In Brief

WSH does a bank job

Wilson Storey Halliday, the UK's largest independent caterer, has won a five-year contract to provide catering services at Barclays Bank's new headquarters in Canary Wharf, London. The new office block, due to open next January, will be home to 5,000 Barclays Bank employees currently based in the City and West End. Wilson Storey Halliday will run a 275-seat restaurant, a 40-seat fine-dining restaurant and internal hospitality, and caf‚s and deli-bars throughout the building.

A vending service will be delivered in partnership with Coffee Point. Managing director Alastair Storey said: "It was the most thorough tendering process I've ever been through, which involved a real examination of our business."

BDL to open Ramadas

Scottish hotel operator BDL is branching out from running only InterContinental Hotels Group-branded properties and plans to open two new Ramada hotels in the next few months. BDL will open a 150-bedroom Ramada Encore hotel in Park Royal, west London, in April, followed by another in Swansea.

The deal with Ramada International Hotels and Resorts, part of US-based hotel company Marriott International, marks the group's diversification from the InterContinental Hotels Group brands. BDL operates 13 hotels - 10 Express by Holiday Inns, two Holiday Inns and one Crowne Plaza hotel. The group plans to have at least 21 hotels open by the end of the year.

Your very last chance to enter the Cateys!

You all know someone in the business that is worthy of a Catey - so why not nominate them for the top award in the industry? Nominations for Cateys must be in by tomorrow (Friday), except the marketing campaign categories, for which the deadline is 25 March. If you need a nomination brochure, contact Sarah Sutton on 020 8652 8349 or via e-mail at sarah.sutton@rbi.co.uk.