A successful working partnership

with Orian Solutions

Orian Solutions is a facilities management company and they offer bespoke school meal catering services for both primary and secondary schools across the north west and north east of England.

We are proud to be Orian Solution’s chosen single supplier for all food produce to their school customer base in Cumbria and the North East. We supply and deliver a wide range of meat, frozen and ambient products alongside fresh fruit and vegetables to their school clients on a daily basis. We have worked together for over six years now and the relationship is going from strength-to-strength.

Connect & Inspire

Caterforce Conference 2022

The Caterforce conference is held every two years at the prestigious hotel, Celtic Manor, in south Wales. The eight members of the buying group come together to connect with a wide range of suppliers from across the country. The conference gives everyone the chance to catch up with friends, new and old, to learn about the future direction of the buying group and its members.

This year’s conference was held on Wednesday 16th November.

There were several themes covered in the conference agenda:

1. Sustainability and regionality

2. Growth, investment and business […]

Taking mental health seriously

We’ve been developing some of people leaders and helping them in their personal and role development. Some of them attended Mental Health Awareness seminars in March and we’re currently running a second cohort.

The sessions are lead by Chris Graham of Carlisle Eden Mind to help start conversations about mental health and how to help those around us. For many years there has been a stigma around mental health issues and the purpose of the seminars are to start open, honest conversations.

An introduction to mental health can help people gain a better insight into a range of common mental health problems. It will also dispel the myths […]

Get money back for disposing of your waste oil.

We’re pleased to bring a brand new service to you …

We’ve joined up with Arrow Oils to provide you with a quick, easy and free service to help you dispose of your waste cooking oil and get cash back too.

You will receive £5 credit for every 20 litre drum of oil you recycle with Arrow Oils.

It’s quick and easy to dispose of your waste oil:

Step 1: Scan the QR code or click here and complete the form to arrange collection of your used oil.

Don’t […]

Our experts are here to help

We are re-branding our telesales department as sales support to reflect the much wider role played by the team in our business today.

Pictured left to right are: Rebecca Sheckley, Nicola Barnes, Karen Graham, Tracey Woollerton, Joanne Hastings, Lesley Flannery and Liz Dunn. Daisy Bowman is currently on  maternity leave.

Back in the 1970’s and in the absence of email, online ordering, answer machines or even fax machines, placing orders live over the phone was the only way of doing so and the phrase telesales was quite apt.

These days we still take many customer orders over the […]

Efficient logistics team serves up superb service

Pictured left to right are: Chris Dicker, Wayne Sutherland, Jonny Forsyth and Sean Harrison.

We recently promoted several of our logistics colleagues to create a new, efficient logistics management team.

Jonny Forsyth, Operations Director, now has a team made up of three supervisors and managers.

Wayne Sutherland has been with us for 17 years and is now a Logistics Supervisor alongside Sean Harrison, our new Transport Supervisor. Sean has worked for us for over 27 years and is extremely experienced in working with our fleet and drivers.

Chris Dicker is now serving as a Fleet Service Manager. […]