Contract caterer Sodexo adds Nuffield Health Fitness & Wellbeing Centres to portfolio

The new five-year contract is worth an estimated £2.6 million a year and will see around 100 Sodexo employees providing the food and beverage service at 15 Nuffield Health Fitness & Wellbeing Centres across the UK including the City of London, Portsmouth, Chelmsford, Hull and St Albans. Sodexo's Be… Active offer will offer a selection of food and drinks to meet the lifestyle and preferences of the users of the centres. John Wright, Sodexo's director for private hospitals commented: "We are very pleased to have been awarded this contract . It is not only great news for the business but the new contract fits in perfectly with our own Healthwise philosophy, under which we provide advice and information to help our clients, customers and our own employees learn how to achieve balanced diets and healthy lifestyles." Simon Hooper, Nuffield Health's director of retail, added: "Sodexo has demonstrated not only that it can provide an excellent service but that as a company it has a similar vision. We are looking forward to rolling out Sodexo's Be… Active offer at the selected sites as it will offer our customers the perfect compliment to the services we offer."