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Admiral Group plc -Top UK companies

 

 

 

Henry Engelhardt, CEO, believes managers should be accessible to all employees and shows his commitment to this by taking frequent informal walkabouts where he visits staff in the call centres. This has the benefit of making Henry accessible to everyone and by allowing Henry to find out if there any problems from the people who have primary contact with our customers.

Put simply, Admiral's philosophy is; People who like what they do, do it better. Happy staff will create happy customers, happy customers will increase profit and increased profit will make happy stakeholders. Happy stakeholders will want to grow the business and the circle starts again. Admiral launched in January 1993, with 50 staff at it's Cardiff office with no customers and it has now 1,500 in Cardiff and is the third biggest car insurer in the UK. Admiral floated on the stock market in September 2004.

Admiral has been listed for the last nine years in the Sunday Times list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For, and for the last six years in the Financial Times list of 50 Best Workplaces in the UK and 100 Best Workplaces in the EU.

With Henry the other key player is David Stevens the Chief Operating Officer of the Company. He is a founder director of Admiral. Initially the Marketing Director. He joined Admiral in 1991 from McKinsey & Co. Prior to working for McKinsey & Co, he worked for Cadbury Schweppes in the United Kingdom and the United States. David has an MBA from Insead.

Tesco - Top UK Companies

Tesco remains my favourite company as it employs 17 000 in Wales and look after employees and customers by investing in the future. I respect the corporate legends David Malpas and Ian Maclaurin Lord MacLaurin who set the foundations for today. Terry Leahy is  now the best CEO in the UK and  Europe.

This week saw strong growth in Asia and the US has helped Tesco compensate for slower growth at home but it is continuing to build and offer customers what they want.

This week it continues to build.Tesco Personal Finance, which offers credit cards and insurance products, added a further 2.2 per cent in annual UK sales. and the company has already opened six new in-store banking centres, with 26 more planned before the end of this year.

The Clubcard launched in 1996 when David Malpas was MD and invested in IT.The company relaunched recently -Clubcard loyalty scheme .As part of the relaunch last month, customers were able to double the value of loyalty vouchers on certain products, and so far 1million customers have taken up the offer.

In Wales Tesco will create 2,500 jobs in the next two years.