Creed Foodservice welcomes
ATHENA CARE HOMES
A message from our MD
Welcome
Athena Care Homes prioritise the creation of a compassionate home environment, providing families and residents alike with the personal touches to make a comfortable home away from home.
As a family-run business, Creed is built on its family values, our people and our teams being our most important asset. We strive to go the extra mile for our customers, providing tools and solutions, alongside our leading product range, to add those personal finishing touches for your residents.
At Creed Foodservice, we believe in more. Thinking more, doing more and being more than just a foodservice provider.
Together, we can make a difference.
Philip de Ternant
Creed Foodservice
A Breadth of Experience
OUR EXPERIENCE & EXPERTISE
Welcome Athena Care Homes, to Creed Foodservice.
We’re a leading UK, family-owned, foodservice wholesaler. We specialise in supplying an extensive range of multi-temperature products and services to all sectors, across the UK.
Our proven consultative approach means that we work alongside our care home customers to truly understand their biggest challenges, overall objectives and residents' needs before shaping their food strategies.
Our vast experience working with independent, small group and multi-site national operators in this sector, makes us the foodservice supplier of choice for care businesses seeking:
- A comprehensive, quality product range, including the extensive Country Range Group offering.
- An innovative solutions based approach to range selections and concepts.
- Strong supplier partnerships to support long-term profitable business growth alongside resident well being.
Catering Essentials
THE RIGHT RANGE
We know when running a kitchen, ensuring you have the right products and ingredients at the right time is imperative.
Our comprehensive offering, comprised of both leading manufacturers and own branded Country Range products, allows you to cover all bases.
We’re also always on the lookout for innovative products and concepts to help you and your teams keep your customers coming back, time and time again.
Founding Members Of
THE COUNTRY RANGE GROUP
As one of three founding members of the Country Range Foodservice Group, a leading independent foodservice brand with over 30 years of heritage.
The Country Range brand provides caterers with a value for money proposition without any need to compromise on taste or quality.
With over 900 BRC accredited and a number of award-winning products, the quality, consistency and affordability of these make the Country Range brand widely regarded as the best in foodservice.
Going the Distance
TO REACH MUTUAL TARGETS
With sustainability at the very forefront of our agenda, striving towards carbon neutral 2025 and net zero 2035, our 3 conveniently situated depots based in Cheltenham, Ilkeston and High Wycombe, can offer our customers a nationwide solution that not only ticks the box for convenience but works towards minimising their carbon footprints also.
From analysis of the Athena Care Home sites, we believe we can provide a great logistical solution to service each of your homes through our existing routes.
We are currently trialling 3.5 tonne electric vans and 18 tonne electric lorries within our fleet, making the switch from unsustainable fossil fuels to really make a difference every day through the many customer delivery journeys.
Our vehicles are also newly fit with multi-temperature, diesel engineless power modules, reducing refridgeration emissions across our fleet as they make their way to you.
We are looking into alternative fuel types such as biofuel, whilst making sure our vehicles are appropriately equipped to be able to transition to biofuel once this resource becomes more accessible.
Practicing What We Preach
FOODSERVICE RESPONSIBILITY
Beyond delivery miles alone, there are a huge range of variables to appreciate within the operation of foodservice, and with that the responsibility we possess to run our company in the most ethical and sustainable way.
- We prioritise our own sustainable supply chains, striving to work alongside ethically like-minded suppliers and give preference to those who put sustainability first. We are also currently consolidating our own supply chain by 10% to reduce the number of deliveries into us.
- On site we have installed solar panels to cover the entire roofing to four of our five head office and depot buildings. Our warehouse, office and yard lighting has all been switched to motion sensored, and all electricity consumption on site is now generated from renewable sources.
- We work with TooGoodToGo to connect surplus stock with the general public to mitigate any food wastage, and we partner with Arrow Oils who collect our customers’ used oil, to prevent it from going to waste and harming the surroudning environment.
By maintaining our 'Zero Waste to Landfill' status at all sites and donating to our charity partners wherever possible, we want to make the right decisions, for the right reasons. In maintaining our responsibility both socially and environmentally for the wider world surrounding our business, and operating completely transparently throughout this journey, we can consider Creed more than just a foodservice provider.
People, Product, Planet.
A Partnership Approach To
CARE HOME CATERING
BUDGETING
Our team can work with you to;
1. Monitor daily spend, adhering to spend per head
2. Create bespoke and restricted buying lists
3. Manage product quality and consistency accross your homes
SUPPORT
We are more than a foodservice provider and as a Creed customer, we can support you with a range of tools to streamline your operations such as Saffron Nutritional Software, menu engineering, and more.
RELIABLE
We service a wide range of sectors across the foodservice industry and our 99.3% service levels are industry leading with stock availability and order fulfillment at the forefront.
Find Extra Information & Support In Your
CARE ASSET HUB
From our own 3-week menu plan to regulations from the BDA, you’ll find it all in your Care Asset Hub. Simply view our range of assets below and click to download! We’ll be adding to this hub continuously, so make sure to check back for updates.
Saffron Nutritional Software & Erudus
ALLERGEN &
NUTRITIONAL
ANALYSIS
We know that when using a wide range of ingredients from a selection of different menus and recipes, the nutritional and allergen breakdown behind these is essential.
Our customers can utilise Saffron Nutritional Software, a tool providing access to an online recipe book, allergen and nutritional reporting and menu costing. As the system is loaded with Creed product detail you can easily create a recipe or menu and add the required products to an order. This is an extremely useful tool as it allows you to;
- Create and edit recipes to track consistency.
- Ensure menus align with the Public Health England guidelines.
- Access live online allergen and nutritional reports for your menu.
Book A Visit To Our
FOOD INNOVATION CENTRE
Visit our Food Innovation Centre to spend time with our team of chefs.
With the help of our Insights & Innovation team, we regularly explore product and menu innovation and enjoy inviting our customers in to trial our solutions and inspire.
