The Top Employers Institute is the global authority on certifying excellence in employee conditions, with a certification programme that enables organisations to assess and improve their workplace environment.
Established in 1991, the Top Employers Institute has certified more than 1,500 organisations in 118 countries. These certified Top Employers positively impact the lives of more than 6,000,000 employees globally.
As an independent HR certification company, the Top Employers Institute assesses participants through its global HR best practices survey. To achieve certification, organisations must successfully meet the required minimum standard as set out by the authority.
Top Employers are organisations of the highest calibre that have worked hard to create, implement and progress their people strategies. They provide an outstanding experience through strategic and thoughtful workplace programmes, which create an environment that empowers and develops employees.
Here are the employers that made its final cut:
Abbott
A global health technology company employing 99,000 staff, Abbott is committed to helping people live their best possible life through the power of health.
AbbVie
AbbVie is a global biopharmaceutical company committed to developing innovative advanced therapies for some of the world’s most complex conditions across four primary therapeutic areas: immunology, oncology, virology and neuroscience.
AkzoNobel
AkzoNobel has been setting the standard in colour and protection since 1792. Its world-class portfolio of brands – including Dulux, International and Sikkens – is trusted by customers around the globe.
Alcon Eye Care UK Ltd
Alcon provides innovative products to address the growing eye care demands of the future and supports the full lifecycle of patient needs, to enhance the quality of people’s lives.
Alphabet (GB) Ltd
Part of the BMW Group, Alphabet is a leading provider of leasing and mobility services. Helping organisations achieve their fleet and business travel requirements, while keeping employees on the move.
Amadeus IT Services UK Ltd
With a purpose to shape the future of travel, Amadeus is passionate in its pursuit of better technology that makes better journeys by connecting the entire travel ecosystem.
Asda
Asda is one of Britain’s leading retailers. With more than 584 stores in the UK, over 18 million people shop at Asda stores every week and 99% of UK homes are served by Asda.com.
Avanade UK Ltd
A leading provider of innovative digital and cloud business solutions, delivered through the power of people and the Microsoft ecosystem.
Avon Cosmetics Ltd
A global force for women, with 6 million Avon representatives providing accessible beauty to millions of customers, supported by a workforce of 25,000 associates in more than 50 markets worldwide.
Bentley Motors
The most sought-after luxury car brand in the world.
Bouygues Construction
As a global player in construction and services, Bouygues Construction designs, builds and operates public and private buildings, transport infrastructures, energy and communications networks, helping customers shape a better life.
British American Tobacco UK
British American Tobacco is a leading tobacco group, with brands sold in more than 200 markets. It employs more than 55,000 people and has more than 200 brands in its portfolio.
BSH Home Appliances
BSH Hausgeräte GmbH is the largest home appliance manufacturer in Europe. To be the first choice for consumers worldwide drives the company and its employees.
Bureau Veritas UK
A global leader in Testing, Inspection and Certification (TIC), Bureau Veritas delivers high-quality services to help clients meet the growing challenges of quality, safety, environmental protection and social responsibility.
Canon Europe Ltd
A world-leading imaging company – driven to enrich the lives and businesses of its customers with innovative products, smart digital solutions and services.
CDL
CDL has established its position as a market leader in the competitive retail insurance sector by creating powerful software solutions that deliver competitive and innovative advantage to its customers.
CGI UK
Serving clients from hundreds of locations worldwide, CGI is a leading IT and business consulting services firm focused on being a partner, employer and investment of choice.
CHEP UK Ltd
CHEP is a global provider of innovative supply chain solutions, tailored to the unique business requirements of its customers. It has more than 1,100 employees.
Chiesi
Chiesi owes its continued success to the dedication and hard work of its people to give patients access to innovative medicines that improve quality of life.
Cognizant Worldwide Ltd
Cognizant is one of the world’s leading professional services companies, transforming clients’ business, operating and technology models for the digital era.
