Contractors

The deal with the independent, day, boarding, nursery and preparatory school for girls, is worth £750,000.

The catering company, which celebrated its 170th anniversary last year, welcomed 150 of its employees to the award show which followed a conference on food and drink trends for 2018, led by journal

The 12,000-acre estate in West Sussex, is famous for its motorsport and horse-racing events.

Europe will be consolidated from four operating units to two. Richard Sykes, currently regional chief executive officer of Western Europe, will become regional chief for Northern Europe.

The larger contract win is with Ricardo plc, a publicly listed global engineering and strategic, technical and environmental consultancy and manufacturing business.

The distributor, whose biggest client is its parent company, Compass, will assume responsibility for providing the central resource for food procurement across the NHS as part of the deal.

The decision from two of the UK’s leading trade associations to poll resources has been made to create a “strong single voice” for the sector and create a ‘powerful platform for change’, according

The group has predicted that its effective tax rate will reduce to 24%  from 26.5% while its cash tax rate is projected to be between 19% and 22% in the year to the end of September 2018.

The additions include a crispy fried seitan, roasted tomato and sriracha mayo wrap and a roasted cauliflower and nutmeg soup with garlic croutons.

Prestfelde School, an independent preparatory boarding school in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, and Highclare School in Birmingham, have both furthered their contracts with the firm by five years.