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The group achieved an adjusted EBIT of £8.9 million (€104m), £4.3 million (€5m) above the 2015 figure.

Gareth Davies, head of coffee excellence, UCC Coffee UK & Ireland, said: “In an increasingly competitive market, consistency is more important than ever.

Lheureux joined the Science Museum in 2011 as event operations manager before taking on the role of group events operations manager in 2015.

As part of a ten year partnership, an investment of £550,000 will be used to extend the main hospital building.

John Adamson, director of Ramside Estates, said: “This is a huge coup for us.

At the start of the day, guests were given a pair of glasses to replicate visual impairments common among elderly people and welcomed into a drab dining room.

HCA chair Phil Shelley, and Food for Life director James Cashmore, signed the agreement as part of the HCA’s commitment to working with other trade organisations.

The fresh meals and good food served at the hospital’s Ingleton Fall Restaurant and Café Qualita coffee shop upgraded the award to Silver, having been accredited Bronze last year.

The awards, named after founder Trevor Annon, were held at Down Royal Racecourse in Lisburn and attended by 200 employees, suppliers and business partners.

Derick Martin joins Harbour & Jones with over 30 years experience in the hospitality industry, including as founding director of Gino D’Acampo My Pasta Bar, CEO and co-founder of Innovate Servi