The Pantry Shortlisted In Growing Business Awards 2024

The Growing Business Awards have named The Pantry amongst the shortlisted candidates in the Growing Business of the Year:£10-£25m, and Innovator of the Year categories, and our Managing Director Luke Consiglio in the Entrepreneur of the Year - Medium or Large Business category for 2024.

Now in their 27th year, the Growing Business Awards are the most credible and highly valued recognition of exceptional growing businesses in the UK. Previous winners include Ella’s Kitchen, Fever-Tree, Moneysupermarket.com, Ovo Energy, Zoopla Property Group, and many more.

“Being recognised at the Growing Business Awards is always an honour for our business and it’s reflective of our continued growth and success to be nominated in three very distinct categories,” says Luke Consiglio, Managing Director of The Pantry.

“Having won an award at both 2022 and 2023 Award, we’re incredibly excited to see if we can make it a three-peat!”

Since 1998, the Growing Business Awards have been bringing together and honouring some of the UK’s most outstanding entrepreneurs and high-growth businesses. Finalists in this year’s awards will attend an interview with a panel of judges – leading figures from the UK SME community – at the judging day in September. The awards will be presented at a prestigious ceremony on 26 November at London’s Hilton Bankside hotel.

The Pantry are a Contract Caterer that have grown exponentially over the past four years, developing a reputation across the country for being a service provider that is about More Than Food.

From innovative meal ordering systems, a family-style approach to employee and customer care, and comprehensive educational support for clients, to competitive pricing, sustainable sourcing and nutritionally-led menus, The Pantry have been the fastest-growing company in the industry over the last four years – and entirely organically, too.

Starting life as a Sandwich Shop on Hayes High Street, The Pantry now numbers over 150 Schools in our client-base, as well as turning over nearly £17million a year – helping us employ over 700 people in London and across England.

As Luke concludes, “The Pantry are on an exciting and continuing journey that sees us pioneering change in our sector, raising the bar in terms of food service within the education sector where we deliver more than 38,000 meals daily."

"Our passion is to continue to educate and inform whilst delivering food memories for the current generation in school and to make a difference."

"Our team continue to push boundaries each and every day and I am proud of what are we achieving and recognition in these awards is testament to the hard work, dedication and commitment of each and every one of our team, each and every day."

"I am incredibly proud of our journey and look forward to the awards evening later in the year which will be a further celebration of the journey too.”