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Success breeds success Recent contract wins have included global real estate investor, developer and manager Hines, law firm Lewis Silkin and power tools business Stihl, with the geographical scope of mobilisations encompassing sites in London, Surrey, Nottingham and Manchester. All contracts are approximately one to three
years in length and will see BM provide ser- vices including meals, hospitality, coffee bars, full-service restaurants and events. Brydon says: “We’re incredibly proud.
They’re a great variety of contracts in different locations. We set out to energise workplaces dif- ferently for each client and that’s meant we’ve been able to create some great opportunities and bring some brilliant people on board.” Prentice adds: “It does breed further suc-
cess. The team feel the positivity of a contract win and it energises everyone.” Brydon and Prentice are looking to expand
the business’s presence in the Midlands and the North, creating dedicated sales hubs to pursue new opportunities, particularly around Birmingham and Manchester. The joint managing directors were appointed in 2022 following the departure of former UK managing director Francois Gautreaux and chief executive Ian Thomas, who took up another role within WSH. It was Bartlett, who remains executive chairman of the business she founded, who suggested they lead the business in partnership. Prentice says: “It came from Wendy. She
knows us both very well and she knew what we each bring individually. It was a question of our balanced skill sets. Angus and I have a good relationship, we know each other very well and it wasn’t hard to decide how we’d split respon- sibilities. We have huge trust in one another – we seem to intuitively know what to pick up.”
Angus Brydon and Antony Prentice:
Angus Brydon Brydon’s hospitality career started in a hotel in Beijing, after which he moved to Cardiff to study hospitality management before joining Aramark’s graduate scheme. He then joined
Restaurant
Associates, part of Compass Group, where he was a food services manager in London’s Canary Wharf. He moved to Bartlett Mitchell in 2009 as an area business manager, rising to the position of senior operations manager before departing in 2014 to join Elior. He brought his learnings back to Bartlett Mitchell in 2017 when he rejoined the company as operations director. He became divisional managing director in 2019 and was appointed joint managing director in 2022.
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