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About The Crown Group

The Crown Group is a comprehensive collection delivering an effective range of hospitality, catering and events companies, remaining solidly independant and privately owned. Starting life in 1978 as a well-formed collection of higly trained and qualified chefs, who went onto form an agency that supplied local caterers with relief chefs. The business grew and soon two distinct catering companies were born; Crown Venue Catering (recently re-branded as Kudos Hospitality) and Crown Society Special Event Caterers (recently re-branded as Seasoned Events) both of which would go onto cater for some of the largest events and clients in London, one of which being The Royal Family.

The Crown Group's core catering activities have since vastly expanded into a diverse range of suppliers from flag manufacturing (Piggotts) to a graphic design consultancy (Creative Workhouse). For more information on each company please visit www.crowngroup.co.uk or continue reading below.

Over the years, The Crown Group has established itself in the world of catering and events management, ever changing and ever growing into one of the UK's largest privately owned group of companies.

edit Kudos Hospitality

Crown Venue Catering was formed in 1981 and it was not until recently that it became Kudos Hospitality as part of a major re-brand by its parent company The Crown Group. By focussing on achieving excellence for our clients, we have grown to become the leading independant contract caterer in our market. Kudos Hospitality has a number of lucrative contracts that involve catering for many prestigious venues across London and the UK, one such venue is Gibson Hall, an old banking hall located in the heart of the City of London. Another such venue is Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, where Kudos cater for all events held at their White Hart Lane Stadium, plus all matchday hospitality catering.

Other major types of veues include conference and exhibition centres, sporting hospitality stadiums, museums, galleries and attractions, leading professional bodies and institutes, principle meeting, lecture and seminar venues, primary arts and leisure sites, key training and learning centres, banqueting halls.

All Crown Group companies are very much interweaved, however, Kudos Hospitality and Venue Reservations, a free venue finding company, work very closely together to give potential clients an easier decision when choosing a venue for their event. By recommending a venue already catered for by Kudos Hospitality, the client will not then need to go and look for a caterer. Combine this with The Crown Group's experience in recruiting catering and events staff, and the client's event is pretty much planned.

Kudos Hospitality provide fine food designed and created with passion, flair and excellence. With some of the UK's most talented master chefs, Kudos Hospitality have all your catering needs covered. For more information please go to Kudos Hospitality.

edit Seasoned Events

Formerly known as Crown Society Special Event Caterers, it was not until 2007 that the company was given a re-brand and became Seasoned Events. For over 25 years, Seasoned Events have provided highly regarded award winning catering for special events all over London. Meeting and conference centres, major tourist attractions and a stronghold in London's historic Livery Halls are just a few venues you will find seasoned expertise. With the exception of the Livery Halls, Seasoned Events operate as one of a number of caterers for specific venues and events, unlike its sister company Kudos Hospitality, whom operate as the sole and permanent caterers at specific venues.

Seasoned Events employ the finest culinary, managerial and logistic expertise to bring a real sense of occasion to a range of exclusive events all over the country. Offering a variety of services that are second to none, from prestigious gala dinners and corporate hospitality to fun days and major sporting events.

Previous events have included the BRIT Awards, G8 Summits and the Official Birthday of Her Majesty The Queen, however, this does not mean we do not cater for smaller events like weddings, barbeques, receptions and Christmas Parties. Thats the beauty of Seasoned Events, we can cater for anything, anywhere. For further information please visit Seasoned Events.

edit London's Flying Chef

To add to The Crown Group's already extensive catering services, there is London's Flying Chef, the capital's leading business caterers. London's Flying Chef provide a first class, efficient and reliable business catering service to over two thousand of London's organisations. Providing and delivering food for breakfast meetings, lunches and dinners has been Flying Chef's expertise for over ten years, but have now extended their services to catering for parties, meetings, conferences, wedding receptions and afternoon tea breaks.

With menus ranging from buffets and 3 course meals, to sandwich and cake platters, all food is freshly prepared on the day required and delivered to your address. In addition to food, Flying Chef can provide the necessary staff and equipment you may need for your event. Should your event be a 3 course meal for 50 people, through our sister company Jobs2Go and parent The Crown Group we can provide all the waiting staff, chefs and event management staff you many need for your occasion to run smoothly and successfully.

But it does not stop there, working with The Event Hire Company - another organisation under The Crown Group - we can provide you with all the event furniture and equipment you may also need, for example, tables, chairs, cutlery, coat rails and linen. London's Flying Chef can provide the complete service, for more information please visit www.flyingchef.co.uk.

edit Missing Ingredients

To extend The Crown Group into the business and industry sector, Missing Ingredients was created to offer catering for staff and executive dining facilities at organisations throughout London. Slightly different to London's Flying Chef in that it has fixed contracts with organisations and caters onsite at their specific offices. Once such client is upmarket department store Harvey Nichols, where Missing Ingredients cater for all their staff eating areas and their commercial food departments.

