Two Rising Stars At Local company CHR Foodservice Equipment

Preston based foodservice equipment distributor CHR announce not one, but two of its staff are shortlisted in the new CEDA award category ‘Rising Stars’.  Amy Hartnett and Alex Sweetlove will join three other shortlisted nominees to find out who takes the coveted award at the CEDA conference on 24 April.

The company who are always looking to strengthen their highly successful team with good people are dedicated to the training and development of staff, and this industry recognition is just reward for all Alex and Amy’s hard work.

Ex-graduate Amy joined CHR in November 2012 working in customer service liaison, quickly progressing to Project Coordinator responsible for managing projects internally, from order through to completion, and with a friendly organised approach Amy is the ‘go-to’ contact for customers.  Amy also took on the role of putting the company through its paces in order to achieve ISO 14001 and 18001 environment, health and safety standards accreditation.

The second CHR nominee Alex Sweetlove joined the company three years ago as an office-based apprentice where it quickly became apparent that his skills lie in the AutoCAD drawings discipline.  At the time the company was looking to become BIM compliant and purchased Revit, a package Alex rapidly grasped the requirements of and within weeks was producing amazing 3D work.  This commitment to Revit has enabled CHR to improve its Presentation of Projects also making the provision of service drawings much simpler.  The company is now producing through caterquotes 80% of quotations direct from Revit.

Comments Ron Neville, founder of CHR, “Amy demonstrates excellent organisation and problem solving skills.  She has gone on to be promoted to project coordinator looking after the internal delivery of the installations CHR is contracted to deliver.  She is certainly one of my rising stars.

“Alex worked on different disciplines in the first three months of joining, and it quickly became apparent that he enjoyed working in the design department. He mastered the Revit package within weeks and shone with his work on The Restaurant project for Simon Rogan. For a guy who’s just 19 he has shown amazing commitment to CHR and is very worthy to be shortlisted for the CEDA Rising Star Award.”