DHL International (UK) Ltd
One of the world’s largest international providers of courier and express distribution services. Its global network spans 500 airports in 220 countries, and it moves more than 400m packages each year.
DHL Supply Chain UK
DHL Supply Chain is the world’s leading contract logistics provider, offering specialist expertise within the automotive, consumer, chemicals, energy, engineering and manufacturing, life sciences and healthcare, retail and technology sectors.
Dimension Data
Dimension Data is a global systems integrator and managed services provider for hybrid IT. It brings together the world’s best technology with service support, to help businesses achieve greatness.
East Midlands Trains Ltd
Recognised as the UK’s best performing long-distance train operator, the company delivers more than 470 services daily across the east of England.
EDPR UK Ltd
EDPR is a global leader in the renewable energy sector and the world’s fourth-largest wind energy producer.
Electrolux UK
A global leader in household appliances and appliances for professional use, Elextrolux sells more than 60m products to customers in more than 150 markets every year.
Eni International Resources Ltd
The international employer Eni is one of the world’s largest energy companies. Supporting hundreds of globally mobile professionals during their careers on international assignment all around the world.
ERIKS UK
From simple product supply or repair to fully integrated indirect supply chains or asset management, ERIKS’ multi-product know-how and innovation, coupled with passion, continuously delivers life-long, cost-saving business solutions.
Experian Ltd UK
Experian is the world’s leading global information services company, helping individuals to access financial services, businesses to make smarter decisions, lenders to lend more responsibly, and organisations to prevent identity fraud and crime.
Faurecia UK
As a global leader in automotive technology, Faurecia provides innovative solutions to automotive challenges within its three strategic businesses: Faurecia Seating, Faurecia Interiors and Faurecia Clean Mobility.
Fidessa plc
Fidessa provides exceptional trading, investment and information solutions for the world’s financial community.
FirstPort Ltd
FirstPort is the UK’s largest residential property manager, overseeing 185,000 homes in 3,900 developments. With four decades of experience, its 3,000 employees work with developers, investors, freeholders and resident management companies.
Foster + Partners
Foster + Partners is a global studio for architecture, urbanism and design, rooted in sustainability. Founded in 1967 by Norman Foster.
Goodyear UK
Goodyear is one of the world’s largest tyre companies. Its two innovation centres in Akron, Ohio, and Colmar-Berg, Luxembourg, strive to develop state-of-the-art products and services that set the technology and performance standard for the industry.
GroupM UK Ltd
GroupM is the world’s leading media investment company. It creates competitive advantage for advertisers via its organisation of media experts, who deliver powerful insights on consumers and media platforms, trading expertise, market-leading brand-safe media, technology solutions, addressable TV and more.
Harrods
One of the best-known and respected retail brands in the world, Harrods employs approximately 10,000 people, who serve over 15 million customers a year.
HCL Technologies
A £8.2bn global technology and IT enterprise, turning technology into distinctive competitive-advantage for customers
Heineken UK
Heineken is the UK’s leading pub, cider and beer business and owns 2,700 pubs as part of its Star Pubs & Bars business, employs 2,400 people and has over 20 cider and beer brands in its portfolio.
Homes for Haringey
Homes for Haringey is an arm’s length management organisation, managing more than 21,000 homes on behalf of Haringey council. Established in 2006, it employs over 700 members of staff.
IG
IG is a global leader in online trading that empowers informed, decisive, adventurous people to access opportunities in the financial markets through an award-winning trading platform.
Imperial Tobacco Ltd
Imperial Tobacco Ltd is a market-leading UK tobacco manufacturer, headquartered in Bristol, England.
Informa
One of the world’s leading business intelligence, academic publishing, knowledge and events businesses, Informa serves customers in many different industries, from life sciences to finance, beauty, education, agriculture and telecoms, media and technology.
