Lexington Catering appoints new sales and marketing director

Scanlon joins Lexington from Restaurant Associates, the fine dining arm of Compass Group, where he was responsible for business development at both a regional and national level. He has also worked at Tricon Foodservice Consultants, working as a consultant. The new sales and marketing director has replaced Julia Edmonds who was recently promoted to managing director after three years as sales and marketing director. With his role at Lexington, Scanlon will be focusing on developing new business opportunities and will continue to promote Lexington's brand presence and prominence within contract catering in London and the South East. Commenting on his appointment Scanlon said: "I am delighted to be joining Lexington at such an exciting time in the company's development. Lexington's approach to providing great food, the industry's best people and an innovative and exciting range of foodservice solutions to our clients really does set us apart in today's market. "Julia's accomplishments in this role will be a very hard act to follow but I am confident of our ambitious future growth plans and I cannot wait to celebrate further success as part of such a great team."