Wheatsheaf wins

Edinburgh-based Wheatsheaf Catering has won three Scottish sporting contracts worth £2m.

The contracts are for three, four and five years respectively at Glasgow’s Hampden Park football stadium, Perth racecourse and the newly built Broadwood Stadium in Cumbernauld, Strathclyde, home of Clyde football club.

Meanwhile, Sutcliffe Catering Scotland has won contracts to provide catering at Co-op superstores in Aberdeen and Inverness, at East Kilbride textiles firm Bairdwear and at Fairburn House private nursing home near Inverness.

GM’s Conference

THIS is the last call to sign up for this year’s General Managers Conference, “Planning for Success – the key role of the GM”, on 11 January at London’s Savoy.

The conference and dinner, run by the Master Innholders and Worshipful Company of Innholders, costs £99 plus VAT per delegate. Tel: 081-777 6322.

Sproat in USA

Tourism minister Iain Sproat is in the USA this week drumming up support for the D-Day 50th anniversary celebrations which take place in June.