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Safetray makes its Wikipedia debut
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Safetray is Event magazine's What's Hot of the Week
Haymarket Publications' Event magazine has chosen Safetray as its "What's Hot" selection for this week - see the full article here.
"What's the point of creating exquisite canapés if they're going to be scattered on the floor when a serving tray tips over?
Safetray is a new product being used by companies like Compass Group and Sodexo to avoid dropped trays by keeping food and drink perfectly balanced when they are served.
The clue is in the name - Safetray is an adapted tray that remains steady thanks to a retractable clip on its underside, which slips between the server’s middle fingers to offer stability using downward and horizontal traction.
Even if your waiting staff are perfectly poised, they could benefit from the handy clip: a survey conducted by Safetray found nearly a quarter of hospitality staff have suffered an injury because of a toppled tray."Read more here: Safetray is Event magazine's What's Hot of the Week
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Safetray goes to the movies
Does your mouth water when you think about the pasta scene in Goodfellas or the pizza in Moonstruck? If movies make you hungry, Safetray is teaming up with Foodies Festivals to deliver a unique experience across the UK this summer: the Food of Love Cinema. Starting 5-7 May at Hampton Court Palace, visitors to Foodies will be able to watch films from all over the world, along with the same food that the actors are eating on celluloid, all served up on a Safetray.
Curated by British film director Hannah Robinson, the selection of films and food at the Food of Love Cinema includes:
Bugsy Malone - cream pies and sasparilla
Babette's Feast - French delicacies
Moonstruck - pizza
Goodfellas - pasta
Tampopo - Japanese cuisine
The Scent of Green Papaya - Vietnamese street food
Tickets for the Food of Love Cinema are £10 for adults and £5 for children, in addition to entry to Foodies Festivals.
Read more here: Safetray goes to the movies
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New article on www.ifw-net.com includes Safetray
A new article on www.ifw-net.com about manufacturing in China versus the UK mentions CEO Alison's recent interview in Lloyds Loading List.
"Last month, IFW’s sister publication, Lloyd’s Loading List.com, ran a story about UK manufacturer Safetray Products, which shifted production from China to Scotland after quality control issues. It found producing and exporting from Scotland cost the same as from China, and it gained more control over its supply chain."
Read more here: New article on www.ifw-net.com includes Safetray
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Safetray on Tour part 2
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Safetray is heading back to Chicago, this time to attend the National Restaurant Association Show 2012 from the 5th-8th May. We will be sharing a booth with those purveyors of sharp design, our friends Freud Ltd, so come along and see both teams on booth 3289 at McCormick Place. Follow us on Twitter @safetray and look out for hashtags #safetrayontour and #ivegotthewholeworldonmytray, or find us on Facebook and let us know your top tips for nights out in Chi-town -- naturally, we'll be working hard and playing hard.
Read more about our very cool booth partners below.
"Established by the Freud family in 1986, London design house Freud Ltd seeks to bring beauty and authenticity to coffee and tea service, glassware, and tabletop. The coffee and tea and glassware products featured are British design classics – all hand finished from durable, traditional, responsibly sourced materials - adapted for use in commercial settings. Durable and functionally flawless, they are also design objects which bring style and sophistication to table service. That's why (for instance) C. Hoare & Co, Britain's oldest private bank, serve tea to the their elite clients in Freud teapots. It's why the Mandarin Oriental Hotel Hong Kong uses Freud cafetieres. And it's why top tea houses, coffee bars, and Michelin star restaurants across Europe now use Freud products. To quote Blueprint magazine in 1986, the year we were founded, our products are 'affordable icons.'"
Read more here: Safetray on Tour part 2
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Safetray featured by Santander
CEO Alison talks money in this recent interview. Click here for more.
“I’ve earned the right to be here,” she adds. “The best way to argue against prejudice is through success. You can’t be prejudiced against hard sales figures and rising revenue.”
Alison believes that success brings recognition, but it also requires tenacity. “When you are trying to achieve a game-changer there will always be more people who oppose you than support you, whether you are male, female, 50 or 20. It’s the same for anyone who wants to achieve anything out of the ordinary.
Tell 'em how it is, Ali.
Read more here: Safetray featured by Santander
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Safetray achieves NSF listing
Safetray has this week been awarded NSF listing for its adherance to the highest standards of food safety. The NSF certificate, which is awarded by a US government body, is recognised internationally and demonstrates that a product is not only made entirely of food-safe materials, but is also manufactured in a clean and safe environment.
Alison Grieve, inventor and CEO of Safetray Products Ltd, said: "NSF listing is essential for companies trading internationally in food and drink related products. It's a globally recognised mark of quality and safety - the same standards that Safetray itself promotes."
The certificate can be viewed online here, and all Safetrays manufactured in the future will now include the NSF mark of quality.
Read more here: Safetray achieves NSF listing
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Safetray featured in The Scotland on Sunday
Read the full article here
Investment scheme passes £1m milestone
By ERIKKA ASKELAND
A UNIQUE programme designed to prepare entrepreneurs for raising cash from investors has seen small firms attract £1 million since it launched last year.
The scheme, dubbed “Road to Investment”, was conceived by business adviser John Hughes of Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce and Howard Flint, investment manager with business angel network Linc.
It provides seven workshops over the course of one month.
Funded by the chamber and Edinburgh City Council through Business Gateway, the programme is free to entrepreneurs, except for a £150 registration fee paid to Linc to broker meetings with angel investors.
Its most successful fundraising to date saw Edinburgh-based Safetray raise £200,000 from an investor syndicate in December.
The funding, provided by early-stage investment group Equity Gap and individuals, will allow Safetray’s founder, Alison Grieve, to strengthen its patent protection and expand its markets in the Middle East and the United States.Read more here: Safetray featured in The Scotland on Sunday
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Safetray featured in Lloyd's Loading List
From Lloyd's Loading List, 19th March 2012
Click the image to read the full story, or follow the link below.After just one shipment, Edinburgh-based company Safetray Products decided to stop manufacturing its trays in China. CEO Alison Grieve talks to Isabel Lesto about how this small business made a big change.
Why did you switch manufacturing from China to Scotland?
At Christmas 2010 we received our first shipment from China. The 4,000 trays that arrived in the UK were unusable: it was heartbreaking. We managed to get the stock remade to specification, but we had to fly to China to sort this out. Quality control in China is really difficult; it is so expensive because there is such a big demand for this type of service.
Besides this, lead times are longer and paying duty upfront is more difficult for cashflow.
We are now manufacturing with the family-run business McLaren Plastics here in Scotland for the same price. We can control shipments more easily from the UK, and customs procedures are much more straightforward.How easy have you found this shift?
Transferring manufacturing to the UK has not been easy. We had to modify the [tray-making] tool for use here; unfortunately when it was on the water from China, the tool manufacturer we had chosen in Stirling went out of business and we had to find another one. The one we found is excellent but further away in Yorkshire so we have had to go backwards and forwards quite a bit.Read more here: Safetray featured in Lloyd's Loading List
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Safetray available from Bunzl Lockhart's new catalogue
Read more here: Safetray available from Bunzl Lockhart's new catalogue
Safetray is NSF Certified
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