Zest Mixology stirs up a cocktail of festival contracts worth over £100k

A Leeds-based cocktail company has won a contract to provide bars for ten festivals around the UK this year, in a deal collectively worth over £100k.

Zest Mixology is run by entrepreneur Murdo MacLeod, who heads up a team that caters for a variety of events across the UK.

Having experienced a 30% year-on-year growth since the company’s inception, the festival contracts add to Zest Mixology’s portfolio of events for clients including Apple, BMW, Hilton, Volkswagen, as well as national supermarket chains such as ASDA, Tesco and Iceland.

As well as festivals and corporate functions, the company is also working with a wide range of event management companies, as well as private parties, weddings and exhibitions.

To date, Zest Mixology has provided services for over 2500 events since the company launched in 2011.

After catering for eight festivals’ bars last year, Zest Mixology will continue to operate VIP cocktail bars at festivals across the UK, including Reading, Parklife, Blue Dot Download, Wireless festival, Lovebox, Citadel,Wilderness and Yorkshire’s own Leeds festival.

During this festival, the Zest Mixology team will be running the Relentless bar

Murdo MacLeod, Zest Mixology managing director, commented: “This year we have gained our biggest festival contracts to date which demonstrates how far we have come in just five years and I have ambitious plans to double the size of the business within the next year.”