London Gatwick Airport: Newrest wins major airline catering contract with BA

Toulouse, September 12th, 2018 – Newrest, a French specialist in out-of-home food services serving 1.1 million meals a day globally in 49-countries, has been awarded a long-term contract to provide airline catering services to British Airways from Gatwick Airport as from 2020.

This new 10-year catering contract significantly strengthens Newrest’s presence in the United Kingdom, being today present in 9 stations such as London Heathrow, London City, Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Exeter, Southampton and Bristol. Newrest will serve approximately 15 long-haul and 55 short-haul flights per day from Gatwick airport for BA. This new award demonstrates our ability to design and deliver innovative solutions for our customers that has underpinned our development and growth. Our focus remains on total quality of our product and service levels worldwide. Newrest Group is currently investing in a brand new, state of the art catering facility at Gatwick Airport, with modern technological advancements and incorporating a total commitment to strongly enhance food & beverage quality for BA’s customers at Gatwick Airport. Olivier Sadran & Jonathan Stent-Torriani, co-CEOs of Newrest Group said: “Our UK team has proven results in delivering smooth and seamless catering transitions and operational excellence. We are committed to providing BA’s customers innovative, top quality products and services from our new Gatwick facility.”

About Newrest

Founded in 1996 under the name Catair, the Newrest Group, chaired by Olivier Sadran and Jonathan Stent-Torriani, is currently the only catering company operating in all catering and related service sectors: inflight catering, buy-on-board, onboard duty-free, rail catering, airport and highway retail concessions, group catering, remote site management and support services.

With 30,800 employees in 49 countries, the Newrest Group, whose turnover totaled €1.8 billion in 2017, is also the leading independent airline catering company in the world.

At the end of the 2017 financial year (September), 88.6% of the Group’s capital was management-owned (310 employees). Newrest’s minority shareholders are: Naxicap Partners (5.2%), Ardian (formerly Axa PE) (2.8%), Duti Participations (1.9%) and BNP Paribas Dvpt (1.4%).

Newrest is committed to continuously improving and innovating the services it offers to its clients, as well as to the well-being and progress of its employees and executives. Sustainable development and full adherence to social and environmental values lie at the heart of the company’s activities.

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