Sponsors' Profiles - CIS Excellence Awards

Sponsors' Profiles

The Healthier Scotland Award

sponsored by the healthyliving award, in association with Healthier Scotland

The Sign of Healthier Food

The healthyliving award, in association with Healthier Scotland, is delighted to be sponsoring the Healthier Scotland Award. Working alongside the Scottish Government’s Take Life On campaign, the healthyliving award rewards caterers who support healthier eating by making it easier for their customers to eat healthily.

‘By sponsoring this year’s Healthier Scotland Award we are able to further support caterers of all shapes and sizes to make positive changes and to reward excellence in the provision of healthier food choices,’ says Claire Brown, Project Manager of the healthyliving award.

www.healthylivingaward.co.uk

The Innovation in Training Award

co-sponsored by the Institute of Hospitality and Xpress Recruitment

The Professional Body for the Hospitality Industry

The Institute of Hospitality’s (IoH) prime objectives are the advancement of vocational education and the promotion of best practice in hospitality management. These aims are achieved through the provision of a range of qualifications and awards, an effective information service, and the accreditation-management of hotel-school programmes. Members can be found at every level around the world, from students and future managers, to emerging talent and industry leaders. Through Hospitality magazine and the Institute’s official website, members can take advantage of the IoH’s continued professional development at every level of hospitality management.

The Institute of Hospitality Scotland was launched in 2009 to assist in delivering wider professional opportunities for its members, and to contribute to the development of hospitality and tourism policies and strategies within Scotland.

‘In the last 12 months, our voluntary committee has organised over 15 successful events north of the Border, and the Institute of Hospitality Scotland is becoming the must-have membership for career-focused professionals,’ says Chief Executive, Philippe Rossiter.

www.instituteofhospitality.org

Setting a Benchmark for Hospitality Recruitment

Xpress Recruitment is Scotland’s leading independent hospitality and retail recruiter, offering comprehensive, honest and cost-effective recruitment services to clients across the Scottish market. With their unique field-based approach to recruitment, Xpress deliver fully screened and interviewed candidate shortlists on an individual project or long-term partnership basis

‘Our key role as a supplier to the hospitality and retail industries is to provide clients with well-trained and skilled candidates for their businesses,’ says Rob Moore, Director. ‘We can only do this if they have been effectively coached and developed in their career to date.

‘The Innovation in Training Award promotes best practice and sets new benchmarks for the hospitality industry, and this can help us to achieve positive and long-term service standards and financial growth. ‘We are delighted to be sponsoring the Innovation in Training Award for the fourth consecutive year.’

www.xpressrecruitment.com

The Pub-Restaurant Excellence Award

sponsored by Food Options

Supplying Quality Chilled & Frozen Products for Foodservice Companies

Formed in 2002, Food Options has grown rapidly to establish itself as one of the key players in the supply of speciality chilled and frozen foods to the foodservice sector.

With nearly 1,000 customers throughout Scotland & NE England, the company’s expansion is based on exclusive and innovative sourcing from more than 160 factories across Europe and the UK.

Food Options’ range of over 1,500 products – sourced direct from the manufacturers - includes game, seafood, ice cream and sorbets, French and Italian cheeses, olives and pesto, oils and vinegars, antipasti, cooking wines, pastry shells, canapés and Spanish and Italian charcuterie.

In 2007, Managing Director Tony Reilly oversaw the construction of a new £1.5m 16,000 sq ft facility in Livingston, offering a 24-hour lead time, complete temperature integrity and full product traceability through their CMi Gold Standard accreditation. Plans are already underway for a new extension in the summer of 2010.

www.foodoptions.co.uk

The Contract Catering Chef of the Year Award

co-sponsored by Blue Arrow Catering & Caterer.com

Serving Scottish Contract Caterers

Blue Arrow Catering provides premium recruitment services to hotels, restaurants, contract caterers and events businesses throughout Scotland and the UK. With a strong team for all sectors of the industry, Blue Arrow are committed to supporting the catering and hospitality sector: 'Contract catering chefs are dedicated professionals who believe wholeheartedly in providing the best possible service to the industry, and that is what is most important to our clients in Scotland,' says Managing Director, Nick Gourlie. 'It is for this reason that we chose once again to co-sponsor the Contract Catering Chef of the Year Award, which reflects the work ethic of the chefs who serve thousands of meals a day to customers with high standards and even higher expectations.'

www.bluearrowcatering.co.uk

The Place for Jobs in Hospitality

Caterer.com is the UK's leading recruitment website for jobs in hospitality. With more hospitality jobs than all other recruitment sites combined and a monthly Scottish jobseeker audience of 45,000, it is the preferred method of recruitment for hotels, restaurants, bars and contract catering.

As well as working closely with Springboard UK, Scottish Tourism Forum

and HIT Scotland, Caterer.com is recognised by the British

Hospitality Association (BHA) as a partner and exclusive patron supplier.

‘Caterer.com, through our dedicated Scottish office, is committed to working closely to support the Scottish hospitality industry, and is proud to be the principal sponsor of the CIS Excellence Awards 2010,’ says David Shirra, Sales Manager, Scotland & N. Ireland.