But perhaps Missing Ingredients' biggest client is the Pinewood and Shepperton film studios in Buckinghamshire, where they cater for all staff food and drinking areas, but additionally provide hospitality catering for the venue's conference and banqueting facilities.

Missing Ingredients combine excellence in food with a first class service that is synonymous with the rest of The Crown Group of companies. With the support of The Crown Group's financial, marketing and othe business services, Missing Ingredients can concentrate all it's efforts and expertise on the most important thing - food. For more information please visit www.missingingredients.co.uk

edit Midsummer House

Midsummer House is a beautiful restaurant in Cambridge set right next to the River Cam on the Midsummer Common. A handsome Victorian villa converted to an award winning restaurant on serveral floors. The French Mediterranean cuisine designed and propriated by Head Chef Daniel Clifford, has received numerous awards but none more significant than the two Michelin Stars it received by 2006, which places it into an elite club of restaurants.

Every year Daniel Clifford travels Europe in search of inspiration for his next dish and style of food, and to prevent food boredom, the menu is changed on a regular basis, offering customers unique dishes and food experiences. Midsummer House has always been a part of The Crown Group, and the food that Daniel Clifford and his team produces often inspires the Group's other catering companies, such as London's Flying Chef and Missing Ingredients.

Midsummer House also has a relaxing out door terrace and garden in which to gain some peace and quiet throughout the summer months. Although serving French Mediterranean cuisine, Midsummer House represents typical English countryside, and there's no better place than Cambridge to see England's traditional beauty.

For more information on Midsummer House please visit www.midsummerhouse.co.uk

edit The Headley

One of the most recent editions to The Crown Group, The Headley is a traditional British restaurant and pub with a distinctive twist in its cool, comfortable and elegant surroundings. Located in Essex and surrounded by some of England's finest countryside, The Headley is a truly lovely retreat, whether you are looking to enjoy lunch with friends, an intimate dinner or a family meal.

Owned by East Anglia's only 2 michelin star chef, Daniel Clifford, who will be hoping he can emulate the success of Midsummer House where he obtained those 2 michelin stars. With the creativity and flair for food that Clifford and Head Chef Scott Wade demonstrate in the current menus, that first star will not be too far away.

Like Midsummer House, The Headley is a very special place worth visiting and for a reasonable price; and there is no doubt that it is a welcome addition to the ever expanding Crown Group, who will see its true worth when it reaches its first birthday in February 2008.

For more information and to view the menus please visit www.theheadley.co.uk

edit LeisureXtra

LeisureXtra was launched by The Crown Group to extend it's reach into the sports and leisure market. Having been awarded a lucrative contract to manage the cafe, bar, function and vending facilities of 75 leisure centres across the UK, The Crown Group decided to handle it via a new organisation.

Having the support, knowledge and experience from one of the UK's biggest catering organisations, will enable LeisureXtra to achieve the excellence synonymous with The Crown Group, build good relationships within the industry, and become a worthwhile addition to the Group.

For more information on LeisureXtra please visit www.leisurextra.co.uk

edit Sauce

Sauce is the most recent brand development by Seasoned Events (formerly Crown Society Special Event Caterers) specifically created to concentrate on events that have a strong fun element and less formal atmosphere. Not only do Sauce help clients with the catering elements of their event, but they can call upon the resources of the rest of The Crown Group in order to provide the complete event service.

Sauce offer a free venue finding service through partner company Venue Reservations; marquee hire services through marquee specialists, Piggotts; furniture hire services through partner The Event Hire Company; and all the staff needed for the event, courtesy of recruiter Jobs2Go. All this combined with the catering excellence that oozes from The Crown Group, and you have the complete event management package that will ensure your light-hearted event will be well organised.

For more information on what Sauce can do please visit www.sauce-sff.co.uk

edit Look Digital

Look Digital is a digital printing company that specialises in supplying branding materials for cities, towns, sporting and event venues, exhibitions, conferences, commercial organisations and government. Products include: huge building wraps, sports supporters flags and banners (including crowd surf banners), signage, exhibition display banners and parasols, all of which are made from environmentally friendly materials and are welcomed back for recycling after their useful life.

