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PSL The Food Professionals

PSL is a British Food consultant company based in Leamington Spa in the UK

History
The business turnover is now in excess of £10m and PSL is the largest buyer of food in the UK hotel sector which enables it to save its customers 10-15% on their food purchases and consequent reductions in their food cost of sales.

Food Services & Consultancy
PSL boasts an impressive client portfolio which is predominantly made up of privately owned or small to medium sized hotel groups. These include high profile and award winning clients such as Dormy House, Rudding Park House, Fairmont St Andrews, The Dorchester, The Grove, Red Carnation Hotels, Eden Hotel Collection, Focus Hotels, Jurys Inn Hotels, Four Seasons Hotels, Legacy Hotels, Carluccio's, The Metropolitan, Necker Island,  Jumeirah Carlton Tower, The Landmark, Great Fosters, Corinthia Hotel London, Classic Lodges,  Radley College and so on.

The company’s services include: Food Procurement, hands on Food Operational consultancy and electronic food system solutions for the hotel sector.

PSL manages a portfolio of 180 food suppliers and is the largest independent food purchaser in the country. PSL, uniquely, aggregative client volumes which helps to generate savings of between 10-15% on food costs. The purchasing side of things is managed by a team of specialist buyers and analysts and a bespoke database which provides market intelligence and trends and automatically benchmarks and challenges all supplier’s pricing against the market. They are supported by PSL’s operations team who monitor supplier performance on clients’ back doors ensuring that the pricing benefits are delivered and food quality is maintained.

Operational Support & Purchasing Savings
Over the 23 years PSL’s operational team has developed a food operational support function to complement the purchasing services and this is what makes the company unique. The operational savings identified and delivered being as add-on to the purchasing savings. The operations team are 30 strong and are all highly experienced and from a variety of background in catering and hospitality. This service is tailored to individual client’s requirements and can range from supporting the implementation of the purchasing savings to working with clients on all aspects of the food operation including kitchen management, menu engineering, theoretical food costs and food revenue generation and capture.

E-Procurement, Darwin Database, Allergen & Menu Management
Technological advances in recent years have required PSL to invest significant amounts to develop systems to support suppliers and clients alike. Whether this is through Darwin, PSL’s unique purchasing database, providing eProcurement solutions or through their market leading Allergen and menu management system What's in My Dish. Or put it in as a web link What's in My Dish Daniel Wilson, PSL’s Managing Director, believes the current investment and development of PSL’s systems will ensure PSL’s suppliers and PSL 2016 is a far cry from the business conceived in the back of a taxi in 1991. It is both far more flexible and now prides itself on hands-on working partnerships that deliver bottom line and sustainable value for all clients.

How PSL operate
PSL offers a free evaluation of current purchasing to all potential clients and sets out the savings achievable prior to seeking commitment. Savings vary between 10-15%.

PSL generates its income by sharing in the savings identified and has flexible fee models which are dependent on the services and level of service required.

Awards
Pixelmetrix has been conferred the TV Technology STAR Awards (Superior Technology Award Recipient) 2012, 2009, 2007, 2004 and 2000,  C+T Technology Development Award 2009, Cable & Satellite International Product of the Year Award 2008, Engineering & Technology Emmy Award (2007), Broadcast Engineering publication Pick Hit Awards 2008 and 2005, BIRTV Product of the Year Award 2006, Cable-Satellite/Mediacast Product of the Year Awards 2004 and 2003, as well as the IABM Peter Wayne Award for Best Design and Innovation (2000).

PSL has been conferred the The Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work For

Small Business Best Companies Award in 2011 2012 2013 2014

Product lines
Pixelmetrix has five major product lines:


 * DVStation Monitoring Platforms
 * DVStor - Compliance Recording, Disaster Recovery, House of Worship Solution
 * DVStation-IP3 - IPTV Monitoring Platform
 * Electronic Couch Potato (ECP)
 * Consolidator - Network Management System
 * OTT Media Grinder (OMG) - Validation System for Over-The-Top Delivery Infrastructure
 * Pelican Video Encoders