Success stories

Brakes and Sysco Speciality Group to become first wholesale partners of #FairKitchens in the UK
Brakes and Sysco Speciality Group are today announcing a partnership with #FairKitchens, a global movement fighting for a healthier and more sustainable hospitality industry. The movement, co-founded by Unilever Food Solutions in 2018 to improve the wellbeing of hospitality and…

Interview with James Smith, managing director of Loddington Farm & Owlet Fruit Juice
James Smith bought the Owlet Fruit Juice business as the perfect complement to his fifth-generation, family-run fruit farm at Loddington, where he has implemented a regenerative agriculture strategy. Now managing director of Owlet, which produces a range of single-variety English…

Whitbread’s Water Journey: An Interview with Yvonne Mason, Environment Manager and Ross Greenhalgh, Energy Manager
Whitbread is the UK’s largest operator of hotels and restaurants. The FTSE100 company’s well-loved brands include Premier Inn, Hub by Premier Inn, Zip, Beefeater, Bar and Block, Table Table, Cookhouse and Pub, Brewers Fayre and Thyme. Yvonne, tell us about…

It’s Time to Bring Water to the Board Table
by Anastasia Sousanoglou, Water Strategy Manager at Waterscan “If you want to make progress on global challenges, start with water”, advised the World Economic Forum (WEF) while setting its agenda for this year’s Davos summit. ‘Hang on!’, we hear you…

Toque d’Or® 2021 Competition Finalists Revealed
Nestlé Professional is proud to announce the finalists of this year’s Toque d’Or® Competition. After a fantastic Heat, which saw a massive 112 Back and Front of House students, apprentices and young professionals from across the country battle it out…

Over 107 million pints of water saved by drinking at green pubs
As pubs re-open after lockdown, consumers can now seek out public houses serving sustainable Green Pints in their area With 15 million pints set to have been drunk during the opening week, Brits could be drinking a sustainable pint and…

AB InBev 100+ Accelerator partners with The Coca-Cola Company, Colgate-Palmolive and Unilever for Sustainable Startup Innovation
The Coca-Cola Company, Colgate-Palmolive Company and Unilever have joined the Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev) 100+ Accelerator to fund and pilot sustainable innovation in supply chains. Launched in 2018, the 100+ Accelerator is a global incubator program that works to solve…

Supply Matters
A debate about the future of hospitality supply in the post-Covid era by David Read of Prestige Purchasing This week we have published a White Paper called SUPPLY MATTERS. We want it to signpost a radical new agenda for the…

Brakes launches Help For Hospitality
Brakes, the UK’s leading foodservice wholesaler, has launched a wide-reaching new campaign designed to help get hospitality customers back on their feet, once able to reopen after the current nationwide lockdown. The campaign is the most extensive Brakes has ever…

Molson Coors becomes first major UK brewer to make all products from 100% green electricity
Molson Coors Beverage Company, maker of Carling, the UK’s number one lager, as well as the iconic Coors, Doom Bar and Aspall Cyder, has become the first major brewer in the UK to produce all of its beers and ciders…
