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  • Full name of company: Compass Group UK & Ireland
  • Sector: Catering, Hospitality
  • Training provided: Apprenticeships, Train to Gain, Skills for Life
  • Number of employees: 52,000

As the largest foodservice organisation in the UK and Ireland, Compass Group UK & Ireland provides high quality catering and support services at 7,000 locations and provides great service to customers who make nearly three million purchases with us each day.

Services like staff restaurants, student refectories, hospital patient meals, coffee shops, cafe bars, food courts, corporate hospitality and executive dining are some of the many which the company provides to clients ranging from blue chip company head offices to military bases, from universities to sports stadia and from schools to hospitals.  As well as catering, Compass also provides a full range of business and operational support services like cleaning, building maintenance, reception and security, and many other services to support our core catering service. This is a growing area of the business.

Compass has worked with NES for over two years in order to offer staff a range of nationally-recognised qualifications, including level 2, level 3 and Skills for Life.

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  • Apprenticeships are not the poor relation any more

    Sir Roy Gardner, Chairman Of Compass Group on how apprenticeships have changed – they are no longer relevant only to young people with a poor academic record or appropriate to those who want to learn a trade, like building, engineering or carpentry.

    08 February 2010

  • Compass celebrates apprenticeships with TV’s Market Kitchen

    One of Compass Group UK & Ireland’s up-and-coming apprentices joined forces with Gary Rhodes, one of the catering company’s consultant chefs, on the Good Food Channel’s Market Kitchen in celebration of Apprenticeship Week.

    05 February 2010

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