National School Meals Week 2017 to be sponsored by Kraft Heinz

The Kraft Heinz Company has confirmed they are to sponsor National School Meals Week 2017, run by the Lead Association for Catering in Education (LACA).

National School Meals Week (NSMW) takes place 13-17 November and is a week celebrating all that is great about school meals. There will be a number of high profile activities taking place, with a mixture of political activity and engagement with school caterers, pupils and parents.

Kraft Heinz will be promoting its No Added sugar and reduced salt baked beans and tomato sauce range and will be accompanying the NSMW team around the country as team member Karen Robinson runs five marathons in five days ‘Powered by School Meals’.

Gemma Jones, national accounts manager for The Kraft Heinz Company (pictured above) said: “I am so excited to be part of LACA’s NSMW; it is such a fantastic event. Kraft Heinz involvement is a great opportunity to showcase our products to the education catering sector and to be part of such high profile activity is terrific. LACA’s continued commitment to children eating healthily is to be commended and Kraft Heinz shares its goals.”

Jones continued: “We have dedicated years of expertise to carefully craft the new and delicious No Added sugar and reduced salt products, a new variety of the nation’s favourite, and we are sure children across the country will really enjoy them as part of their school meals, as we have ensured that the products tick all the boxes regarding the School Food Standards.”

LACA chair of events Neil Porter commented: “LACA is delighted to be working with such a household name as Kraft Heinz and it is a terrific endorsement of our work on National School Meals Week that they are so enthusiastically supporting our activities. On behalf of the LACA Board, I would like to extend a warm welcome to Kraft Heinz and offer our thanks to them for their much-valued sponsorship.”

Anyone can get involved in supporting NSMW.