The catering landscape in Malta is changing fast with the teaming up of Corinthia Group and Vassallo Group – two of the largest groups of companies on the island – to set up Catermax, their new catering organisation.

Catermax CEO Edward D’Alessandro said that developments that led to the creation of Catermax were unprecedented in Malta: “With Catermax we are witnessing two of the largest groups of companies in Malta consolidating all their work and resources in one fresh catering company. We strongly believe Catermax to be on course to become the largest quality-oriented catering company in Malta”.

Mr D’Alessandro said that Catermax is offering creative and distinguished outside catering, tapping into the conference and incentive market, weddings and high profile events and functions.

The Corinthia Group’s outside catering division has been running successfully for 40 years, whereas, Vassallo Group, until recently a 50 per cent shareholder in Island Caterers, has a wealth of 22 years experience in outside catering. Last year, the Vassallo Group set up Catergroup, which includes Cateressence, Catermeals and now Catermax – the joint-venture with the Corinthia Group. Catermax is now taking over and consolidating all the outside catering business of the two groups of companies, making Catermax the strongest catering player on the market.

Joining Mr D’Alessandro in the top management structure of Catermax are Andrea Lattughi and Jose da Silva. Mr Lattughi has been responsible for the outside catering division of Corinthia Group for the past 25 years while Mr Da Silva was employed as assistant to the director of operations, sales and marketing of Island Caterers Ltd for 14 years.

Catermax is carefully selecting exclusive venues, including two new, purposely built high-end state of the art halls that will be launched in mid 2011, a project entrusted to a team of renowned architects and designers.

“In addition, we carefully restored and renovated the scheduled Villa Alhambra in Sliema which will also be exclusive to our clients,” said Mr D’Alessandro. Other exclusive venues include Corinthia Hotel St. George’s Bay, Corinthia Palace Hotel & Spa, Castello Zammitello, as well as other innovative venues that will be announced shortly.

Catermax’s offices are situated at The Landmark in Qormi which over the coming months will be transformed into a state-of-the art multi-purpose project.