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Video: Footprint Awards 2012

Video: Footprint Awards 2012

Watch this amazing film to get the vibe of the wonderful evening celebrating outstanding corporate achievement and responsible business in the foodservice industry. Congratulations to all the Winners and Runners Up.   Here they are again:   SUSTAINABLE USE OF NATURAL RESOURCES AWARD 2012 Winner: 3663 Runner Up: The Caterer’s Linen Supply (London Linen Group) [...]

Stretching the limits of sustainability

FOOD BUSINESSES must be careful not to see target-setting as a competition.                           One of the most difficult tasks facing sustainability managers is how to set targets. “The first time you set them you’re never quite sure,” admits Inder Poonaji, the head of environmental [...]

Footprint Awards 2013 shortlist announced

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 [...]

Prize display for champions of healthy living

ACCORDING TO dubious research cooked up for a marketing campaign a few years ago the third Monday of January deserves the title of “Blue Monday”. That’s when people are at their most miserable, thanks to a combination of post-Christmas blues, cold dark nights and the arrival of unpaid credit card bills. This year it fell on [...]

Video – Inaugural Footprint Health & Vitality Honours

Video – Inaugural Footprint Health & Vitality Honours

LEADING PERSONALITIES from the foodservice and hospitality industries, including the likes of Raymond Blanc OBE, LACA’s Anne Bull and Westminster Kingsway’s Gary Hunter, teamed-up with health and nutrition expert Dr Susan Jebb and Sodexo Health Ambassador Matt Dawson MBE to recognise healthy best practice within foodservice. The high profile judging panel this afternoon rewarded those [...]

Companies rewarded in first ever Health & Vitality Honours

LEADING PERSONALITIES from the foodservice and hospitality industries, including the likes of Raymond Blanc OBE, LACA’s Anne Bull and Westminster Kingsway’s Gary Hunter, teamed-up with health and nutrition expert Dr Susan Jebb and Sodexo Health Ambassador Matt Dawson MBE to recognise healthy best practice within foodservice. The high profile judging panel this afternoon rewarded those [...]

Work experience for sectors future stars

STUDENTS ARE being given the chance to gain invaluable work experience thanks to a new initiative launched to celebrate 25 years of the Nestlé Toque d’Or competition.                       The Nestlé Toque d’Or “Take One” initiative is designed to encourage entry into the workplace for the [...]

Prize for this year’s Toque d’Or announced

THE FIRST ever winner of Nestlé Toque d’Or, Anton Mosimann, is offering the winners of the landmark 25th anniversary competition the unique opportunity to spend three weeks working under his tutelage.                     “When I won this award, I was extremely honoured; it really motivated me to [...]

Nestlé coffee award

NESTLE’S WORK to help cocoa and coffee farmers adapt to environmental challenges has been recognised as an example of best practice by the United Nations’ Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).                   The company is helping farmers preserve crops vulnerable to the effects of climate change by [...]

Nestlé’s palm oil turnaround

NESTLE HAS come a long way since that viral in 2010 – the one with the bored office worker who bites off a finger of a Kit Kat that turns out to be a bloody orang-utan finger. Campaigners at Greenpeace had found that the company was sourcing from Sinar Mas, an Indonesian supplier that it [...]