The new partnership aims to deliver category insight, product and service innovation alongside the consolidation of multiple product categories.
Oliver Cock, managing director, Foodbuy, part of Compass Group & Ireland said: “We’re excited to announce we’ve signed a five year strategic partnership with Bunzl, the major non-food product and service provider.
“We’ll be working with Bunzl to implement a number of major change programmes in the non-food category throughout the year whilst introducing some exciting benefits at site-level. We have started to build a strong working relationship with Bunzl already and we look forward to working with them over the coming years.”
Matt Johnson, managing director for Bunzl Catering & Hospitality Division in the UK, added: “Through 6 months of the evaluation process we have established an extremely strong working relationship with Compass at all levels of their organisation. We are delighted with this new partnership and look forward to supplying product innovation and a first class service to Compass as we do for our existing customers.”