering for the Scottish Parliament at its current temporary home at the Assembly Hall on the Mound.
Samsung takes more Pride
Guildford-based Pride Catering has started a rolling contract at the headquarters of Samsung Electronics on the outskirts of Chertsey, Surrey. The deal, which will turn over £250,000 a year, sees Pride providing breakfast, a deli-bar service, lunch, snacks, vending and hospitality services for 300 employees plus visitors. Five Pride staff operate the new unit. The contract brings Pride's portfolio up to 23 contracts and increases its annual turnover to £3m.
Frozen meals from Apetito
Apetito has been awarded a contract with Wolverhampton City Council to supply home-delivered frozen meals to 1,200 customers in the city. The contract, for three years with an optional two-year extension, is worth £263,333 a year in turnover.
Healthy eating comes to Camden
Scolarest has started a three-year school meal contract with the London Borough of Camden. The Compass division is serving more than 10,000 meals a day at 55 schools in the borough. The contract is worth £3m in annual turnover. Scolarest will use its Nurture Our World (NOW) healthy eating concept at 41 primary schools. NOW uses a team of dinosaur characters to teach children about healthy eating, and environmental issues.