Spalding-based Worldwide Fruit won the Plan A Food Supplier of the Year award at the Marks & Spencer Plan A conference and awards earlier this year.
The Lincolnshire fruit marketing and distribution company has been a long-standing client of US2U Consulting with their work together dating back as far as 2007.
Norwich-based US2U Consulting has worked with Worldwide Fruit on a range of initiatives to help develop the business, its staff and increase overall profitability.
Hannah McIlfatrick, Worldwide Fruit business unit manager, was presented with the award by Joanna Lumley and Marc Bolland, CEO of Marks & Spencer.
Marks & Spencer praised Worldwide Fruit’s commitment to Plan A stating: “Worldwide Fruit has invested in ways to increase production efficiency and product quality while reducing energy consumption.
“The company’s employees benefit from extensive training while growers are encouraged to adopt environmental best practice and generate improvements.”
Worldwide Fruit CEO Robert Balicki was delighted by the award.
“We are immensely proud to have won this award and would like to thank our WFL colleagues, our suppliers and our growers for their hard work and dedication to our sustainability agenda,” he said.
Worldwide Fruit is committed to providing the best development for their staff in order that their service is always the best they can offer.
Rachel Blackburn, US2U Consulting’s director, said: “We have worked with Worldwide Fruit for more than five years on several change initiatives.
“We are delighted that they have now been given the recognition they deserve for their efforts that see them continue to be a successful, sustainable and progressive business.”
US2U Consulting is a leading management consultancy, which provides key services to improve business practice and management. For more information about US2U Consulting, please telephone 01603 716852 or visit www.us2uconsulting.com.
About US2U Consulting
US2U Consulting is a leading management consultancy, which delivers solutions to make a positive difference to business practice and management for organisations.
Established by Rachel Blackburn in 2006, the Norwich-based company has grown significantly over the past six years and its success can be attributed to its ability to deliver consistent, measurable results for its clients.
The company offers a range of services designed to improve an organisation’s effectiveness and efficiency, including:
- People development and training, including recruitment interviewing, train the trainer, leadership skills and time management training
- 1:1 coaching and mentoring
- Customer and client relationship building and sales skills
- Managing change, including project management, diversity awareness, recruitment of key people and HR best practice including producing staff handbooks, contracts and policies
- Design and implementation of performance management systems including 360 degree feedback and staff engagement surveys
- Selection assessment, career development assessment and personal development planning
- Talent Management
- Independent management investigation to tackle people and process issues
US2U Consulting works with clients in the public and private sectors, including technology, healthcare, education, food and construction. Clients include The Technology Partnership, KLM UK Engineering, NORCAS, Adnams, Worldwide Fruit and the University of East Anglia.
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For more information, please contact Rachel Blackburn on 07786 263 610 or by emailing rachelb@us2uconsulting.com.
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