Sponsors

To find out more about sponsorship opportunities, please contact us on 020 8652 3814 or via email.

We would like to thank all our sponsors who are involved with the inaugural Caterersearch.com Web Awards 2008.

Nestlé Professional
official headline sponsor

As the world's foremost food and beverage company working in close partnership with the dynamic UK hospitality industry - Nestlé Professional is delighted to be the official headline sponsor of the inaugural Caterersearch.com Web Awards 2008. 

Nestlé Professional has recently launched its new, innovative website, improving the design and content, to increase end user interaction in this dynamic industry. The new website showcases its complete range of hot beverages, food and confectionery brands - all available in a series of formats to meet individual need and deliver real business solutions.  Its products are driven by insight into customer and end consumer needs. 

As a company, it knows only too well, the importance and value in harnessing the power of the internet and is excited to be part of this opportunity to work as an inspiring growth partner with Caterersearch.com to recognise the best websites in the industry. 

 

The Hub
sponsoring Website of the Year

As the fastest growing full service agency within the foodservice industry and developers of some of the sectors most sophisticated sites, The Hub is delighted to be sponsoring the 'Website of the Year' category at the inaugural Caterersearch.com Web Awards.

The Hub constantly advocates a joined up approach to its clients' communications strategy that is now growing to embrace digital technologies, with particular emphasis placed on websites as the central hub of all online and digital activity.

The best websites however, are now growing to be more than just a 'shop-window', and into a key resource that must be leveraged to ensure your business delivers the right message to the right people in an interactive manner. Successful websites have succeeded in turning themselves into an informative and educational resource that is visited and consulted time and again.

A website is now recognised as an ever evolving and powerful marketing tool. The design should be simple and clear, while not losing site of the overall aim - to provide the user with access to the information they need, in an effective and functional format.

The Hub would like to wish each of the entrants the best of luck, and congratulate them in being short-listed. Each has demonstrated an awareness of the importance of their on-line presence - an essential and strategic investment.

 

Livebookings
sponsoring Restaurant Website - group and Restaurant Website - independent

Livebookings is a global marketing and real-time restaurant booking service. With millions of reservations made since its conception in 2001, Livebookings has successfully welcomed 6,000 restaurants into the network.

By selecting one of the six integrated reservations management solutions available, Livebookings' restaurant members are able to receive real-time internet bookings from their own website and more than 500 independent booking partners - including Time Out, lastminute.com, Ticketmaster and Evening Standard - with a collective potential market in excess of 200 million diners.

Operating on a 24/7 real-time system, Livebookings provides a reliable confirmation service and accurate table occupancy information to prospective diners around the clock.

Livebookings is proud to sponsor the Best Restaurant Website - Independent and Chain - Awards. The web and online reservations have quickly become the most powerful marketing tools available to restaurant operators today. Working with restaurants and their online marketing activities on a daily basis, we fully appreciate the amount of work that is invested to create and maintain a successful website and would like to recognise this superb achievement.

For more information on Livebookings, please contact our Marketing and Sales Team:
Email: info@livebookings.co.uk
Tel: 020 7934 9275

 

jellybean creative

sponsoring Digital Marketing Campaign

Jellybean Creative Solutions is a full service agency helping major brands integrate their "Out of Home" marketing. Innovators in foodservice communications for over 21 years, Jellybean leads the way in digital marketing with its dedicated online division - Jellybean Digital.

From website design and build to HTML broadcasts, from optimization to creative online advertising we ensure that this critical element of the marketing mix works harder and smarter. Our online campaigns deliver tangible and measurable results in the b2b environment of foodservice and are trusted and endorsed by some of the biggest names in the industry.

Jellybean is a market specialist offering a full range of communication services all driven by strategic thinking, high impact design and execution and all underpinned by sound market insight.

Hot off the press - Recent market research commissioned by Jellybean with Reed Business Insight has identified and confirmed how, where, when and what caterers want from foodservice suppliers in their communication mix and customer interface.

If you want to find out more and ensure your communications, including online, are working effectively to build your brand out of home - talk to us.

To find out more please contact Susan Bolam or Jayne Brassey on 01372 227 950, email us at info@jellybeancreative.co.uk or visit www.jellybeancreative.co.uk

 

Filmbank
Bringing Hollywood to your hotel room

sponsoring Hotel Website - Group

Filmbank is the leading provider of Hollywood movies and TV programming to hotels worldwide. Representing both Hollywood and independent film studios, movies available range from the newest releases through to a large selection of older, classic titles, offering a diverse range of cutting edge cinema through hotels to the consumer.

Filmbank work directly with technology providers to enable hotel guests to enjoy the latest films long before DVD release or being available on Pay TV. With an exclusive 'early window' advantage, hotel guests have the opportunity to see new films soon after their cinema release (10-12 weeks later). This means that the hotel room can be the first place guests can see the film if they have missed it in the cinema, enabling hotels to have their very own première.

With over 22 years experience in the hotel sector, Filmbank are able to work with both hotels and technology providers in order to put together in-room promotions which will appeal to both business travelers as well as weekend and holiday guests.

In 2008 Filmbank will also be able to provide movies in HD, with the eagerly anticipated new Batman film from Warner Bros, The Dark Knight, being the first title available to hotels in this format.

Watch the Filmbank showreel here 

 

Reed Business Insight
Sponsoring Equipment Supplier
Reed Business Insight is delighted to be sponsoring the Equipment Supplier Website category for the Caterersearch.com Web Awards.  At Reed Business Insight we know that your website is a crucial 'touch point' with your customer base and is often the first point of contact with new and potential customers. If users can't find what they are looking for or if they can't use the site with ease then they will simply go elsewhere. Reed Business Insight offers specialist, objective and cost effective Website Development research.  We can help you better understand who is using your site and what their requirements are, how your site performs on key metrics such as usability and navigability, how to create 'stickability', repeat usage and much more. 

If you would like to take advantage of research based decision making in order to grow your business then call the Reed Business Insight team today on: 020 8652 8058 or email: rbinsight@rbi.co.uk

Caterersearch.com/jobs
Sponsoring Recruitment Website
Caterersearch.com/jobs is a powerful online recruitment tool dedicated to the hospitality industry.

Qualified and experienced jobseekers visit our jobsite every day to search our database of hundreds of hospitality and catering jobs, upload their CV, set up email job alerts, subscribe to RSS feeds and apply online. So whatever the skill or job role your organisation needs to source, the chances are you'll find the best match candidate with Caterersearch.com/jobs.
We work closely with large and small employers, recruitment consultancies and recruitment advertising agencies to deliver an exclusive service to the hospitality industry.

Caterersearch.com/jobs has an ever increasing number of direct jobs from named employers, recruiters currently include the likes of The Dorchester, Carluccios and Gordon Ramsay; a testament to the quality of our jobseekers all using Caterersearch.com/jobs to find their next job.

Visit our online recruiter zone to find out more or contact Lorna Holden on 020 8652 8063.

 

Caterer and Hotelkeeper
sponsoring the Food and Drink supplier website

Caterer and Hotelkeeper is the hospitality industry's magazine of choice targeted at senior and operational managers who manage budgets, processes, or people across four of the main market sectors; hotels, restaurants, pubs / bars and contract catering. It is the only fully paid for magazine in the market.

Reaching over 17,600 hospitality professionals on a weekly basis since 1878, Caterer and Hotelkeeper is still the quickest and easiest route to market, upholding its reputation as an influential and powerful publication due to its hard hitting approach to news stories, its content driven features and its information and advice section. To subscribe click here or to find out more about Caterer and Hotelkeeper click here