Amanda Ursell

  • FootprintComment: A wake up call for traceability and accountability in the supply chain

    THE RUMPUS generated by the ‘horse-burger’ debate is understandable says Amanda Ursell. People have a right to expect to have ingredients in their food, which are listed on the label. When this doesn’t happen, and the ‘extra’ ingredient happens to… Read More

  • Eat yourself healthy with Aramark

    ARAMARK WILL be helping its customers stick with their New Year’s resolutions with a new health campaign launched January 8th, 2013.   Entitled “Eat Yourself Healthy”, the campaign includes special offers and meal deals to make it easy for people… Read More

  • Companies Rewarded for Healthy Best Practices In First-Ever Foodservice ‘Health & Vitality Honours’

    A NUMBER of organisations sufficiently advanced in the health, nutrition and vitality arena will be rewarded for their efforts with recognition in the first-ever “Health & Vitality Honours” – a brand new scheme specially created to establish a platform for… Read More

  • Health & Vitality Roll of Honour

    ORGANISATIONS FROM across the foodservice supply chain form The Roll of Honour for the inaugural Health & Vitality Honours scheme announced today.                 Caterers from the private and public sectors, manufacturers and suppliers… Read More

  • Hippocrates: Organisations are what they eat

    AS WE enter the last week for submissions of the inaugural Health & Vitality Honours 2013, Amanda Ursell enlightens us about the importance of creating a platform for excellence.    Napoleon, said to be one of the greatest military commanders… Read More

  • FootprintFeature: Salt, Sugar, Sweat

    WITH MASSIVE sponsorship from fast food companies and a veil of secrecy covering alternative catering, London 2012 was quickly titled ‘the junk food Olympics’. But was that an accurate moniker, and could it actually have a positive outcome?   Long… Read More

  • Healthy workforce = Healthy business

    COMPANIES ARE beginning to understand and embrace the extent to which a healthy and content workforce can help to build a healthy, profitable business.                 As a result, health, wellbeing and nutrition programmes… Read More

  • NEW ‘Honours’ Reward Healthy Best Practice Within Foodservice

    First ever ‘Health & Vitality Honours’ launched – a brand new scheme specially created to establish a platform for foodservice businesses to showcase healthy best practice.                         Open for… Read More

  • In the mood for change? Footprint Forum: Mood Food online report

    The March Footprint Forum in association with Partners In Purchasing tackled the role of food in staff performance and wellbeing. And while the idea of ‘mood food’ is far from mainstream, more and more big businesses are looking at the… Read More

  • View Footprint Forum: Mood Food film

    Watch the film about Footprint Forum: Mood Food. Speakers included Matt Dawson MBE courtesy of Sodexo, Oxford University’s Prof John Stein, Amanda Ursell courtesy of CH&Co, Vielife’s Jessica Colling, Felicity Yardy of Innocent, Lexington’s David Steel and Sue Gatenby of… Read More