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VAT Increase

Just a quick announcement to remind you that the standard rate of VAT returns to 17.5% on 1st January 2010. This change affects any VAT registered business that sells or purchases goods or services that are subject to the standard rate of VAT. VAT will be charged at 17.5% for any sales of standard goods [...]

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Get set for service…

We sent the latest edition of our e-mail newsletter out this week… This week we’re embracing the busy Christmas Banqueting Season. Your preparations and bookings will be well under way but whatever your function this banqueting season we are sure we’ve got everything you will need. The email is packed with over 30 catering supplies [...]

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Caterersearch Web Awards – We’re on the shortlist!

The shortlist for the annual Caterersearch Web Awards was announced yesterday. For the 2nd year running we made the shortlist for our category and are hopeful of defending our title as the Best Catering Equipment Supplier Website 2009! We’ve changed the site considerably since we won last years award. The website design was given a [...]

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Champagne Glasses

Champagne Glasses – Celebrate in style

Hopefully you’ll be doing plenty of partying and celebrating over the festive period and what better way to bring in Christmas and the New Year than with some champagne. We’ve got a great selection of over 20 different styles and sizes of champagne glasses (or flutes) on the site. Check the economy Saxon Champagne Flute [...]

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Catering News – November ’09

Another of our monthly features where we report on the latest catering news from the hospitality industry. Green Options ‘Not Costly’ Hotels and restaurants could be missing the opportunity to improve their environmental performance because they wrongly assume it is a costly process. Research by the Institute of Hospitality and sustainability experts Envirowise found that [...]

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Caterers Urged to ‘Save It’

The Catering Equipment Suppliers Association (CESA) and Oxford Brookes University have jointly launched a Save It campaign. Keith Warren of CESA, which represents 130 manufacturers, says: Manufacturers are developing ever more energy efficient equipment, as well as looking at ways their designs can save on the use of other resources such as water. But it’s [...]

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