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Sunday Times Top 100 Best Places to Work 2009

Our long standing client Lexington Catering has just been won a place on the Sunday Times 100 Best Small Companies to Work For 2009. Here are just some of the people initiatives that helped them to achieve that:

"London-based Lexington Catering is keen to serve up an appetising place to work for its 189 employees.

Everyone works a 40 hour week, and job sharing and sabbaticals are available. Employees rate the company 18th for Wellbeing overall (earning a 76% positive score) saying they are happy with the balance of work and home life (81%), aren't exhausted at the end of each day (62%), and, although kitchens may appear pressured places, the workforce doesn't suffer from work related stress (84%).

Continue reading 3 March 2009

learnpurple Bristol Launches

We are all very excited here in the purple palace in London, because now there is a purple palace in Bristol too! The New Year sees the new office opening, led by our very own Jessica Cain.

learnpurple has built up a much admired brand and an enviable reputation for helping our clients achieve real results through their people (even if we do say so ourselves!). And now the new Bristol based office will cover Somerset, Avon, South Gloucestershire and Wales; so many more companies can become great places to workâ€¦

Continue reading 15 January 2009

Talent toolbox goes Stateside

Talent toolbox, learnpurpleâ€™s award winning online performance and talent management tool continues to wow users and has now gone stateside.

Already being used in six countries across Europe, talent toolbox is now helping one of the most celebrated restaurant organisations in the world; Danny Meyerâ€™s Union Square Hospitality Group.

Continue reading 5 October 2008

Strategy Clinic - Christmas Bonus

"Having had a better year than usual, I'm trying to decide how best to reward my employees this Christmas. I have 200 staff and was thinking of giving everyone a Â£50 store voucher. Is this money well spent?"

Continue reading 21 September 2008

Pay is only part of the Puzzle

With regard to "Pay properly to attract young people" (Letters, 28 August, page 14), of course we need to pay decent money, though that's only part of the story. Hospitality businesses also need to become great places to work. When young people are job-searching these days, they Google prospective companies and they ask their friends about them via social networking sites.

Continue reading 19 September 2008

Roofer-turned-chef Reaches New Heights

Rob Hartwell, 24, junior sous chef at Peach Pubs' the Fishes in North Hinksey near Oxford has won the 2008 Acorn Scholarship.

Continue reading 16 July 2008

Food Service Caterer Award

Kate Martin

As one third of the Brookwood Partnership, managing partner Kate Martin, along with Graham Sibthorp and Sue Parfett, heads a business with a turnover in 2007 upwards of Â£11m that caterers at more than 50 independent schools within London and the South-east.

Continue reading 13 July 2008

Breakfast of Champions

For some its eggs and bacon, but for us itâ€™s food for thought... We recently held our second talent toolbox breakfast club event in May, and Jon Reed provides the highlights...

Continue reading 12 July 2008