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Flexeserve wins Queen’s Award for Innovation Flexeserve, has been honoured with a Queen’s Award for Enterprise: Innovation 2022. Hailed by CEO, Jamie Joyce as “Flexeserve’s greatest achievement to date”, the award will be marked with a reception hosted by HRH The Prince of Wales at Buckingham Palace on 12 July 2022. Recognising and celebrating business excellence across the UK, the Queen’s Awards for Enterprise are the most prestigious awards for UK businesses. They were first awarded in 1966 – the same year Alan Nuttall founded his business – with Her Majesty The Queen personally approving the winners. The business, then known as ‘Alan Nuttall Ltd – Fresh Food Solutions’, won an award for innovation in 2005, and now the revolutionary Flexeserve Zone has achieved this incredible accolade. Jamie Joyce added: “Winning this national award, recognised around the world, is overwhelming – it’s a dream come true for the business. This award is won by every single Partner in the Flexeserve team, as well as our wider Partnership and customers. This has been made possible by the belief of all these groups of people in our flagship product, Flexeserve Zone.” Flexeserve Zone is capable of hot-holding food to go products with different temperature requirements at the same time. The patented unit creates a consistent
air temperature throughout each shelf, which can be individually controlled. This unlocks new opportunities for major operators to expand product ranges, achieve unrivalled hold times and reduce food waste, whilst maintaining excellent food quality – for the best possible customer experience. The unit can be found in a range of foodservice operators – large and small, in the UK and globally - including Pret A Manger, Greggs, M&S, Sainsburys, Circle K and Amazon Go.
Flexeserve sweeps the board at GBCC Awards In a rare double win at the prestigious annual Greater Birmingham Chambers of Commerce (GBCC) Awards, Flexeserve’s team say that they were delighted to win both awards entered. The hot-holding company won Excellence in International Business and Excellence in Sales & Marketing at the GBCC Awards 2022, presented by the GBCC on Friday, 4 March 2022 at the ICC, Birmingham. Jamie Joyce, CEO of Flexeserve, said: “It was an incredible night for the business. We were blown away to receive this recognition from the Chambers in two fields. We were up against stiff competition in both categories, and these awards underline the level of our team’s success. “Even with the challenges of the last couple of years, we have secured and fulfilled pivotal, large-scale rollouts. We’ve led customers through the pandemic, helping them achieve their goals for high quality hot food, increased sales and reduced waste, and everyone has risen to the occasion.” Flexeserve is developing a taste for being an 10 I www.sandwichandfoodtogonews.co.uk
award-winning business, having also won the award for Excellence in Manufacturing at the LeicestershireLive Business Awards 2020/21 in September last year. For the Excellence in International Business Award, Flexeserve detailed its expansion into the U.S., and the ways in which it has overcome the challenges of the pandemic (Flexeserve has experienced exponential growth in its international sales, with much of that increase taking place in North America). With the Sales & Marketing Award, the theme of overcoming challenges was key once again, with Flexeserve creating and broadcasting Flexebition – its own livestreamed digital exhibition, in the absence of in-person events.