Infosys
Infosys is a global leader in technology services and consulting, enabling clients in 45 countries to create and execute strategies for their digital transformation.
International SOS
The world’s leading medical and security assistance company, International SOS helps businesses operate globally by helping protect their employees to meet their duty of care.
JD Wetherspoon
JD Wetherspoon owns and operates pubs and hotels throughout the UK and Ireland, employing more than 38,000 full- and part-time staff.
JT International Business Services
Part of the Japan Tobacco group, based in award-winning offices in Manchester, the company provides financial services to JTI locations worldwide.
JTI UK
JTI is a member of the Japan Tobacco Group of Companies, a leading international tobacco product manufacturer.
Konica Minolta Business Solutions (UK) Ltd
Konica Minolta provides digital print, IoT, AI and AR solutions, and delivers consultancy and services to optimise business processes and solutions in IT infrastructure and security, as well as cloud environments.
Kuehne + Nagel Ltd
One of the world’s leading logistics providers, Kuehne + Nagel delivers customer excellence every day.
Lookers
Lookers is one of the UK’s largest motor retailers, offering a wide range of quality and prestige new and used cars, and tailored aftersales services.
Manchester Metropolitan University
Manchester Metropolitan University is the largest campus-based undergraduate university in the UK, with a total student population of more than 37,000.
Merck
Merck is a pioneering and vibrant science and technology company in the pharmaceutical sector.
Mitie Group plc
The UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, Mitie offers a range of specialist services including security, engineering, catering, cleaning, landscaping, energy and property consultancy, and custody support services.
Molson Coors Brewing Co (UK) Ltd
One of the largest global brewers, Molson Coors Brewing Co has a deep heritage in the UK. Its award-winning brands include Carling, Coors Light, Doom Bar, Pravha and the nearly 300-year-old Aspall Cyder brand.
MSD
For more than a century, MSD, a leading global biopharmaceutical company, has been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for the world’s most challenging diseases.
Nice-Pak International
The European leader in the manufacture of wet wipes. With production facilities in the UK and Germany, it produces more than 650m packs per year.
Novartis Pharmaceuticals
A medicines company committed to discovering new ways to improve and extend people’s lives. Novartis products reach nearly 1 billion people every year.
Olympus
A leading manufacturer of optical and digital technology, Olympus is a visionary company that aims to make people’s lives healthier, safer and more fulfilling.
Olympus Surgical Technologies Europe-UK
As a high-tech specialist within the Olympus Corporation, Olympus Surgical Technologies Europe is the development and manufacturing centre for endoscopy, bipolar high-frequency surgery, systems integration in operating rooms and instrument reprocessing systems.
Orange Business Services
Orange Business Services, the B2B branch of the Orange Group, and its 25,000 employees, is focused on supporting the digital transformation of multinational enterprises and French SMEs across five continents.
OVO Energy Ltd
OVO is now the UK’s leading independent energy technology company and supplier and serves nearly 1 million customers with intelligent energy services.
PepsiCo UK
PepsiCo is home to market-leading brands, including household favourites Walkers, Tropicana, Copella, Quaker and Pepsi Max. PepsiCo products are enjoyed in more than 200 countries and territories around the world.
Pfizer Ltd
A biopharmaceutical company applying science and global company resources to innovate to bring therapies that significantly improve patients’ lives through the discovery, development and manufacture of medicines.
Philip Morris International
PMI is designing a smoke-free future, investing more than £3bn in developing better alternatives to cigarettes. It wants to play its part working with the government to achieve the goal of a smoke-free generation.
Phoenix Group
The largest specialist consolidator of heritage life assurance funds in Europe. Its main focus is on closed life fund consolidation where it specialises in the acquisition and management of closed life insurance and pension funds.
QVC UK
Leading global retailer combining the best of live TV, digital and social to offer consumers well-known brands and newly discovered, niche collections. Proud to be a UK Top Employer for six years in a row.
