2nd Mar 2012 - 00:00
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The newly launched Foodservice Order of Merit Awards, organised by CESA (the Catering Equipment Suppliers Association), were presented at a special industry breakfast at Hotelympia on Monday, February 27.
The awards, designed to honour foodservice professionals who have made major contributions to the hospitality sector, went to 25 industry leaders. "These are people who have helped advance the hospitality sector and who have often given their time freely," said Mick Shaddock, chair of CESA. "At CESA we feel it's time the industry recognised them. "We have been developing the Order of Merit concept for more than 12 months and, being the UK's most important catering exhibition, Hotelympia was the obvious place to hold the ceremony. "The recipients are drawn from across the industry – operators and suppliers, caterers and manufacturers – but all of them, crucially, movers and shakers." The recipients of the 2012 CESA Foodservice Order of Merit Awards are: Geoff Booth, director of the School of Hospitality, Westminster Kingsway College Andrew Green, chairman of the Craft Guild of Chefs Professor David Foskett, head of school, University of West London Stephen Moss CBE, chairman, Springboard Iain Munro, chairman, Catering Equipment Distributors Association Torbjörn Peltonen, president, BFS, Sweden David Bentley, chairman, FCSI UK & Ireland Matt Baker, chairman, Arena Thierry Brener, president, SYNEG Jennipher Marshall-Jenkinson, chairman, Microwave Association Andrea Sasso, CECED Italia William Baxter CBE, chairman, Hospitality Action Ruston Toms, chairman, Association of Catering Excellence Julie Morrissey, Catering Equipment Association Geoffrey Osborne BEM, Worshipful Company of Cooks Julie Barker, managing director, The University Caterers Organisation The Earl of Bradford, chairman, Restaurant Association Sir David Michels, president, Institute of Hospitality Linda Mitchell, chairman, LACA Karen Oliver, chair, National Association of Care Catering Steve Follett, president, NAFEM Ugur Atalay, president, TUSID Janice Gillan, national chairman, Hospital Caterers Association Jonathan Doughty, chairman, FCSI Europe, Africa, Middle East Christiane Wodtke, president, HKI