BRITAIN’S ANAEROBIC digestion capacity is growing and yet many foodservice companies are still sending food waste to landfill. Footprint looks at the gaps in the UK system. There are now 106 anaerobic digestion (AD) plants in the UK, not counting those used in [...]
THE NOMINEES for the 2013 Footprint Awards – the industry’s only awards scheme encouraging sustainability and responsible business throughout the supply chain – have today been announced following a record number of entries. “Record number of entries demonstrate sustainability is at the [...]
IN EUROPE, genetically modified crops have remained in labs while the rest of the world plants more and more. Does the technology need a champion? It seemed apt that the Footprint Forum to discuss the sensitive issue of genetically modified (GM) crops took place in [...]
THE MOST powerful person in UK hospitality has claimed that the sector doesn’t get enough recognition and must do more to support British farmers. Alastair Storey, chairman and chief executive of Westbury Street Holdings (WSH), the holding company of leading independent hospitality and retail companies such [...]
GENETICALLY MODIFIED foods have very little chance of being accepted in Europe unless celebrity chefs and retailers back them. With UK retailers having put expansive GM-free policies in place – both for food and livestock feed – and misinformation in the mainstream [...]
RETAILERS ARE benefitting from a passion for local food, but some caterers are eyeing the strong and growing market too, Footprint talks to BaxterStorey’s Ian Platt. The government’s green food report took a few by surprise with a recommendation for [...]
THE GOOD and the great of the foodservice industry gathered yesterday for Footprint Forum hosted by the US Department of Agriculture, opened with great aplomb by Deputy Chief of Mission Barbara Stephenson at the US Embassy in London’s Grosvenor Square. Footprint’s objective [...]
Andy Milner is the new Procurement and Supply Chain Director at Westbury Street Holdings, parent company of BaxterStorey, Holroyd Howe, Caterlink, Benugo and Portico.
A GROUNDBREAKING study reveals the huge amounts of energy wasted by contract caterers but there are massive savings to be made by companies willing to invest. It’s seven o’clock in the morning and staff are preparing the kitchens for the hungry breakfast crowd. The grill goes [...]
IT’S SEVEN oclock in the morning and staff are preparing the kitchens for the hungry breakfast crowd. The grill goes on ready for a hard mornings work and wont be shut down until well past midday. Ovens, hobs, dishwashers, fridges and extractors will all be used and will cost the client hundreds or even thousands [...]
