Avenance Enseignement announces that some 20 sites will be holding an Open Day between 4 and 8 April, for the Sustainable Development Week. The purpose of this event is to make good use of awareness actions and work in the field to reduce the ecological footprint and act in favour of the environment. This year, Avenance Enseignement is beginning to operate with cellulose fibers via degradable trays for preparing meals, transported by electric vehicles or NGVs. Talking about waste, Avenance Enseignement is offering sorting and reutilization solutions capable of recycling almost 40% of the waste resulting from meal preparation.
In less than 2 months' time, the city of Marseille will be renewing for a further 7 years the attribution of the school canteens contract to the 2 current service providers: Avenance and Sodexo. With this in mind, hundreds of families have joined the community of parents known as "Change the canteen" which for several months "is fighting for our children's canteen to become healthier, more sustainable and more transparent".
Elior has decided to sell its institutional restaurant activities in the Netherlands to the British group, Compass. Compass has already indicated, on 30 March according to Bloomberg, that is has agreed to this purchase at a price of around €70 million for turnover of approximately €100 million, according to Les Echos. As 4th operator on the particularly concentrated institutional restaurant service market in this country, Elior Nederland BV holds approximately 10% of the market shares in the Netherlands, after Sodhexo, which controls one third of the institutional restaurant services and Dutch company Albron, and Compass, each of which have 20%.
The rugby team from the Sporting Union Agen (SUA) paid a visit to the Agen elementary schools to share a meal with the city's schoolchildren. The visit was part of the wide-ranging growing competition entitled "I support SUA", organized by Avenance with the support of the city of Agen and its leading-light rugby club. To celebrate the event, Avenance had thought up a 100% South-West menu, combining eating pleasure with a balanced diet.
The 2nd snacking Congress will be held on 9 June 2011 in Paris. The event is organized by the France Snacking magazine with support from SNARR, Leaders Club, the Salon Sandwich & Snack Show and Geco. Noteworthy participants will be Elior, Groupe Flo and Casino Restauration.
Elior has opened its 4th Courtepaille restaurant on the A5 motorway. Philippe Labbé, Courtepaille's chairman intends to take advantage of the renewal of many concession contracts between now and the end of 2000. Elior's Autoroutes France operations are directed by Dominique Dubald, points out "Le Manager de l'Alimentaire".
On Friday 2 February, under the guidance of Guy Martin, star-bedecked chef of the Paris restaurant, Le Grand Véfour, the cooks from the school restaurant prepared a high-quality lunch for the students. Six hundred meals were served with a recipe based on 100% cheese. This lunch forms part of the operation entitled "Our colleges have taste", under the prompting of the General Council.
Tim Hammond has just been appointed Managing Director of Elior UK. He joined the Whitbread group in 2001 as Managing Director of TGI Friday.
Elementary school restaurants in Toulon, like the Claude-Debussy School, on Thursday 3 February proposed a special menu entitled "Chinese New Year". Valérie Séraphin, director with Avenance, stipulates: "We work with teachers to encourage sustainable development and educate students with respect to taste and flavour. The menus served, the decoration, the soft music and the chopsticks all add up to stimulate the children in new areas of knowledge. 10 000 "Chinese New Year" meals were served during the day at Toulon.
