Food service company Kitchen Range Foods has made a couple of additions to its team. RACHEL JORDAN has joined as a senior national account manager from the IGD, the information, research and education body for the food and grocery industry, where she was a senior business analyst. She has also worked for seafood company Uniq, and Telfer Foods. STELLA LAUGHTON, the new senior product manager, previously worked for Premier Foods as group brand manager. She will report to head of marketing David Young.
The Novotel Bangkok on Siam Square, has announced several appointments. SHIZUKA IIDA has moved from the Novotel Vientiane in Laos, to take up the position of assistant director of sales. CHULAWADEE MANPUEN has joined the hotel as assistant public relations manager, having held the same title at the Windsor Suites hotel, Bangkok. RANGSAN THAPBHANOND, the new senior laundry manager at the Novotel Bangkok, previously spent nine years as laundry manager at the Novotel Bangna, Bangkok hotel. PONGCHIRA WONGPAITOON has been promoted to assistant sales manager, having worked for three years as a sales executive at the hotel.
HUGH MACKIE has been appointed operations manager of London restaurant Just Saint James. He was previously operations manager at French castle estate Villandry, in the Loire Valley.
UB Foodservice has made two changes in its marketing department. JENNIFER KIRKWOOD has joined as marketing controller from HJ Heinz, where she spent 10 years, most recently as general manager, category development European food service. ABI GRAY has been promoted to sales controller. She was an account team leader at the company she joined as a graduate in 1995.
BRONWEN O'KANE has left her job as a consultant at recruitment company Berkeley Scott in London to become a director of Leeds-based company The Recruitment Room, which focuses on permanent recruitment in the hospitality sector.
JASON SCRIMSHAW is the new head chef of the White Swan pub and dining room, formerly the Mucky Duck, in central London, due to open at the start of next month. The wine list comprises 150 wines and estimated average spend per head for three courses is £22. Scrimshaw has previously worked for both Bibendum and Chez Bruce, both based in London, and will serve a menu described as the best of British cuisine.
Conference company Dolce International has named PETER NORMAN senior vice-president for acquisitions and development Europe, and ROBERT SEALS general manager of Dolce Norton Manor in Hampshire. Norman has joined from Le Méridien, where he was senior vice-president development Europe, Africa and the Indian Ocean. He has also held senior roles with Whitbread, Scots Hotels and Choice Hotels. Seals, former vice-president of learning at the company, started his career with Dolce in 1996 as corporate director of learning and human resources.
GESA ROHWEDDER has joined the five-star InterContinental London on Hyde Park Corner as hotel manager. She was previously at the InterContinental K”ln in Germany and oversaw the opening of the property in May.
BARBARA PANG has joined Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts as vice-president of sales and marketing, based at the Island Shangri-La hotel in Hong Kong. She has held senior marketing positions at five-star hotels in the city, and has also worked for the Kowloon Shangri-La and Island Shangri-La hotels. BRENDAN INNS is now vice-president of corporate marketing at Shangri-La. He was previously director of corporate marketing. He has also worked for the Hyatt hotel group in a number of senior marketing roles. Also based in the company's corporate head office in Hong Kong is MELANIE FOO-TIPLADY, who has been appointed director of global business development. She was group marketing manager at the Grand Hyatt Hong Kong hotel.
Budget hotel group Travel Inn, owned by Whitbread, has appointed MIKE TYE to its group executive. Tye has been with Whitbread for 16 years and was previously managing director of Costa Coffee. He became managing director of the brand this summer following the departure of the then Travel Inn managing director Carl Leaver, who joined De Vere Group as chief executive.
RAINER TENIUS has been appointed general manager of the Celik Palas Bursa hotel, Turkey. The hotel is part of a new resort project by Swissôtel Hotels & Resorts, which will open at the start of 2005 under the name of Swissôtel the Celik Palas, Bursa. German-born Tenius has worked for the company for the past 10 years and was most recently hotel manager of the Swissôtel Zurich.
Recruitment company Berkeley Scott has made two key appointments at its newly formed hospitality and leisure division, which is an amalgamation of its existing pubs, restaurants, catering and leisure market teams. HOLLY ADDISON will head up the new division as operations director, joining from Restaurant People. Addison was previously with Berkeley Scott for more than six years and is credited with helping to develop the group's move into non-hotel recruitment markets. JO FOWLE has also made a move from Restaurant People to become general manager at the new division's London office. The division also has an office in Godalming, Surrey, under the management of Sally Wigg.
Mistaken identity: Sorry folks... the gremlins struck last week and we managed to transpose the pictures of IAN STONE, new managing director of Apetito Foodservice, and JOHN DYSON, who has teamed up with the British Hospitality Association as an adviser. Apologies to both gents.
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Watson is new president of NIHF
The Northern Ireland Hotels Federation (NIHF) has chosen Rodney Watson to be its new president. Watson is managing director of the Killyhevlin hotel, Enniskillen, Fermanagh, and was voted into his new role at the NIHF's annual general meeting, which took place in the Ramada Hotel Belfast as part of the Hospitality Exchange conference and exhibition earlier this month.
Watson is a past chairman of Fermanagh Lakeland Tourism, the regional tourism organisation for the South-west, and also served as vice-president of the NIHF for the past two years. The NIHF is a not-for-profit organisation representing the hospitality sector in Northern Ireland.