Jan 18, 2007 9:34 AM, from staff and wire reports

Supreme Foodservice AG of Ziegelbruecke, Switzerland, was among the recipients when the Defense Logistics Agency honored 20 industry partners, customers, and individuals with its Business Alliance Awards recently. Supreme Foodservice received the New Contractor of the Year Award.

The Business Alliance Awards recognize those who have demonstrated outstanding efforts to partner with DLA and improve its mission—providing supplies and services to America’s soldiers.

Supreme Foodservice has successfully implemented the first subsistence prime vendor contract to be fully located in a war zone, providing food distribution to all military services in Afghanistan. Supreme has used a combination of ground, helicopter, and air transportation to more than 65 military sites to ensure mission success.

DLA, headquartered at Fort Belvoir VA, provides supply support and technical and logistics services to the United States military services and several federal civilian agencies.