ANNE PIERCE, the CEO of The Springboard Charity, was last night [23rd May] revealed as the winner of the Footprint ‘Special Achievement’ award 2013, for her contribution to the social sustainability of the industry, at a ceremony held at RIBA, London. Other winners of the night [...]
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) [...]
UNILEVER FOOD Solutions (UFS) has pledged to donate 150,ooo meals to children in Indonesia. The target has been set as part of the company’s support for the World Food Programme, and its aim to end child hunger in Indonesia. Throughout April to June [...]
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 [...]
RESTAURANTS WASTE almost five times more food than the average UK household. While hundreds of establishments have taken steps to reduce food waste, the industry average still stands at almost half a kilo of waste per diner. The Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA) said such waste [...]
Unilever Food Solutions ran a competition for chefs to win a business development session with Chris Barber, a food and business development expert and former chef to HRH Prince of Wales. The Old Thatch in Killeagh, Cork, was one of the winners. DECLAN NOONAN took over [...]
THE GROCERY sector has delivered on its commitments to cut waste up and down the supply chain. New figures released by WRAP show that supply chain waste has been cut by 8.8% well ahead of the three-year target of 5%. [...]
UNILEVER FOOD Solutions (UFS) has launched an industry-first health and nutrition training programme to help lecturers raise awareness and improve catering students knowledge of nutrition in the workplace. ?? The interactive programme called Understanding Nutrition in Commercial Kitchens will help chefs better understand [...]
ONE YEAR on, Tracey Rogers, managing director of Unilever Food Solutions comments exclusively to FoodserviceFootprint.com about the impact of United Against Waste. A year ago we called upon the industry to unite to tackle the issue of avoidable food waste, as part of our United [...]
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By footprint on October 25, 2012
Published in: Comment, Foodservice News, Health and Vitality, News Analysis and tagged Allegra Strategies, Foodservice Footprint, Health & Vitality Honours, Mc Donald's, Phil Hooper, Sodexo, Tesco, Tracey Rogers, Unilever Food Solutions.
AS The Nation gets chubbier, more and more companies are pledging to provide facts about how (un)healthy their food is. But do diners need or want them? Albert Einstein once said that the devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. [...]