4C Associates is a leading European procurement and supply chain consultancy, who work collaboratively with forward-thinking clients to deliver real business value across a wide range of transformation and cost optimisation service offerings. With a proven track record across multiple hospitality sectors including QSR, casual dining, foodservice, leisure, events and accommodation, 4C Associates are practitioners, not just advisors, who deliver results with their clients, every step of the way.

At Bidfood, we’re focused on going the extra mile for our customers. Being the best is a key part of our ethos, and our focus is on delivering the best customer experience, making life easier and helping customers to grow. We’re serious about service excellence and getting it right first time, and we’ve invested in building an infrastructure that keeps us close to our customers.

In our range of over 13,000 products, which includes the best of both own brand and leading foodservice brands, customers will find everything they need, from fresh ambient, frozen and chilled food, soft drinks, wines, beers and spirits to cutlery, crockery and cooking utensils, cleaning products and catering equipment.

In addition to great products, we also help customers stay ahead of the curve with insights on key food trends, creative recipes and menu ideas through our team of development chefs, nutritional and product advice, guidance on food standards and legislation, and inspiring marketing materials. We also work closely with customers to address the key corporate responsibility and sustainability challenges facing foodservice.

The Blue Badge Access Awards is a global initiative that brings together two major design competitions - the Bespoke Access Awards and the Blue Badge Style Awards - with the support of charity, Leonard Cheshire.

We are united by our mission to celebrate thoughtful and stylish inclusive design across the world.

The Blue Badge Access Awards (BBAAs) are the only dedicated global award scheme promoting stylish accessibility across hotels, restaurants and other venues. Subject to the COVID 19 pandemic, the Awards will go ahead in 2021/22

Anyone can nominate a venue, person or organisation for an award (venues/organisations may nominate themselves). Nominations are encouraged from anywhere in the world. Entry forms from info@bluebadgeaccessawards.com

Brakes UK, the leading UK foodservice wholesaler has been named the Grocer Gold’s National Wholesaler of the Year, as well as the Quality Food and Drink Awards Foodservice Operator of the Year for the second year running. We’ve been serving chefs across the industry for over 50 years, providing expert knowledge and specialist solutions for every sector. Our award-winning range of 10,000 products is available with fast and flexible service, across a nationwide network. Our innovative, insight-driven approach means we can tailor our products to customers’ needs and have developed our offering with chefs and customers front of mind, ensuring we deliver on quality and taste at all times.

Britvic is the largest supplier of branded still soft drinks in Great Britain and the number two supplier of branded carbonated soft drinks. The company combines its own leading brand portfolio, including Robinsons, J2O, Drench, Purdey’s, Fruit Shoot and R White’s with PepsiCo brands such as Pepsi Max, Tango, 7UP and Lipton Ice Tea, which Britvic produces and sells in Great Britain and Ireland under exclusive PepsiCo agreements.

Operating in both the ‘Take Home’ and ‘On-Premise’ channels, Britvic offers its customers a portfolio of soft drinks to meet every consumer occasion and has a strong track record of delivering successful innovation.

Creating exciting, memorable food and service experiences is what CH&CO is all about.

Great food and hospitality bring people together whatever the location, whatever the occasion. Our expertise and enthusiasm span the diverse hospitality sector and our talented teams of chefs and service professionals operate across the UK and Ireland in workplaces, schools, venues, visitor attractions, healthcare, livery halls and events.

People are always at the heart of hospitality and CH&CO. We’re very proud to sponsor The Cateys’ Special Award, recognising people who make outstanding contributions to the hospitality industry.

Food has the power to make people feel good, and that goes beyond what’s on the plate. Great food experiences lift the spirit, bring people together and fuel emotional positivity and physical wellbeing. This is our motivation across our areas of expertise, which includes event catering, workplace cafés and restaurants, corporate fine dining and hospitality, visitor attraction catering, pupil and staff feeding at state and independent schools, university cafés and restaurants, hospital staff and visitor restaurants, hospices, Livery Hall catering, venue sales, event management and production, and reception and concierge services. We are also committed to operating in a responsible and sustainable way and we proudly hold the top-level three-star Food Made Good rating from the Sustainable Restaurant Association.

CH&CO holds a Royal Warrant for catering services to HM The Queen.

We are a team of 150 hospitality procurement specialists operating predominantly in the UK and across Europe, who work in partnership with 800+ businesses and 200 suppliers in the UK alone. We negotiate on behalf of our clients to find them the best possible proposals and solutions available to them and within their own objectives. Our team is made up of ex operators, chefs, analysts and buyers.

Miele Professional provides the catering and hospitality sector with unrivalled quality when it comes to dishwashing and laundry. Its commitment to the environment means that products are highly efficient whilst being economical to run, helping businesses to keep their running costs low, a vital consideration for many businesses. Miele’s equipment can also guarantee a hygienic clean every time with the right temperature settings built in and intuitive user controls.

Ten Kites was founded by Stuart Wilson in 2013 and became a part of the Nutritics offering in 2021. The digital menu-publishing platform supports some of the world’s largest catering and hospitality operators.

Ten Kites enables food operators to inform consumers about the food they serve by publishing menus to all touch points - including websites and digital displays. Accurate, real-time allergen information ensures operators are fully compliant with latest legislation, including the option for calorie labelling.

Fully integrated with recipe management and POS systems, the end-to-end menu solution saves operators significant time and money, and provides consumers with accurate and engaging branded experiences across all devices.

At Matthew Clark, we know it’s been a very tough period for the Hospitality industry; as a supplier that only services the On-Trade, we’ve also shared your challenges. We remained open throughout the pandemic and we’re delighted to be here, ready once again to help you welcome guests and customers. We all know our clients have a choice which is why we all go the extra mile in everything that we do.

We have extended our drinks portfolio to meet market demands and feature over 7,000 products from popular brands to niche producers. This includes over 1,300 wines and Champagnes, an extensive range of spirits, soft drinks and our specialist Boutique beers collection. Matthew Clark’s Wine List continues to evolve and the Sommelier Wine Awards judges voted us Classic Regions and New World Merchant of the Year in 2019 and 2020 respectively.

We are also committed to our “added value” offer, delivering support via market insight, merchandising, marketing tools, training and category management, all of which give our customers tools to drive revenue, standards, guest satisfaction and to save costs. For instance, we offer a dedicated and high quality Design Studio for bespoke point of sale and a wine listing service.

At Matthew Clark, our ethos is a commitment to deliver whilst ensuring our customers are at the heart of our thinking.

It’s not just our depth of on-trade experience, it’s applying it to all that we do. That’s why with Matthew Clark, the experience matters.

For more information visit www.matthewclark.co.uk or follow us @matthewclarkltd

Sky Business is the business-to-business division of Sky, providing a wide variety of commercial premises across the UK and the Republic of Ireland unrivalled entertainment from unmissable live sport and breaking news, to laugh-out-loud comedy, documentaries and films.

Sky brings hotel guests the programmes they know and love. From big dramas on Sky Atlantic and entertainment for all the family on Sky One to blockbuster hits on Sky Cinema and unmissable live sport across dedicated Sky Sports channels. There’s something to suit every guest.

Sky Business offers hoteliers a range of flexible products and solutions to entertain guests. Hoteliers can choose to provide stunning HD quality to guests using either Sky In-Room with a Sky Box in every room, or Sky Select using the Sky Bright Box in the comms room to deliver HD content to every hotel room.