Hotelympia celebrates winners’ contributions to the industry
Hotelympia 2012 saw the launch of the Foodservice Order of Merit Awards. Organised by CESA, the Catering Equipment Suppliers Association, the awards are designed to honour foodservice professionals who have all made major contributions to the industry.
The recipients of the 2012 CESA Foodservice Order of Merit were announced at a special industry breakfast at Hotelympia on Monday 27th February. “These are people who have helped advance the hospitality market and who have often given their time freely. At CESA we feel it’s time the industry recognised them,” says Mick Shaddock, chair of CESA. “We have been developing the Order of Merit concept for over 12 months and, being the UK’s most important catering exhibition, Hotelympia is the obvious place to hold the ceremony.
“The recipients of the awards are drawn from across the industry – operators and suppliers, caterers and manufacturers – but all of them, crucially, movers and shakers.”
The Recipients of the CESA Foodservice Order of Merit Awards, 2012:
Geoff Booth, Director, School of Hospitality, Westminster Kingsway College
Andrew Green, Chairman, Craft Guild of Chefs
David Foskett, Professor, University of West London
Stephen Moss CBE, Chairman, Springboard
Iain Munro, Chairman, Catering Equipment Distributors Association
Torbjörn Peltonen, President, BFS, Sweden
David Bentley, Chairman, FCSI UK & Ireland
Matt Baker, Chairman, Arena
Thierry Brener, President, SYNEG
Jennipher Marshall-Jenkinson, Chairman, Microwave Association
Andrea Sasso, CECED Italia
William Baxter CBE, Chairman, Hospitality Action
Ruston Toms, Chairman, Association of Catering Excellence
Julie Morrissey, Catering Equipment Association
Geoffrey Osborne BEM, Worshipful Company of Cooks
Julie Barker, Managing Director, The University Caterers Organisation
The Earl of Bradford, Chairman, Restaurant Association
Sir David Michels, President, Institute of Hospitality
Linda Mitchell, Chairman, LACA
Karen Oliver, Chair, National Association of Care Catering
Steve Follett, President, NAFEM
Ugur Atalay, President, TUSID
Janice Gillan, National Chairman, Hospital Caterers Association
Jonathan Doughty, Chairman, FCSI Europe, Africa, Middle East
Christiane Wodtke, President, HKI
The Catering Equipment Suppliers Association (CESA) is the authoritative voice of the catering equipment industry, representing over 160 companies who supply, service and maintain all types of commercial catering equipment – from utensils to full kitchen schemes. For more information on CESA visit www.cesa.org.uk
Congratulations to all the worthy recipients of the CESA Foodservice order of merit awards.