‘One Compass Welcome’

In October 2008, our ‘One Compass Welcome’ induction programme took the top spot in the John Sainsbury award for Learning and Development, beating Müller UK and The Co-operative at the prestigious Institute of Grocery Distribution (‘IGD’) awards

The IGD is a leading research forum for the food industry, which is dedicated to ensuring best practice throughout the entire supply chain and recognising excellence. Their awards regularly attract entrants from all of the top retailers and food manufacturers.

The award for the 'One Compass Welcome' is a fantastic endorsement of our focus on 'Great People' and recognises our commitment to health and safety and customer service.

From the outset, we were determined to create a project which would make a real difference to people's first days in our UK business and which would better support our managers as they recruited new colleagues. We have achieved an enormous amount with the 'Welcome' so far; giving over 10,000 people a great start to their new roles and a solid framework from which to develop their health and safety and customer service skills.