Skillstories

Employers

Moy Park

Based at Craigavon, N.I., and with further sites in Northern Ireland, England, and France and Holland, Moy Park supplies own label and customer branded chicken products to leading retail and foodservice customers across Europe.

Whitbread Group PLC

Whitbread PLC is the UK’s leading hospitality company

Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Limited

J Sainsbury plc is a leading UK food retailer with interests in financial services.

npower Operations Customer Services

RWE npower is the UK's largest electricity supplier, and has around 12,000 employees across 60 sites. RWE npower generates electricity and supplies gas, electricity and related services to around 6.8 million customers through its retail business npower. The company operates and manages a flexible portfolio of power stations, and is a market leader in renewable energy development. The Operational Customer Services function is located in 5 contact centres in the North East of England and currently employees around 2200 staff.

Bodycare Stores

Bodycare Stores is a health and beauty retailer with 1,600 employees and a turnover of £123 million.

Serco Group plc

Serco is an international support services business that operates within a public sector ethos. It employs over 48,000 people across the world, including approximately 32,000 in the UK, and reported revenues in 2006 of £2.4 billion. Its work includes running hospitals, leisure centres and prisons. It operates trains, provides support to military bases; manages air traffic services and education services. All of Serco's 600+ UK business units are managed on a devolved basis.

Ford Motor Company Ltd

International & technological competitiveness places substantial pressure on the UK automotive industry, requiring constant cost reductions & incentives to source from low cost, low-skilled manufacturers abroad. FMC in Britain has restructured to reduce cost & realign the business to focus on powertrain engineering & manufacture; commercial vehicles engineering & manufacture; environmental technologies.

Fowler Welch Coolchain

Fowler Welch-Coolchain Ltd. is a leading provider of logistics services in the FMCG sector including

Boots UK Ltd

Boots has been producing health and beauty products from its UK manufacturing plant in Nottingham since 1935, creating many familiar household brands. Nottingham is also a key logistics centre, distributing Boots products to retail stores across the UK.

McDonald’s

McDonald's Restaurant's Ltd operates over 1,200 restaurants and has 67,000 staff, in the UK.

First Group (UK Bus Division)

Carrying 2.8 million passengers daily, First UK Bus operates in more than 40 UK towns and cities and