Big school lunch suppliers lose more than a quarter of contracts after performance issues

Big school lunch suppliers lose more than a quarter of contracts after performance issues
Catering companies Libelle and Compass have lost dozens of healthy school lunches contracts since 2022. (Image: NZME)
Due to performance issues, big catering companies have lost dozens of free school lunch contracts.Libelle Group, the largest supplier for the Ka Ora, Ka Ako programme, has lost more than a third of the schools on its books since July 2022.According to Ministry of Education (MOE) data, the Auckland-based caterer supplied 161 schools in July 2022. By May this year, the number had dropped to 103. Multinational Compass Group, the fourth-biggest school lunch supplier, lost more than a quarter of its school contracts in the same period – f...

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