All of Look Digital's products are manufactured via advanced digital methods, enabling customer designs to be reproduced to their exact requirements. A Smoking ban will come into place in England on the 1st July 2007, which means that smoking will not be permitted in enclosed venues such as restaurants, bars, nightclubs and pubs. Look Digital can provide the ideal solution to this with their cafe barriers, which allow such venues to create an area outside for their smoking customers.

Look Digital's most recent client was the Football Association, when they produced all the pitch banners and branding material for the 2007 FA Cup Final at the new Wembley Stadium, London, England. With vast experience in the events sector, Look Digital's expertise in this area perfectly compliment the other services within The Crown Group.

For more details please visit Look Digital's website.

edit The Event Hire Company

The Event Hire Company provides furniture and equipment for a whole variety of events across London and the UK. Products include; banqueting and conference chairs and tables, outddor furniture, kitchen equipment and accessories such as coat rails and cake stands.

The Event Hire Company is one of the youngest within The Crown Group, yet still provides the first class service needed to smoothly prepare an event. All of the furniture and equipment is fully maintained by a specialist team, delivered to the event venue, installed and then removed after the event has finished.

It has proven to be an ideal compliment to the The Crown Group, and a brilliant extension to its already vast array of event services. For more information on The Event Hire Company please visit www.eventhireonline.co.uk.

edit Piggotts

Founded in 1780 during the reign of George III, Piggott Brothers started trading in the City of London at No.10 Old Jewry. We moved to larger premises in Cripplegate in 1841 and then to Bishopsgate in 1862.

Since 1970 we have been based at our eleven acre site near Ongar, Essex. We entered the new millennium by becoming a member of the distinguished Crown Group of companies and through this association we have re-established a City office, again in Bishopsgate.

Piggotts is split into three main divisions:

The flags division supply a massive range of national flags, corporate flags and sports flags; flag poles made from a number of different materials; bespoke banners; and windsocks of all sizes.

The marquee hire division supply marquees of all shapes and sizes for a variety of events across the UK. Previous clients include the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, Buckingham Palace and The BBC.

The Illuminations division supply seasonal decorations to towns, shopping malls and public events. Piggotts have been supplying the Christmas decorations to London's world famous Oxford Street and Regent Street for over 70 years.

For more information on Piggotts please visit www.piggotts.co.uk.

edit Jobs 2 Go

Jobs 2 Go supply hospitality catering staff to some of London’s most prestigious conference and banqueting locations. Whether you require one to four hundred staff, and will always approach each booking with a professional and honest approach.

Another highly significant and relevant addition to The Crown Group, enabling any company within the group to offer staff for client's events across the UK. All staff are fully trained, whether they be award winning chefs, or silver service waiting staff, Jobs 2 Go can provide them for any event.

The successful agency run by Sam Complin has over 2,000 staff on its books working in and around London at over 120 venues. This gives The Crown Group and its member companies a huge advantage over competitors, with ability to provide an extra service, making life easier for event organisers and clients alike.

For further information on Jobs 2 Go please visit www.jobs-2-go.co.uk.

edit Creative Workhouse

A team of imaginative designers with the capacity to create all your marketing collateral requirements – from original design ideas to brochures and printed materials. Creative Workhouse has undertaken this service for a number of our partnership companies within The Crown Group, including Seasoned Events, Kudos Hospitality and The Crown Group itself, all to great effect and satisfaction.

In addition to event and venue experience Creative Workhouse have a wide range of commercial clients from all types of background, including McDonald's Restaurants and Vinopolis. Working for a variety of clients provides Creative Workhouse with a breadth of design ideas and innovation they need to be at the forefront of the industry.

For more information on Creative Workhouse please visit www.creativeworkhouse.com.

edit Omniforce

Omniforce is The Crown Group's Internet Marketing department. Electronic and Internet Marketing are Omniforce's speciality area, where they provide strategic online marketing planning to businesses and venues. Expertise in Search Engine Optimization, Pay-per click (PPC) advertising, website design and development.

Omniforce are responsible for the design, development and marketing for all of The Crown Group companies' websites, which include London's Flying Chef, Look Digital and Venue Reservations.

The most recent websites to be created is The Crown Group, Kudos Hospitality and Seasoned Events, as a result of a major re-brand of all three organisations.

Omniforce specialize in Search Engine Optimization and have had great success with Venue Reservations, London's Flying Chef and Piggotts, whom all now have a vast online presence in the major search engines. The department are currently in the process of optimizing many of the other Group websites, including Look Digital and Kudos Hospitality.

For further information on Omniforce please visit www.omniforce.co.uk.

edit Casa Monte Cristo

Casa Monte Cristo is an exclusive villa with apartments, located in the heart of the stunning Western Algarve coast within easy reach of the beautiful and historic towns of Lagos and Praia da Luz. Exclusively available by personal invitation, providing guests with the height of luxury in a truly special country.

