Gladstone Education serves up a fresh partnership with LACA

"Best-of-breed" Cashless catering provider helps LACA members to meet NI 52 take-up reporting requirements

6th July 2009

Gladstone Education, the leading provider of cashless catering solutions to 21st century schools, has been actively engaging with members of the Local Authority Catering Association since joining the organisation as a Partner six months ago.

Gladstone Education specialises in providing cashless catering, electronic registration and facilitating access control integration using smartcard and biometric-based technology, and is a key supplier to the UK Government's Building Schools for the Future (BSF) initiative.

Neil Porter, National Chair of LACA, commented: "We were delighted to welcome Gladstone Education to LACA's Partnership Programme. LACA Partners provide a valuable contribution towards helping the organisation achieve its aims and objectives and I look forward to working closely with Gladstone for our mutual benefit."

Mark Roger, General Manager of Gladstone Education, commented: "We were very pleased to be accepted as a LACA Partner six months ago. Since that time we have actively engaged with LACA members at regional events across the country to find out how we can best serve this crucial area of the market with our industry-leading Cashless catering solution."

Mr Roger continues: "Gladstone Education shares LACA's passion for achieving high standards of professionalism in school catering, and we look forward to helping more LACA members to deliver healthy school meals to our children. Partnering with LACA sends a strong signal to the market that Gladstone Education is committed to providing "best of breed" solutions for school catering managers."

Through this engagement with LACA members, Gladstone is well aware that catering managers are particularly concerned about the NI 52 take-up reporting requirements. Mr Roger continues, "Gladstone's Cashless solution can help catering managers to meet and report on the latest nutritional standards. By using our flexible and tailored reporting tools, schools can effectively analyse and report on a range of school meal data. What's more, our Cashless system seamlessly integrates with the leading nutritional analysis software packages, providing schools with an unbeatable solution."

Press contact

Peter K. Doyle, Head of Marketing, Gladstone plc
T: 01491 202825
M: 07977 152009
pdoyle@gladstoneplc.com