‘Innovative Food Solutions for Catering Professionals’ was the theme of a seminar targeting the catering industry held at The Palace Hotel in Sliema recently. The seminar was organised by M&Z (Marketing) Ltd – leading local importers and distributors of various food brands - and Unilever foodsolutions, Italy – Unilever’s dedicated foodservice business encompassing many of the world’s leading brands including PG Tips, Lipton, KNORR, Flora, Hellmann’s and be ice.
The seminar was opened with a presentation by Matthew Camilleri, M&Z (Marketing) Ltd Director, who gave a brief overview of the Company and its ties to Unilever which date back to the 1930s. Historically a retail orientated business, M&Z (Marketing) Ltd have recently geared up to extend their service to the catering sector. This is being backed by a dedicated foodservice team offering an impressive range of products and solutions for local chefs and managers. M&Z (Marketing) Ltd, took this opportunity to reaffirm their commitment to the trade evident through providing their customers with 
innovative & profitable solutions, reasonable credit facilities, a knowledge driven service by Unilever foodsolutions trained sales reps and a delivery service manned by a HACCP qualified team.
Unilever foodsolutions Regional Sales Manager in Italy Girolamo Ippolito also used the seminar to introduce the Company to participants: ‘Unilever foodsolutions has for the past 40 years been engaged in becoming foodservice operators all over the world’ he said. It combines the trusted food heritage behind their range of established brands, with innovation and cutting edge research, to provide an extensive portfolio of mealsolutions. ‘The aim of this seminar is to demonstrate high quality, cost effective, time effective food solutions for the catering industry at the same time reducing the complexity of preparation’ Mr Ippolito said.
Guest Chef Gianluca Ortu from Unilever foodsolutions Italy then followed on to demonstrate a variety of savoury and sweet dishes to some of Malta’s top chefs and restauranteurs. Guests were invited to sample the dishes throughout the demonstration which included various savoury dishes enhanced by a number of KNORR products. be ice sorbetto, a front-of-house sorbet brand, was then used to cleanse the pallet and the seminar was completed by a demonstration of various Carte d’Or alsa desserts from the Unilever foodsolutions range.
Anyone requiring further information on any of the products used in the demonstration as well as any other catering products in the M&Z (Marketing) Ltd portfolio is kindly asked to call 21 484103 or 21 489383.