It is an asset owned by The Crown Group who use it as part of their new incentive scheme, VIP Attention. Clients who manage to accumilate a certain number of points as a result of using some of The Crown Group's many services, will be offered the chance to attend Casa Monte Cristo as part of their prize.

Nestled on a sunny hillside, Casa Monte Cristo offers its guests the perfect setting to experience the real Algarve. Whether you want to relax by the pool, wander through the beautiful grounds or explore Lagos with its daily markets, Casa Monte Cristo offers you the perfect location to enjoy the wealth of local amenities.

For further information please visit www.vipattention.co.uk or www.casamontecristo.co.uk.

edit VIP Attention

VIP Attention is a brand new incentive scheme where clients are truly rewarded! Clients have the opportunity to be rewarded with VIP Stars when using any one of the participating Crown Group Companies, counting towards fabulous prizes and once in a lifetime experiences.

From lifestyle activities to weekend breaks, exclusive hospitality events, luxury gifts and holidays... There are some magnificent prizes on offer in this truly exciting and exhilarating opportunity to reward yourself.

VIP Attention is available to approved agents, representatives of partnership venues, charities, corporates, associations and organisers who buy Crown Group services for themselves or on behalf of private clients.

For more information please visit www.vipattention.co.uk.

edit Venue Reservations

Last year Venue Reservations placed over £5m worth of revenue – venue hire, event and catering bookings into partner venues where The Crown Group provide catering and event services. A service that is completely free.

As Venue Reservations increases its reputation for effective sales into venues we get daily enquiries to use our services, but restrict the support to venues where The Crown Group companies are sole or nominated suppliers.

The free venue finding service provided by our team eases the burden on clients wishing to look for a venue for their event, and also event management companies that are also searching for a suitable venue for their clients. With hundreds of prestigious, exclusive and beautiful venues on the Venue Reservations database, it is another brilliant service offered by The Crown Group.

For more information please visit www.venuereservations.co.uk.

edit Gibson Hall

Located in the heart of the City of London, the Gibson Hall has impeccable credentials as one the finest banqueting and conference venues in London, a fact recognised by being a recent winner of the Corporate Events Association's Award of Venue of the Year.

The Hall, named after its architect John Gibson, was completed in 1865 for the National Provincial Bank of England and was the greatest of the City's banking halls, reflecting the classical Victorian elegance prevalent of the time.

Today, The Crown Group own the venue and with their vast experience in the events industry, can transform the venue into wonderful events. Once such occasion was the 2006 Soccer World Cup launch party in early 2006, to celebrate it being world cup year.

For further information please visit www.gibsonhall.com.

edit Contact Information

Crown Group Head Office
236 London Road,
Romford,
Essex
RM7 9EL
Tel: 01708 711200
Fax: 01708 742480
E-mail:

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• First nominated on 11:45, 22 May 2007 (PDT)
• Great looking page! The task-bar is nicely done. -- Posted by Blake Hinckley 11:45, 22 May 2007 (PDT)
• Thanks for the nomination but please do not put it up yet!!! i have am not anywhere near completing the whole group of companies yet...so PLEASE wait if you are going to put it up there! thanks, Andy
• Andy, no problem. Why don't you leave a note on my Talk page when you got these finished. I think we might want to feature the whole group (either the hospitality group, or all of Oriel Group -- depending on your inclination). Keep up the great work! -- TakKendrick | Talk
• Hey Andy, if this isn't the 'finished' article, I'll keep my eyes peeled for when you actually do complete it. This is one of the 'best-looking' pages I have seen on about us. Period! Way to go mate! Wasim Sajid | :::talk:::
• I'm "switching" this nomination from KudosHospitality.co.uk to CrownGroup.co.uk, since this is the parent company and the feature will no doubt cover all the pages in the group, all of which and being built out nicely. I'm also leaving a note for Andy to check-in, 'cause it does look like these are now almost all built out. -- TakKendrick | Talk 17:10, 20 July 2007 (PDT)
• The page looks ready to me. Testimonials are there, images are all aligned and the index is a distinguishing feature. A message has been sent to User:Andrew Cahill to let us know if he would like the page to be featured now. - Umair Tamim 22:54, 19 September 2007 (PDT)
• Left you a comment on your talk page. --Sa'ad ^{: msg me : email :} 03:29, 13 February 2008 (PST)
• Moving to LastChance today after no work on the page in quite some time. Please edit this discussion and/or the page to make the nomination active again. Asad | *~talk~* 02:08, 29 February 2008 (PST)