2011 Sponsors
We wouldn't be able to put on much of a show without our sponsors. They all have a real passion for exceptional graduate recruitment – read their stories here.
Arcadia Group
Sponsoring – Hospitality, leisure and tourism
Arcadia Group is the UK's largest privately owned fashion retailer with more than 2,500 outlets. We own seven of the high street's best-known fashion brands – Burton, Dorothy Perkins, Evans, Miss Selfridge, Topman, Topshop and Wallis – along with shopping concept Outfit.
Each of our brands are unique with their own sub-culture and personality. That said, there are some attitudes and behaviours that are common to all our people. We are commercial, passionate, driven by success, focused on our customers and embrace responsibility for our decisions.
We're always on the lookout for the brightest and most talented graduates to join our team, and offer exciting career opportunities across a wide variety of areas such as buying, merchandising, distribution, finance and HR.
We recognise that developing the right knowledge, skills and behaviours in our people is vital to our success, and our graduate opportunities are no exception to that. The opportunities for graduates to develop their career are unrivalled; they can move between brands and roles without changing employer in the world's most dynamic and faced-paced industry.
DHL
Sponsoring – FMCG
DHL Exel Supply Chain is the world's number one contract logistics provider. By combining with its sister divisions, DHL Global Forwarding, DHL Freight, DHL Express, and DHL Global Mail, it employs around 520,000 people and provides end-to-end supply chain solutions – from consultancy, design and sourcing through to, warehousing, assembly and distribution, value added services and lead logistics provider services – across more than 220 countries and territories worldwide. We are looking for creative, entrepreneurial graduates who will become our future leaders and our Graduate Program offers progressive and varied career opportunities within a dynamic company with a strong global brand image.
McDonald's
Sponsoring – Retail
McDonald’s Restaurants Ltd is the largest global food services retailer with over 30,000 restaurants across the world and almost 1,200 restaurants in the UK.
In the UK McDonald’s and its franchisees employ over 80,000 employees, 60% of whom are under 21. With 95% of its management teams starting as hourly paid staff and 50% of senior executives starting out working in restaurants, there is real scope for progression and career advancement.
In recent years the company has redefined and reclaimed the term ‘McJob’, along with gaining awarding body status and offering a suite of vocational qualifications.
Recipients of ‘Investors in People – Gold Status’ and a Top 50 Best Workplace for the past four years have recognised the companies ability to drive employee engagement. This, along with diversification of the menu, restaurant re-imaging and a strong commitment to the communities they do business in allows the corporation continual growth.
Teach First
Founder sponsor
Teach First is a powerful social change initiative aimed at tackling educational disadvantage in challenging schools around the UK. Teach First harnesses the energy and enthusiasm of exceptional graduates to provide leadership and motivation to students in schools, at the same time as transforming those graduates into inspiring leaders ready to excel in management careers. It's a two-year programme with an ongoing engagement to further the Teach First mission through the Ambassador network.
