C&C Catering Equipment Ltd has won three awards at this year’s catering industry suppliers showcase event, including the highly prestigious CEDA Grand Prix award.
The awards came courtesy of the completion of C&C’s largest project to date, the £2.6m foodservice scheme for Japanese Bank Nomura’s new headquarters building in the City of London.
As well as the Grand Prix award, the Nomura project also won the “Cost Sector Larger Project” title together with C&C’s first ever CEDA/FCSI “Special Award for Project Management”. The catering scheme within Nomura’s ambitious Project Shinkyo scheme (Japanese for ‘New Home’) was completed within just ten months of tendering in partnership with design consultants Humble Arnold Associates.
Nomura’s management also recognised C&C’s Project Manager Mark Roxburgh’s dedication and achievement in delivering the project successfully by awarding him a Shinkyo sumo for outstanding customer service. Paul Gardener, Head of Foodservice Facilities at Nomura commented “It was quite an achievement to help us achieve our goal of getting everything done inside the year. Nothing was too much trouble for Mark and the C&C team.”
Further plaudits came from Toby Cordery, Senior Project Manager for Nomura who said “Given the extremely fast programme, we had to work with a partner we could trust, who were pro-active and were capable of delivering the highest quality.” Andrew Humble, Director, Humble Arnold Associates also added “There are very few UK companies are capable of delivering a catering scheme of this size and complexity on such a tight timescale. C&C is one of them.”
Peter Kitchin, Managing Director of C&C commented “this project has shown what we can achieve and we’re delighted with the performance of our team on such a highly challenging but rewarding task.”
The project included Benugo’s branded cafe bars, pantries, kitchens, main staff dining areas for 4,300 staff, executive dining and a roof garden spread across seven different floors of the Nomura building.
Hospitality and Catering News would like to offer our own congratulations to C&C especially as the competition projects were all of a very high quality, Well Done !