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Caterforce Award Euro-Cops Spotlight Pallet Wrap ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE SUGGESTS that police forces across mainland Europe are robustly enforcing laws on cargo security, according to Golden Valley Pallet Wrap Specialists. Its evidence reveals that hauliers transporting palletised loads are being required to demonstrate that the pallet wrap used to secure each pallet has been applied to measurable parameters. If pallet wrap is found to be insufficiently sturdy to ensure safe transport of a load, the haulier is being forced to wrap the pallet again before continuing the journey. Martyn Sumner, managing director, Golden Valley Pallet Wrap Specialists, said: “We understand that Belgian and German police forces are taking a particularly aggressive stance on the issue. It seems that it is more important than ever to ensure that palletised loads are securely wrapped with a material that will provide load stability and protection from the warehouse or manufacturing plant right through to the end-user destination.” Golden Valley, which is the exclusive UK distributor of the Carbon and Alloy ranges of pallet wrap, contends that the wrong type of pallet wrap and inappropriate or poorly maintained pallet wrapping machinery are the things most likely to cause a load to fail to meet EU standards.
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THREE OCEANS WAS named ‘Best Overall New Supplier’ by Caterforce in its first year as the company’s new fish partner. The Caterforce Group, a Buying & Marketing Consortium working with seven of the UK’s leading independent foodservice wholesalers, made the award at its Suppliers Conference 2013 where Three Oceans was also nominated as ‘Best Overall Own Label Supplier’. Geoffrey
Druce, director, Three Oceans, said: “A very proud moment for Three Oceans, which really demonstrated that our ethos in being the unrivalled ‘best in class fish’ provider, added to our passion and energy to nurture and grow sales with our customers will win through - just keep focused, committed and above all deliver quality, integrity and sustained relationships then success will follow.” Established in 1991, Caterforce Wholesalers has a combined turnover in excess of £300 million and specialises in the delivery of frozen, chilled and grocery products to independent foodservice operators, including pubs, restaurants & hotels, throughout the UK. It provides a ‘one-stop shop’ by offering an extensive range of branded frozen, chilled and grocery products, together with a comprehensive range of own label products, marketed under the Caterforce brand.
Snowbird In Management Buyout SNOWBIRD FOODS, MANUFACTURER of fully cooked and frozen sausages, meatballs and other comminuted meat products, has been bought by its own management – to the cheers of employees at its Middlesex base. The company, which has had four owners in six years, has been bought by directors Philip Paul (right) and Albert McGovern (left). They will now run the company as joint managing directors along with sales director Roy Anderson.
Paul, who joined the business from school in 1981, believes the change will mean faster decision making and a more settled management style. McGovern, former finance director, joined Snowbird in 1995 after working in finance with the world’s largest oil company and in the food industry. “Foodservice buying groups, frozen food wholesalers and ready meals manufacturers like our ideas, our quality and our convenience and we will be able to give them more of that in the immediate future,” said sales director Roy Anderson, who joined Snowbird in 2000. Investment is planned in the short term to enable Snowbird Foods to capitalise on more profitable ideas currently on the drawing board. For more information, contact Roy Anderson, Snowbird Foods Ltd, Wharf Road, Ponders End, Enfield, Middlesex EN3 4TD. Tel: 020 8805 9222. Fax: 020 8804 9303. www.snowbirdfoods.co.uk