Zad's Catering Division signs agreement with Tantash Group's industrial investment division

Zad will be providing its pioneering food services to Tantash's industrial investment division including Middle East Pharmaceuticals (MidPharma), and Arab Centre for Pharmaceutical and Chemical Industries (ACPC), Jordan's leading pharmaceutical products manufacturers and one of the largest local producers of branded generics.

'We are honored to be signing this agreement with Tantash Group, in particular, MidPharma and ACPC. It is a great opportunity for us to start supplying the Jordanian pharmaceutical industry with our services, which will unquestionably demonstrate our ability to provide quality food products with optimum hygiene and compliance to safety procedures to the leaders in this field,' said Rodney Woolliscroft, General Manager, Zad.

Upon this agreement Zad will be providing its food services on a daily basis to the employees of Tantash Group in two locations; MidPharma in Baq'a, and ACPC in King Abdullah II Industrial City in Sahab. 'Lunch meals are transported safely to our client's premises ensuring consistency of temperature, hygiene and quality of food - through the deployment of examination measures and service quality indicators - and then are placed in highly presentable, and efficient to use, serving stations,' said Abdelhaleem Humood, Zad's Marketing and Customer Relations Manager.

'We are pleased to be signing this agreement with Zad, and we believe that working with specialized food service providers and relying on their abilities will support our operational requirements. We have an understanding of how to integrate systems and people to provide quality and cost efficient services that result in increased productivity and efficiency levels of our employees,' said Mazen Tantash, Chairman, Tantash Group.

To ensure maximum consistency of hygiene - an absolute 'must' for the pharmaceutical industry - Zad has utilized a focused quality management programme manifested in a specialized microbiology lab on site to check all phases of production from storage to delivery to ensure food safety, in addition to controlled storage facilities that ensure different types of foods to be stored in accordance with their optimum storage environment.

'We are confident that our services will meet the high standards of hygiene and quality that the Tantash Group is seeking. Working in accordance with international food safety procedures such as ISO and HACCP will be the main competitive advantage we offer in this enterprise,' concluded Woolliscroft.

'Outsourcing food services and having Zad as a strategic partner will help us concentrate on the core of our business which is achieving competitive growth through optimal market production, empowered personnel, and innovative integrated approaches,'

concluded Tantash.

Zad's catering division is the largest Jordanian company to provide multinational hot and cold meals including Arabic, Indian, Sri Lankan, and Chinese meals - within different menus at competitive rates for a wide range of tastes and budgets - prepared by 220 staff together with multinational chefs who work in accordance with international standards including ISO quality assurance and HACCP food safety procedures.