Edward D'Alessandro was recently appointed chief executive officer of Cater Group Ltd, a fully owned subsidiary of the Vassallo Builders Group which recently acquired the brewery in Qormi, where it proposes to set up a new catering central processing unit among other projects planned for this site .

Mr D'Alessandro was also appointed CEO of Cateressence Ltd, a newly formed company within the group. Cateressence will provide additional contract catering, outside catering and catering for the conference and incentive market .

Mr D'Alessandro specialised in hotel and catering management and started his career with the Corinthia Group and Fortel group, where he held various managerial posts.

In 1992, he joined Island Hotels Group to help create and set up a new outside catering company. In 2003 he was further promoted to director of operations, sales and marketing of this company.

Vassallo Builders Group's contract catering division already supplies over 3,000 meals a day and this amount is expected to increase in the next few months due to the group's acquisition of a number of new properties.

In its first few months of operation, the new outside catering division has successfully catered for a number of prestigious events, which included exclusive functions such as the official opening of The Point at Midi for over 1,500 guests.