Rider Levett Bucknall UK Ltd
With a heritage spanning two centuries, Rider Levett Bucknall provides global quantity surveying, cost management and construction project advisory services.
RM plc
Whether it’s technology for schools or exam boards, or the educational resources you could find in a primary school, RM helps teachers teach and learners learn.
Roche Diagnostics Ltd and Roche Diabetes Care Ltd
A global diagnostics pioneer, advancing science to improve lives, leading the world in tissue-based cancer diagnostics and in-vitro diagnostics, Roche is a frontrunner in diabetes management.
Roche Products Ltd
Rewriting scientific history for more than 120 years, the company discovers innovative healthcare solutions that help millions of people across the world live longer and have better lives every hour of every day.
Sacker & Partners LLP
The UK’s leading law firm for workplace pension schemes, advising trustees, employers, and providers.
Saffery Champness
The 12th-largest accountancy firm in the UK, specialising in advising owner-managed businesses, entrepreneurs, families and trusts, charities, not-for-profit organisations and landed estates.
Saint-Gobain UK and Ireland
Designs, manufactures and distributes building materials, providing innovative solutions to today’s critical challenges of growth, energy efficiency and environmental protection.
Sandoz Ltd UK
Sandoz is a global leader in generic pharmaceuticals and biosimilars. As a division of the Novartis Group, its purpose is to discover new ways to improve and extend people’s lives.
Sanofi
Sanofi is a global life sciences company, committed to improving access to healthcare and supporting the people it serves throughout the continuum of care.
Santander UK
A financial services provider that offers a wide range of personal and commercial financial products and services to approximately 15 million customers.
SAP UK Ltd
SAP is a market leader in enterprise application software, helping businesses run better. SAP applications and services enable customers to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and grow sustainably.
SAS
SAS is the leader in analytics. Through innovative software and services, SAS empowers and inspires customers around the world to transform data into intelligence.
Securitas Security Services UK
Securitas blends people, technology and knowledge to deliver total protection. It layers six protective services: on-site, mobile, electronic, remote security, fire and safety and corporate risk management to provide intelligent, proactive security.
Starbucks Coffee Company UK
Today, with more than 25,000 stores around the globe, Starbucks is the premier roaster and retailer of specialty coffee in the world.
Tata Consultancy Services
Tata Consultancy Services is an IT services, consulting and business solutions organisation that has been partnering with many of the world’s largest businesses in their transformation journeys for the past 50 years.
Travis Perkins plc
The UK’s leading supplier of materials to the building and construction and home-improvement markets. The group operates 20-plus businesses from more than 2,000 sites across the UK and employs more than 28,000 people.
UST Global Pvt Ltd
UST Global is a leading digital technology solutions company that offers sophisticated computing and digital services to 1,000 global organisations, in alignment with its mission of transforming lives.
Valeo UK
A global automotive industry supplier focused on design, innovation and the reduction of CO2 emissions.
Vauxhall Motors
Vauxhall Motors started manufacturing cars in 1903. More than 100 years later, as one of Britain’s most familiar and loved automotive manufacturers, its philosophy remains the same: building vehicles that are relevant for all.
Virtusa UK
Virtusa Corporation is a global provider of digital business transformation, digital engineering, and information technology (IT) outsourcing services that accelerate the journey of its clients to their digital future.
Weightmans LLP
A Top 45 UK law firm with seven offices, a turnover of £97.1m and more than 1,300 employees.
Whirlpool Corporation
The leading major home appliance company, with $21bn sales, 92,000 employees and 70 manufacturing and technology research centres worldwide.
Whitbread
Whitbread is the UK’s leading hotel operator with more than 35,000 employees who are passionate about making everyday experiences special for our millions of customers both in the UK and overseas.
Wythenshawe Community Housing Group
A housing association responsible for the management of almost 14,000 homes, whose vision is creating communities where people choose to live and work, having pride in their homes and who value the services.
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