Kenya: NAS Servair Spreads Wings to East and Central Africa
By NewsfromAfrica
NAIROBI-- With a strong brand equity and experience on one hand, and employers seeking ways of improving employee productivity, NAS Servair Wednesday launched NAS Cuisine, a product that offers customers quality, hygienic and cost effective catering solutions.
Speaking at the launch, Mr Eric Rouvillois, the General Manager, noted that NAS Servair’s new product will leverage on the company’s production processes that have differentiated NAS Servair and positioned it among the best globally. He said “those customers who choose to go with us will benefit from our modern catering technology that facilitates the production of nutritious, fresh and safe meals. They will become part of our constituency of customers and suppliers covered by a HACCP (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point) assured safety and quality system that ensures that our products maintain high quality standards.”
“In addition, customers will benefit from Microbiological sampling of food and water at our own ISO17025 accredited laboratory as well as laundry services provided from a fully equipped ultra modern laundry.”
Mr. Richard Omwela, the Chairman, congratulated the NAS Servair Team for their foresight in identifying a niche in corporate catering and developing the NAS Cuisine Experience. He noted that this launch is timely as NAS Servair will take advantage of the East Africa Trade Protocols as it rolls out the new product in East and Central Africa.
The product can be tailor made for hospital catering, military and tourist camps, in addition to corporates and industries.
NAS Servair has entrenched itself as the in-flight catering service provider in the continent. The world’s best known airlines trust NAS Servair to cater to their most important people – their passengers. From Kenya Airways to British Airways to Emirates to Virgin, they all know who they can rely on. Thirty (30) is the number of airlines in NAS Servair portfolio.
The NAS Servair story started in 1949. Robert Seeman began a one-man sandwich company, selling food to aircraft operating out of a military base. In ten short years he’d changed the name of the company to NAS Airport Services and joined Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) at its current site.
Today NAS Servair provides a fully integrated system of catering and ancillary support for airlines landing at both Nairobi and Mombasa international airports. The Nairobi headquarters occupy a modern, purpose built, architecturally striking building against the backdrop of the Athi Plains where the country’s famous wildlife roams no more than a few kilometres away. The contrast of the natural world, so close to its doorstep, is emphasised by the company’s high-tech facilities, geared for production peaks of 14,000 meals a day flown to the four corners of the world.
NAS Servair has its own bonded warehouse and stocks a wide array of wines, spirits and other duty free attracting goods for supply to airlines and can arrange to house special stock for individual airline’s requirements. This is alongside a dry-goods store stocked with Kenyan and international items, also capable of sourcing and holding special requests.