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2 Sisters Food Group

2 Sisters Food Group is a West Bromwich, England based chicken meat processing company. Established in 1993 by Chief Executive, Ranjit Singh, as a frozen retail cutting operation, it has through acquisition expanded to cover 13 manufacturing sites in the UK, 1 in the Netherlands, and 1 in the United States. The group employees over 5,000 people, and annual sales now exceed £650 million. It is listed on the Sunday Times Top Track 250. The company has three divisions read more

 

Willmott Dixon Group

Willmott Dixon Group is the UK’s third largest privately-owned capital works, regeneration and support services companies, according to the 2010 Sunday Times Top Track 100 list of private companies. In the same list, the company recorded the best revenue growth for the past year after it saw a 69 per cent jump in sales from £592 million to £999 million in 2009. The company is also committed to sustainable development, with Jonathon Porritt a non-executive director and a target to be a carbon neutral business that sends no waste to landfill by 2012. It came 6th in the 2010 Sunday Times Best Green Companies list and also won Building magazine’s WRAP award for sustainable construction. The CEO of its Capital Works division, John Frankiewicz, is a board member of the UK Green Building Council, which campaigns for a low carbon built environment. read more

 

Vertex

Vertex is a leading BPO and Customer Management Outsourcer. It operates across a wide range of sectors and geographies delivering rewarding customer experiences and valuable client outcomes. Vertex's industry focus is utilities, public sector, financial services, telecommunications and retail/distribution industries where they provide rewarding customer experiences and valuable client outcomes. read more

 

Halcrow Group

Halcrow Group Limited is an engineering consultancy company, based in the United Kingdom. Halcrow is one of the UK's leading consultancies, with a pedigree stretching back to 1868. The UK Based consultancy specialises in the provision of planning, design and management services for infrastructure development worldwide. With interests in transportation, water, maritime and property, the company is undertaking commissions in over 70 countries from a network of more than 90 offices. read more

 

Farmfoods

Farmfoods is a supermarket chain in the United Kingdom. Farmfoods predominately sells frozen food and also grocery items. read more

 

Henderson Group Plc - HGG

Henderson Group plc (LSE: HGG, ASX: HGG) is a British investment management company based in the City of London. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. It is also listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. read more

 

PA Consulting Group

PA Consulting Group (PA) is a global management and IT consulting and technology and innovation organisation with specialist expertise across the defence, energy, financial services, government and public services, healthcare, automotive and consumer goods, telecoms, and transport and logistics sectors and a broad understanding of business. As of 2007 it operates in more than 35 countries, working in both private and public sectors. It has won independent awards and recognition for its client work in financial services, energy, life sciences and healthcare, government and public services, manufacturing, defence, and telecommunications. PA's Report and Accounts for 2005 defines its services as: helping clients to design strategies for growth, achieve effective IT that improves business performance, mobilise human resources, deliver complex programs and major business transformations, and develop breakthrough products and processes. The latter are created at PA's dedicated applied technology facilities at Melbourn, Cambridgeshire, UK, and Princeton, NJ, USA. PA is entirely an employee-owned company. PA has no audit practice and does not form exclusive alliances with third-party vendors or service providers. PA does, however, work in non-exclusive alliances on specific programs when it is in the best interests of its clients. read more

 

William Grant & Sons

William Grant & Sons Ltd. is an independent, family-owned Scottish company which distills Scotch whisky and other selected categories of spirits. It was established in 1887 by William Grant, and is now run by the descendants of the founder. It is the largest of the handful of Scotch whisky distillers remaining in family ownership. "William Grant & Sons" is often abbreviated to "W. Grant & Sons" or just "Grant's", after their leading blended whisky of the same name. The company is the 3rd largest producer of Scotch whisky (10.4% market share) after Diageo (34.4%), and Pernod Ricard. The company's central headquarters are in Strathclyde Business Park, North Lanarkshire. Sales and marketing headquarters are in Richmond, London. The company is a member of the Scotch Whisky Association. The master blender of Grant's is Brian Kinsman, who recently succeeded David Stewart who had been in his post for 47 years, the longest serving master blender with one distiller in the industry. read more

 

A.T. Kearney

A.T. Kearney is a global management consulting firm, focusing on strategic and operational CEO-agenda concerns. It was founded in 1926, and its head office is in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was ranked number 11 "best place to work for" in Consulting Magazine's 2009 rankings. The firm operated within the United States since its founding in 1926, until 1964 when it opened its first international office in Düsseldorf. A.T. Kearney now has 52 offices in 35 countries. read more

 

Warburtons

Warburtons baking firm based in Bolton, England. It is the UK's third biggest bread manufacturer after Allied Bakeries and RHM (British Bakeries), and produces one million bakery products per day. It makes just its own products, no own-label ones. read more