2008 SPONSORS

Best Bar
Brown-Forman is a family-run American business, with over 35 brands in its portfolio including: Jack Daniel’s, Woodford Reserve, Southern Comfort, Finlandia, Tuaca, Chambord, Herradura & El Jimador Tequila's, Sonoma Cutrer and Fetzer wines. We are passionately interested in local events and are proud to support The Northern Hospitality Awards. Brown-Forman always promotes responsible consumption of our brands.

Blend recruitment

Best Hotel
Blend is the finest recruitment company in the sector.  A new approach for career minded individuals seeking best in class job positions for hotels, bars, restaurants and pubs, contract catering and corporate hospitality.

Steelite

Best Chef
Steelite International is a leading supplier of tableware, cutlery and stemware. The company provides the complete range of inspirational tableware for all occasions, from classic flatware to innovative and elegant service items. Steelite is committed to promoting excellence in the industry and is pleased to support the Northern Hospitality Awards

Matthew clark

Best Wine Offering
Wine is an increasingly important category within the on-trade. Consumers expect to be offered choice, quality and value. The Best Wine Offering award recognises outlets that have an exceptional offering. Matthew Clark is proud to have the opportunity to reward excellence in the industry through sponsorship of the Northern Hospitality Awards - Robin Knapp, Wine Director

Applied ability awards

Best Chef Mentor
The Awards are overseen by the AAA National Committee, which brings together the chefs' organisations from England, Scotland & Wales to establish national benchmarks for craft skills that are defined and maintained by the profession itself, whilst also providing an industry qualification through in-house mentorship and setting the standard for other learning providers.

Livebookings network

Best Restaurant
The Livebookings Network is an online reservations and marketing service for the restaurant industry. Livebookings has partnered with over 500 websites worldwide, including Time Out, lastminute.com and Ticketmaster to promote restaurants online and enable them to receive real-time bookings, 24/7 by customers surfing the internet. Over 17,000 restaurants have already joined including Gordon Ramsay, The Ritz and Planet Hollywood.

Seabrook crips

Best Pub
Founded in 1945 by Colin Brook, Seabrook Crisps Limited has been producing the finest potato crisps for over 63 years and is proud to still be a family owned business taking pride in everything we do. Seabrook Crisps offer the largest range of clean-label crinkle cut flavours in Britain, all cooked in pure sunflower oil and free from nasties. As a firm favourite with all pub goers, Seabrook Crisps are proud to sponsor the Best Pub award.

Applied ability awards

Best Newcomer
The Russell Partnership is the sector's leading consultancy specialising within the catering, conferencing and accommodation markets. The Partnership team are experienced industry professionals with an innovative approach to profitable and effective business solutions. The PArtnership core skills include strategic planning, market research, kitchen and restaurant brand design, operational evaluation, commercial planning and interim management.

Miller brands

Beer Provider
Miller Brands (UK) has a vision, to become the most admired company in the UK beer market. We will be admired for our strong portfolio of growing brands, including Peroni Nastro Azzurro, Pilsner Urquell and Miller Genuine Draft. We will be admired for our performance, continually outperforming the market. Finally we will be admired by our customers for our ability to meet and exceed their expectations and drive value into their business."p>

Special occasion linen

Linen Provider
Special Occasion Linen are hirers of top quality tablelinen. Choose tablecloths, napkins, runners and chair covers in over 30 solid colours, fab speciality fabrics and our new Organza range. With our own processing centre, we guarantee top quality, a reliable service and a Sales person in your area to help create beautiful tablesettings for any event.

Pub chef Morning advertiser

Restaurant magazine Hotel magazine

Media Partner
William Reed Publishing have been confirmed as the media partner for the Northern Hospitality Awards with sponsors, finalists and winners receiving recognition in their titles Morning Advertiser, Restaurant Magazine, H - Hotel Magazine and Pub Chef.