Accommodation & Hospitality Services - Purchasing
What are we doing?
Accommodation & Hospitality Services has a very good green foundation, from sourcing locally produced food where possible to ensuring used cooking oil is either recycled or even used by the engineering departments for projects.
Listed below are some of our green suppliers (all external links open in a new window):
| Contract | Suppliers | Details |
| Beverage Systems & Associated Products | Matthew Algie | Fairtrade Tea and Coffee in venues across campus |
| Peros | Café Direct by Fairtrade Coffee in the Parade Bar | |
| Bath Ales | Keep food miles to a minimum by sourcing all food (with the exception of fresh fish) from within a 40 mile radius. All glass, cardboard and paper is recycled. And encourage suppliers to minimise the packaging on the goods bought. | |
| Heineken | Heineken are very much aware of their responsibility towards the environment. This includes a highly evolved alcohol and environmental policies. | |
| GlaxoSmithKline | GSK aim to transform how they do business, following the principles of industrial ecology, optimising the efficiency of processes and increasing use of renewable materials and energy. | |
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Fruit & Vegetables |
A David | Many of the products that A. David supply are from local growers. The company believes passionately in supporting the surrounding economy |
| Fresh Meat & Poultry Products | John Sheppard | The Sheppard family have been butchers for over 50 years in the Bristol area. |
| Jon Thorner | Thorner supplies locally sourced meats and fine foods through farm shops and butchery counters across Somerset and North Dorset. |
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| Dairy | Bath Soft Cheese | Locally sourced dairy produce from Park Farm, Kelston. |
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Fish & Seafood |
M&J Seafood |
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Frozen & Grocery |
Brakes | Over 70% of food supplied by Brakes is locally sourced & it fully supports British products. |
| Viennoiserie & Cakes | Delice de France | The distribution centre for this premium product range is local. |
| Pastries & Sandwiches | Pullins | Pullins Bakers is an award winning family craft bakery and BSA accredited sandwich manufacturer. It has been baking in Somerset since 1925 using premium ingredients, traditional methods and family recipes to create delicious breads, pastries and flapjacks, all hand crafted for food lovers. As for the fillings, the company uses only premium ingredients, from Organic cheeses to Farm Assured ham and it tries to source locally wherever possible. The "signature" range of sandwiches use biodegradable packaging. |
| Cleaning Products | Diversey | Diversey have a clear sustainability policy and focus. |
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Cooking Oil |
Campbell Environmental Oils place enormous emphasis on the environment and is very conscious that waste must be kept to a minimum. For this reason, it runs a service whereby it collects its waste oil from the catering trade and turn it into bio-diesel to run its vehicles. It also uses the oil by-product as animal feed which means that absolutely none of the original crop is wasted. |
