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Apart from catering for the film and television, Felix United Catering has expanded rapidly, landing an ever-increasing number of corporate contracts. The division's reputation spread after it catered at the launch of the new BMW 3-series in 1998, and its diary is filled with an exciting range of functions.

For soprano Sarah Brightman, Steve Glass (who forsook a career as a professional golfer to head Felix Unite Catering) and his team provided special fare in the star's dressing room, full catering for her crew, and a VIP cocktail party. 

Helmuth Lotti, the extremely popular Belgian tenor, also used the division to meet his culinary needs when he performed in South Africa. 

When the Board of Directors invited 40 guests to their marquee at the South Africa—West Indies cricket test at Newlands (Cape Province) in February, the catering team served a delectable cocktail menu featuring such delicacies as smoked duck breast.

One of the most challenging jobs for the catering division was an eight-week feature film shoot in one of Namibia's hottest and most remote regions. Catering's task was to feed between 60 and 160 people four meals a day—plus snacks—on the set of The Kin. Felix Unite Tented Camps and Catering worked together to set up the infrastructure for crew accommodation, a fully equipped bush kitchen with refrigerated trucks and ice machines. Each night, Catering's team of 15 prepared dinners with a different theme for the cast and crew—quite a challenge over an eight-week stint—but a huge success.

Steve said: "The synergy between the Felix Unite divisions has worked wonderfully. We have catered for Felix Unite Management Development, and at various functions for Chameleon Indabas such as the Young Presidents' Organization weekend on Robben Island. "We wanted to expand the corporate side of the business and it is growing fantastically, so much so that we are opening in Johannesburg."

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