H&K International - Restaurant Equipment Systems

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H&K International Recognised As One of Ireland's
Top 25 Best Managed Companies
News Release: Thursday, 5th March 2009

H&K International has been recognised as one of Ireland’s Best Managed Companies by Deloitte and Bank of Scotland (Ireland). This prestigious award honours companies operating at the highest levels of business performance.

The strength of the Deloitte Best Managed Awards program is in the rigour of the qualifying process where hundreds of applicants participate in an extensive and rigorous due diligence process to identify and assess each company’s strategy, capability, commitment, financials and growth potential across all key functions of the business.

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Nominee: David Bobbett HK International
The Irish Times: Monday, 26th May 2008

ORIGINALLY AMERICAN owned, HK International is a leading global supplier of stainless steel kitchen equipment to the food service industry.

As chief executive, David Bobbett led an Irish management buyout in 2002. He describes his biggest business achievement as dealing with a 50 per cent drop in sales 10 days after completing the buyout, when their largest customer decided on a sudden change of strategy with a drastic cutback in capital expenditure. Bobbett restructured HK to provide total restaurant solutions, incorporating manufacturing and logistics, and the company now employs 970 worldwide, with manufacturing and service office operations in Mexico, US, Canada, UK and most recently Indonesia.

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H&K International
Makes The Ernst & Young 2008 Entrepreneur of the Year® Shortlist
News Release: Monday, 19th May 2008

Twenty-four companies have been shortlisted across three categories for the coveted 2008 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year® award. Over 115 entries were received and nominees were subsequently interviewed by Ernst & Young, followed by rigorous assessment by a 12-strong panel of judges, chaired by telecoms entrepreneur, and previous recipient of the award, Mr. Denis O’Brien.

Eight companies have been chosen in each of the three categories - international, industry and emerging, and cover a cross section of business interests with healthcare and business IT solutions among the top industries represented. An immediate benefit to each of the finalists is an instant access channel to over 200 of Ireland's leading entrepreneurs through strong networking opportunities the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year® Programme provides.

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Orlando Subway Convention

H&K participated in the recent Subway global convention in Orlando. This convention was attended by Subway global staff, development agents & franchisees from the Subway worldwide system, along with key suppliers. H&K presented our new hot and cold bain marie day covers which have been approved by Subway for supply to their system. H&K are already supporting the new and existing Subway restaurants in Europe and Latin America, and are expanding our operations in Australia & Asia to better support Subways growth in these key markets. H&K have been supplying Subway since 2001 with their stainless fabricated equipment such as bain maries, prep tables, sinks, back counters and beverage stations. We also purchase and consolidate the full Subway kitchen and furniture package, ranging from ovens to smallwares.

Orlando Subway Convention Representatives:

(left to right) Dale Dowrey, Keith Cassidy, Alessio Iera, John Morgan, Yana Soriano, Len Dragsund and Miguel Calera.

McDonald’s European equipment supplier of the year 2007

H&K were recently awarded the McDonald’s European equipment supplier of the year. This was presented to Keith Cassidy on behalf of H&K Europe at the McDonald’s European Equipment Manager conference in Berlin, which was attended by McDonald’s representatives from all the European country organisations. The major suppliers to the McDonald’s global and European system also attended. It was the only award presented at the conference.

In attendance to collect the award :

(left to right) Jeff Stratton, Pascal Bataille, Adrian Symons, Keith Cassidy, Christophe Henry, Patrick O’Donovan and Jim Fox.

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