The contract is the latest of 25 prison projects that WhitCo has successfully completed, not including all of the refurbishments and smaller schemes that it has been involved in or other privately managed prison projects over the years.
Tony Butler, WhitCo’s commercial and sales director, said: “We have been working on this project for almost 2 years, it's been very challenging, so we are very pleased to be awarded the contract, especially as this is the first super prison of its kind in the UK.”
WhitCo is also celebrating its 20th anniversary and its order book for the year seems the most successful to date. Then company continues to gain recognition and growth in the education, care, MOD and MOJ sectors, but also regionally and nationally through independent restaurants.
The company has also expanded into the bakery sector. Jeff Whitaker, managing director of WhitCo, said: “I first became interested in bakery equipment and this sector in the mid 80's when I was Sales Director of another company, they were a bakery equipment supplier and service company, I added the catering equipment side when I joined them after serving a long and successful career working for Hobart.”
WhitCo are set to begin a new era in 2016, with a new company structure to be unveiled in the new year and a strategy expected to see the company through the next five years.