5 December 2012
Industry Focuses on Sustainability, Employment & Innovation This year’s conference, held at Whittlebury Hall near Towcester, had a theme of ‘A Platform for Growth.’ As well as enjoying a high quality speaker platform, several delegates took advantage of local amenities including golf at Whittlebury Hall itself and rallying at nearby Silverstone. The conference was rounded off at the Gala Dinner in the Brooklands Suite on the Friday night.
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20 November 2012
Stand 356, Hospitality Show, January 21 – 23, 2013, NEC Birmingham At the Hospitality Show 2013 CESA is celebrating its 75th year of informing, involving and influencing policy relative to the catering industry. Although CESA (Catering Equipment Suppliers Association) itself was formed in 1996, it evolved from the earlier CEMA (Catering Equipment Manufacturers Association), set up in 1938.
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2 November 2012
CFSP (Certified Food Service Professional), the industry specific professional qualification for the UK Food Service industry has just seen a record number of 43 people attend its latest seminar. This will bring the total of those, in the UK, who are CFSP qualified to over 200. In 2009, CESA (Catering Equipment Suppliers Association) introduced the CFSP qualification to the foodservice market. The programme had its genesis within the North American foodservice industry before being adapted for the UK. It is...
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3 October 2012
The CESA Conference 2012, in association with the BHA and the FCSI November 15th – 16th, Whittlebury Hall, Towcester, Northants. The theme of this year’s CESA conference is A Platform for Growth. The economic situation is a curate’s egg for many caterers and suppliers: good in parts. On the one hand, for many businesses the recession, though painful, has made less impact than expected, with the London Games playing a part. On the other, public sector cuts and slow growth...
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24 September 2012
Following the meeting between CESA, the Catering Equipment Suppliers Association, and the Government Procurement Service (GPS), it has been agreed that its tendering process, which has been a contentious issue for many equipment companies, will be re-examined for future tenders. However, this will not happen until next year. In the meantime, GPS has offered to help catering equipment companies who were unsuccessful in tendering for a place on the framework agreement this year on a ‘one to one basis,’ to...
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